Ellen Viste

Climate change in the Arctic and the Antarctic was the topic when around sixty scientists from Japan and Norway gathered in Bergen this week. 

MEET OUR YOUNG RESEARCHERS: When Svetlana Sorokina’s mother calls from Siberia and complains about the cold, Svetlana knows one thing: I has probably been unusually warm in the Arctic.
 

Without understanding how the ocean and atmosphere interact, we cannot predict climate variations for the coming decade, says Marius Årthun. 

Whether you want to predict the weather tomorrow or the climate in ten years, you’ll have to know what it’s like today. Yiguo Wang combines observations and models to find out where to start. 

Carina Bringedal studies the role of the winds in the ocean circulation at the entrance to the Norwegian Sea.