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Since the beginning of March, the German artist Katrin von Lehmann has found her place in Asgeirs old office in the GFI building. She will visit the GFI and the BCCR until the end of April. She has earlier visited the Max Planck Institute and the Observatory Lindenberg near Berlin.
NORCOWE has released its annual report for 2013
The Director-General og UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has confirmed that she will speak at the conference on the UNESCO 1972, 2003 and 2005 CONVENTIONS: SYNERGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT in Bergen.
A recent Bjerknes study shows that the Gulf Stream’s Arctic limb is constrained by its heat transfer from the south.
Over the last half-century, high performance computing has proved itself as essential a tool for the earth sciences as the weather balloon and the rock hammer.
Outhreach is becoming an increasingly important yardstick for the relevance of scientific research.
Jacob Bjerknes, the father of modern weather forecasting, suggested a connection between European weather and temperatures in the North Atlantic. Fifty years later, the Bjerknes Centre in Bergen helps to prove that Bjerknes was right in his prediction.
Report from Earth Science Women's Network (ESWN) workshop on networking and communication skills.
Researchers now know that the Gulf Stream is not only driven from the south, but also drawn northward by Arctic winds.
A recent study by the PhD student Sigrid Lind shows that the northwest Barents Sea warmed substantially during the last decades.
For the first time, an obligatory student seminar for the course Mesoscale Dynamics was held in one of the UiB cabins in Ustaoset on the Hardangervidda.
Kick-off for CARBOCHANGE: On 8-11 March, 80 scientists from Europe, North America and Africa will gather in Bergen, for the official launch of CARBOCHANGE.
Professor Ilker Fer is leading a new project who is granted more than 10 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway for research on the Gulf Stream.
Pursuing its task for the exploitation of offshore wind energy as a natural sustainable energy source, NORCOWE bought two systems for measuring turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer.
Can weather forecasts be used to predict diseases such as malaria? UiB researchers cooperate with Ethiopian institutions in an attempt to find out.
18 Norwegian researchers have been selected to contribute to the preparation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s fifth assessment report.
The ice cover in the Arctic has decreased dramatically in recent years. Norwegian researchers have discovered that changes in air circulation patterns create winds that push away the ice.
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