Bjerknes centre for climate research, Centre for climate dynamics, and the Research school in climate dynamics

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1 Bjerknes centre for climate research, Centre for climate dynamics, and the Research school in climate dynamics Tore Furevik!"#$%"&'(%&!)*+,$"&-.#,+*/0&,$&$1"&23"%4#"0&!"#$%"5&& 6#*7"%0*$.&('&2"%8"#& Meeting, Brazil delegation, 31 May 2012

2 Bjerknes centre for climate research

3 Named after Vilhelm and Jack Bjerknes

4 !"#$%&#'()#&*$#(+,$()-./0*#(1#'#0$23((!! Univ of Bergen, UNI Research, Nansen Centre, Institute of Marine Research!! Collaboration since National centre of excellence, !! 100+ scientists, 20+ countries - Past, present and future climate - Observations, theory and modeling!! Largest climate research community in Northern Europe!! Strong national and international visibility - Peer review publications, outreach, conferences, workshops

5 !"#$%&#'()#&*$#(+,$()-./0*#(1#'#0$23(!! International partnerships: USA, Europe, Asia, South Africa,!! Norwegian Earth System Model development. CMIP5 and CORDEX to IPCC!! Largest EU projects on carbon cycle and ocean acidification!! New funding : Centre for climate dynamics!! National research school in climate ( )

6 Science objective, Bjerknes Centre! To understand and quantify regional climate changes in the context of the global climate system! Also: Strong links to climate impact research, e.g. studies on climate effects on ecosystems and societies

7 Research groups!! Past climate changes!! Present climate changes!! Ocean, ice, and atmospheric processes!! Carbon cycle, ocean acidification!! Future climate regional effects Emphasis on integrating models and observations, on combining past, present and future

8 4&*#$&05,&0-(#60-705,&(,+(( 80$*3(92.#&2#'(.&(:,$;0<(.&(=>??((!! BCCR ranked at the top nationally!! Many publications, high impact: Papers cited 2x more often than international average!! The Evaluation Committee has an extremely positive overall impression of the centre!! BCCR can be considered to be amongst the leading international organizations in the field of Climate Change research

9 Centre for climate dynamics

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11 SKD IMMUNITY: Integrated Model-data approach for understanding Multidecadal Natural variability Project leader Odd Helge Otterå (UNI) IMMUNITY integrates new, high-resolution palaeoclimatic time series and instrumental data with simulations (NorESM) in order to explore the long-term climate variations during the last 1500 years

12 SKD PRACTICE: Predictability of Arctic - North Atlantic climate Project leader Tor Eldevik (UiB) PRACTICE establishes a basis for inter-annual to decadal prediction of Arctic/North Atlantic climate

13 SKD REGSCEN: Regionalisation of Climate Scenarios Project leader Bjørn Ådlandsvik (IMR) REGSCEN works on methods for downscaling in atmosphere and ocean and develops a coupled atmosphere-ocean regional climate model on the basis of the WRF and ROMS models. High resolution climate data sets will be produced.

14 SKD DYNAWARM: Dynamics of past warm climates Project leader Camille Li and Bjørg Risebrobakken (UNI) DYNAWARM will improve our understanding of the interactions between the atmosphere, ocean and cryosphere in warm climates. Titanis - Pliocene SST - Pliocene

15 SKD SEALEV: Sea level changes and ice sheets dynamics Project leader Stein Sandven (NERSC) SEALEV works on Greenland ice mass exchanges, thermal expansion, atmospheric forcing and glacio-isostatic adjustment rates in order to increase knowledge of individual processes contributing to sea level changes.

16 SKD BIO-FEEDBACK: Biogeochemical feedbacks in the climate system from processes to large scale effects Project leader Christoph Heinze (UIB) and Richard Bellerby (UNI) BIO-FEEDBACK quantifies biogeochemical feedbacks to climate change and rising atmospheric CO 2 concentrations. The new knowledge will be up-scaled to the regional and global scale in IPCC type climate projections.

17 SKD IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change Assessment report 5 Task force Project leader Asgeir Sorteberg (UIB) IPCC project will support the work for IPCC-AR5 by model development and simulations, analysis of high & low latitude climate variability and change, and contribution to report writing

18 Norwegian research school in climate dynamics - RESCLIM

19 Short background!! 2004: Report from Ministry of Education and Research Commitment to Research!! Fall 2007: Research Council of Norway (RCN) asked to establish national research schools!! Spring 2008: Call from RCN!! Fall 2008: ResClim, awarded 3 MNOK ( USD) per year for 8 yrs!! At present, 70 PhD students, 30 supervisors in school

20 The research training network Nansen-Zhu Centre in Beijing $!%&'('")*+),'-*%./"012) 3/4%12%) Partnership program with North America (SIU) 3"51!6) 7!18"0%1'4) <:%%:2/(%"=%))) $!%&'('")*+) >"2/!*?*64) 9:!;1!6) 7!18"0%1'4)

21 ResClim activities Academic activities!!intensive courses (up to 4/yr)!!International workshops (Twice a yr)!!international summer schools (Once a yr)!!international symposia (Every 2 nd yr) Supporting actions!!research stays & attendance int. conferences!!field work & lab, nationally and internationally!!bi-annual courses on supervision skills Network and evaluation!!all Staff meeting (Once a yr)

22 !!Steering group: 10 members from national partners (UiO, UiT, UNIS, Met, NPI, NERSC, IMR, BCCR, UiB-GFI, UIB-GEO)!!Secretariat (UiB) Organisation Stine Hermansen PhD coordinator (in kind) (in kind) (100%) ( 25%)!!International Evaluation Board

23 International Evaluation Board

24 Academic activities 2011!! General assembly, March 28 - April 1 st, Bergen. 50 participants!! Research writing course, Tromsø, Bergen, and Edinburgh. 6 participants!! Large Scale Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Ocean, 2x1 week, Oslo. 5 participants!! Writing workshop, Bergen. 10 participants!! Polar Marine Sedimentary Environments, Tromsø. 13 participants (co-funded with local research school)!! Advanced Statistics for Climate Research, Bergen. 13 partcipants

25 ResClim summer school Svalbard 2011: Role of sea ice in climate system!!20 lecturers!!50 students!!14 days

26 Summer school on Dynamics of Past Warm Climates. Aug Sep 2011, Friday Harbor, USA.

27 Activities 2012!! March: General assembly The coastal steamer (Hurtigruten). 5 days.!! April & May: Large Scale Turbulence in the Atmosphere and Ocean x1 weeks.!! June: ResClim writing workshop days.!! June: Summer school Beijing: Monsoon climate and teleconnections. 10 days!! August: Advanced Statistics Training for Climate Research days intensive course!! August: ACDC summer school 2012: Landscapes and Climate. 12-days intensive course!! October: Media / Communication course. 4 days.!! October: Course academic writing (2 days)

28 Beijing summer school!! Summer school: Monsoon variability and climate teleconnections (27/6 5/7 2012)!! Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre (NZC)!! Ca 10 lecturers, 40 Students

29 Summer school on Landscapes and Climate. Aug 2012, Snøheim, Rondane. Foto: Sverre Larssen

30 Thanks