Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research

The Bjerknes Centre is a collaboration on climate research, between the University of Bergen, NORCE, the Institute of Marine Research, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre.

"A vital part of our commitment to Agenda 2030!"

The SDG213 course sets out to teach a new generation to tackle the challenges of climate change.

ICOS strengthening European measuring cooperation

UK now shares responsibility with Norway for developing greenhouse gas measurements for oceans.

A warm period is occurring across the whole world for the first time in at least 2000 years

The cold and warm climatic phases of the past 2000 years were not, as previously assumed, global phenomena. The climate varied greatly from region to region. That’s according to a study by the University of Bern that has just been published in Nature. In contrast to earlier times, current, anthropogenic climate change is occurring across the whole world at the same time.

Can we trust statistical predictions?

Using statistics of the past to predict the future can fail if associations change. Erik Kolstad writes about his new study of Barents-Kara sea ice and European winter weather.

A Lego Ninja has landed on Greenland

What do you do when you going into the field for four weeks, with two children at home. You bring some Lego, of course!

Eystein Jansen is a new board member of the European Research Council

ERC is the Champions League of research. The council commandeers 13 billion Euro for scientific projects in the EU area.

Going to Greenland to interpret 100.000 year old ice

SNOWISO field season started at the EastGRIP camp, on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Ocean currents shape the weather

The Gulfstream makes northern Europe warmer by transporting heat. This is well known. New research shows that the sea surface temperature also affects storm tracks as far away as the Pacific.

Let’s Start Teaching Scientists How to Withstand Attacks on Fact

"Adherence to the scientific method is, in itself, good citizenship," writes Øyvind Paasche and Henning Åkesson in Eos.

NEWS ARCHIVE

Current climate change in a broader context.