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Measuring the wind (22.01.2019)

Floating wind turbines keep getting bigger, giving us more energy. A UiB-project will measure the wind's capabilities in an entirely new fashion, paving the way for more efficient wind energy at sea.

Sorting out a miss-forecast (18.01.2019)

Even though weather forecasts have become very good over the last decades, you can sometimes be waiting for snow that never falls. A new study searches for the origins of an erroneous forecast.

Causes of abrupt climate change (18.01.2019)

What caused abrupt climate swings known as the Dansgaard-Oeschger events of the last ice age?

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Getting a better grip of Asia’s water tower (07.01.2019)

Almost one-fifth of the world’s population depends on rivers coming from the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Yet, only one in a thousand glaciers and lakes in this region have monitoring stations and constraints on the hydrological cycle are poor, Hans Christian Steen-Larsen and colleagues writes in a comment in Nature.