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Climate change in the Arctic and the Antarctic was the topic when around sixty scientists from Japan and Norway gathered in Bergen this week.
Some scientists from GFI / BCCR contributed significantly to a MOSAiC Workshop at ASSW in Prague on 4 and 5 April.
A new research finds an increase of strong and extremely strong fronts in summertime and autumn over Europe. If this is a trend or caused by climate change remains to be seen, according to lead author Sebastian Schemm.
In the programme FRINATEK, the research counsil distributed 251 mill. NOK on 32 new research projects. Four of these are for researchers at Geophysical Institute. We also got one of five projects in the programme Polarprog.
Analysis of cyclone tracks and precyclogenesis flow conditions show us that El Niño can shift the preferred cyclogenesis position over the Gulf Stream which influences the cyclone’s track across the North Atlantic. The results are published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
The University of Bergen will this fall and the next spring compete against 4 other universities in Europe in making the best 2 day weather forecasts. Participants will predict maximum and minimum temperature as well as precipitation.
What will the earth’s climate be like in the future? Noel Keenlyside works hard to let us know.
Are you interested in what drives the climate systems and changes? Or would you like to learn more about how to prevent the development of diseases and injuries in workplaces in developing countries? Follow one of our massive open online courses this autumn!
New observations recently published in Nature Communications show that warm deep water also reaches the large Filchner ice shelf in the southern Weddell Sea.
Professor Terje Tvedt criticizes Social Sciences for being “water blind”.
Bergen is world-leading within marine research and climate research.
The NORPAN project gives Norwegian researchers and students the opportunity to visit Japanese and Norwegian institutions.
A dream of the UiB´s climate researchers is about to come true. The rehabilitation of the new headquarters for climate research in Bergen has started.
The Dynamic Meteorology group of the Geophysical Institute has been on a trip to the United Kingdom this autumn.
Four UiB scientists recently received over 80 million NOK from Bergen Research Foundation and the University of Bergen, making world class research possible.
Around 8,000 students from around the world registered for the online course Causes of climate change. More online courses are in the works at the University of Bergen.

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