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    • Arctic sea ice and Eurasian climate: A review 

      Gao, Yongqi; Sun, Jianqi; Li, Fei; He, Shengping; Sandven, Stein; Yan, Qing; Zhang, Zhongshi; Lohmann, Katja; Keenlyside, Noel; Furevik, Tore; Suo, Lingling (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-28)
      The Arctic plays a fundamental role in the climate system and has shown significant climate change in recent decades, including the Arctic warming and decline of Arctic sea-ice extent and thickness. In contrast to the ...

    • The Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS): Overview and experimental design 

      Tjernström, Michael; Leck, Caroline; Birch, Cathryn E.; Bottenheim, Jan W.; Brooks, Barbara J.; Brooks, Ian M.; Bäcklin, Leif; Chang, Rachel; de Leeuw, Gerrit; Di Liberto, Luca; De La Rosa, Sara; Granath, Eva; Graus, Martin; Hänsel, Armin; Heintzenberg, Jost; Held, Andreas; Hind, Andrew; Johnston, Paul; Knulst, Johan C.; Martin, Maria; Matrai, Patricia A.; Mauritsen, Thorsten; Müller, Markus; Norris, Sarah J.; Orellana, Mónica V.; Orsini, Douglas A.; Paatero, Jussi; Persson, P. Ola G.; Gao, Qiuju; Rauschenberg, Carlton; Ristovski, Zoran; Sedlař, Joseph; Shupe, Matthew D.; Sierau, Berko; Sirevaag, Anders; Sjögren, Staffan; Stetzer, Olaf; Swietlicki, Erik; Szczodrak, Malgorzata; Vaattovaara, Petri; Wahlberg, Nils; Westberg, Maria; Wheeler, Cassie R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-19)
      The climate in the Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on earth. Poorly understood feedback processes relating to Arctic clouds and aerosol–cloud interactions contribute to a poor understanding of the present ...

    • The BLLAST field experiment: Boundary-Layer late afternoon and sunset turbulence 

      Lothon, Marie; Louhou, Fabienne; Pino, David; Couvreux, Fleur; Pardyjak, Erik; Reuder, Joachim; Vilà-Guerau De Arellano, Jordi; Durand, Pierre; Hartogensis, Oscar K.; Legain, Dominique; Augustin, Patrick V.; Gioli, Beniamino; Lenschow, Donald H.; Faloona, Ian C.; Yagüe, Carlos; Alexander, Daniel C.; Angevine, Wayne M.; Bargain, Erwan; Barrié, Joël; Bazile, Eric; Bezombes, Yannick; Blay-Carreras, Estel; Van De Boer, Anneke; Boichard, Jean Luc; Bourdon, Anne; Butet, Alain; Campistron, Bernard A.; De Coster, Olivier; Cuxart, Joan; Dabas, Alain M.; Darbieu, Clara; Deboudt, Karine; Delbarre, Hervé; Derrien, Solène; Flament, Pascal; Fourmentin, Marc; Garai, Anirban; Gibert, Fabien; Graf, Alexander T.; Gröbner, Julian; Guichard, Françoise; Jiménez, Mantonia Antonia; Jonassen, Marius Opsanger; Van Den Kroonenberg, Aline C.; Magliulo, Vincenzo; Martin, Sabrina; Martinez, Daniel; Mastrorillo, Laurence; Moene, Arnold F.; Molinos, Francisco Lendinez; Moulin, Emilie; Pietersen, Henk P.; Piguet, Bruno; Pique, Eric; Román-Cascón, Carlos; Rufin-Soler, Caroline; Saïd, Frédérique; Sastre-Marugán, Mariano; Seity, Yann; Steeneveld, Gert Jan; Toscano, Piero; Traullé, Olivier; Tzanos, Diane; Wacker, Stefan; Wildmann, Norman; Zaldei, Alessandro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10-16)
      Due to the major role of the sun in heating the earth's surface, the atmospheric planetary boundary layer over land is inherently marked by a diurnal cycle. The afternoon transition, the period of the day that connects the ...

    • Current systematic carbon-cycle observations and the need for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system 

      Ciais, Philippe; Dolman, AJ; Bombelli, A; Duren, R; Peregon, A; Rayner, PJ; Miller, C; Gobron, N; Kinderman, G; Marland, G; Gruber, N; Chevallier, F; Andres, RJ; Balsamo, G; Bopp, L; Breon, F-M; Broquet, G; Dargaville, R; Battin, TJ; Borges, A; Bovensmann, H; Buchwitz, M; Butler, J; Canadell, JG; Cook, RB; Defries, R; Engelen, R; Gurney, KR; Heinze, Christoph; Heimann, M; Held, A; Henry, M; Law, B; Luyssaert, S; Miller, J; Moriyama, T; Moulin, C; Myneni, RB; Nussli, C; Obersteiner, M; Ojima, D; Pan, Y; Paris, J-D; Piao, SL; Poulter, B; Plummer, S; Quegan, S; Raymond, P; Reichstein, M; Rivier, L; Sabine, C; Schimel, D; Tarasova, O; Valentini, R; Wang, R; Van, Der,Werf,G; Wickland, D; Williams, M; Zehner, C (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-07-03)
      A globally integrated carbon observation and analysis system is needed to improve the fundamental understanding of the global carbon cycle, to improve our ability to project future changes, and to verify the effectiveness ...

    • Experimental characterization of the marine atmospheric boundary layer in the Havsul area, Norway 

      Christakos, Konstantinos; Reuder, Joachim; Furevik, Birgitte Rugaard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013)
      Offshore wind energy applications depend strongly on an improved knowledge of the physical processes taking place in marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL). In particular the better understanding of the complex interactions ...

    • The global carbon budget 1959–2011 

      Le Quéré, Corinne; Andres, Robert J.; Boden, Tom A.; Conway, Thomas; Houghton, Richard A.; House, Jo I.; Marland, Gregg; Peters, Glen Philip; van der Werf, Guido R.; Ahlström, Anders; Andrew, Robbie; Bopp, Laurent; Canadell, Josep G.; Ciais, Philippe; Doney, Scott C.; Enright, Clare; Friedlingstein, Pierre; Huntingford, Chris; Jain, Atul K.; Jourdain, Charlotte; Kato, Etushi; Keeling, Ralph F.; Klein Goldewijk, Kees; Levis, Samuel; Levy, Peter; Lomas, Mark R.; Poulter, Ben; Raupach, Michael R.; Schwinger, Jörg; Sitch, Stephen; Stocker, Benjamin D.; Viovy, Nicolas; Zaehle, Sönke; Zeng, Ning (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-05-08)
      Accurate assessments of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere is important to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the ...

    • Global carbon budget 2013 

      Le Quéré, Corinne; Peters, Glen Philip; Andres, Robert J.; Andrew, Robbie; Boden, Thomas A.; Ciais, Philippe; Friedlingstein, Pierre; Houghton, Richard A.; Marland, Gregg; Moriarty, Roisin; Sitch, Stephen; Tans, Pieter; Arneth, Almut; Arvanitis, Athanasios; Bakker, Dorothée C.E.; Bopp, Laurent; Canadell, Josep G.; Chini, Louise P.; Doney, Scott C.; Harper, Anna B.; Harris, Ian C.; House, Joanna I.; Jain, Atul K.; Jones, Samantha D.; Kato, Etsushi; Keeling, Ralph F.; Klein Goldewijk, Kees; Körtzinger, Arne; Koven, Charles D.; Lefévre, Nathalie; Maignan, Fabienne; Omar, Abdirahman; Ono, Tsuneo; Park, Geun-Ha; Pfeil, Benjamin; Poulter, Benjamin; Raupach, Michael R.; Regnier, Pierre; Rödenbeck, Christian; Saito, Shu; Schwinger, Jörg; Segschneider, Joachim; Stocker, Benjamin D.; Takahashi, Taro; Tilbrook, Bronte; van Heuven, Steven; Viovy, Nicolas; Wanninkhof, Rik; Wiltshire, Andrew J.; Zaehle, Sönke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06-17)
      Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere is important to better understand the global carbon cycle, support the ...

    • Has a warm North Atlantic contributed to recent European cold winters? 

      Keenlyside, Noel; Omrani, Nour-Eddine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-06-02)
      The rise of global surface temperature waned during the last decade, despite increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. The temperature changes were most pronounced over northern hemisphere land masses during winter (Cohen ...

    • Long-term surface pCO2 trends from observations and models 

      Tjiputra, Jerry; Olsen, Are; Bopp, Laurent; Lenton, Andrew; Pfeil, Benjamin; Roy, Tilla; Segschneider, Joachim; Totterdell, Ian; Heinze, Christoph (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-05-19)
      We estimate regional long-term surface ocean pCO2 growth rates using all available underway and bottled biogeochemistry data collected over the past four decades. These observed regional trends are compared with those ...

    • Melting of Northern Greenland during the last interglaciation 

      Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-11-05)
      Using simulated climate data from the comprehensive coupled climate model IPSL CM4, we simulate the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) during the Eemian interglaciation with the three-dimensional ice sheet model SICOPOLIS. The ...

    • Multi-scale variability of winds in the complex topography of southwestern Norway 

      Jonassen, Marius Opsanger; Ólafsson, Haraldur; Reuder, Joachim; Olseth, Jan Asle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-01-02)
      Multi-scale variability of winds in the complex terrain of southwestern Norway is investigated using up to 20yr of observations from nine automatic weather stations and reanalysis data. Significant differences between the ...

    • North Atlantic storm track changes during the Last Glacial Maximum recorded by Alpine speleothems 

      Luetscher, Marc; Boch, Ronny; Sodemann, Harald; Spötl, Christoph; Cheng, Hai; Edwards, Roger Lawrence; Frisia, Silvia; Hof, Florian; Müller, Wolfgang A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-02-27)
      The European Alps are an effective barrier for meridional moisture transport and are thus uniquely placed to record shifts in the North Atlantic storm track pattern associated with the waxing and waning of Late-Pleistocene ...

    • Resolving the upper-ocean warm layer improves the simulation of the Madden-Julian oscillation 

      Tseng, Wan-Ling; Tsuang, Ben-Jei; Keenlyside, Noel; Hsu, Huang-Hsiung; Tu, Chia-Ying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09)
      Here we show that coupling a high-resolution one-column ocean model to an atmospheric general circulation model dramatically improves simulation of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) to have realistic strength, period, ...

    • A review of air-ice chemical and physical interactions (AICI): Liquids, quasi-liquids, and solids in snow 

      Bartels-Rausch, Thorsten; Jacobi, Hans-Werner; Kahan, Tara F.; Thomas, Jennie L.; Thomson, Erik S.; Abbatt, Jonathan P.D.; Ammann, Markus; Blackford, Jane R.; Bluhm, Hendrik; Boxe, Christopher S.; Dominé, Florent; Frey, Markus M.; Gladich, Ivan; Guzmán, Marcelo I.; Heger, Dominik; Huthwelker, Thomas; Klán, Petr; Kuhs, Werner F.; Kuo, Min H.; Maus, Sønke; Moussa, Samar G.; McNeill, V. Faye; Newberg, John T.; Pettersson, Jan B.C.; Roeselovà, Martina; Sodeau, John R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-02-12)
      Snow in the environment acts as a host to rich chemistry and provides a matrix for physical exchange of contaminants within the ecosystem. The goal of this review is to summarise the current state of knowledge of physical ...

    • The SailBuoy remotely-controlled unmanned vessel: Measurements of near surface temperature, salinity and oxygen concentration in the Northern Gulf of Mexico 

      Ghani, Mahmud Hasan; Hole, Lars R; Fer, Ilker; Kourafalou, Vassiliki H.; Wienders, Nicolas; Kang, HeeSook; Drushka, Kyla; Peddie, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09)
      An experimental deployment of a new type of unmanned vessel is presented. The Christian Michelsen Research SailBuoy, a remotely-controlled surface vehicle, sampled near-surface properties during a two-month mission in the ...

    • Seasonal-to-decadal predictions with the ensemble kalman filter and the Norwegian earth System Model: A twin experiment 

      Counillon, Francois; Bethke, Ingo; Keenlyside, Noel; Bentsen, Mats; Bertino, Laurent; Zheng, Fei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-03-10)
      Here, we firstly demonstrate the potential of an advanced flow dependent data assimilation method for performing seasonal-to-decadal prediction and secondly, reassess the use of sea surface temperature (SST) for initialisation ...

    • Simulations of the Bergen orographic wind shelter 

      Jonassen, Marius Opsanger; Ólafsson, Haraldur; Valved, Aslaug Skålevik; Reuder, Joachim; Olseth, Jan Asle (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-10-10)
      Even though the coast of western Norway is very windy, the centre of Bergen is rather calm. To gain further understanding of this wind shelter, we study the flow in the complex topography of Bergen during two south-westerly ...

    • Snowfall in the Himalayas: An uncertain future from a little-known past 

      Viste, Ellen; Sorteberg, Asgeir (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-06-03)
      Snow and ice provide large amounts of meltwater to the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. This study combines present-day observations and reanalysis data with climate model projections to estimate the amount of snow ...

    • Wintertime cyclone/anticyclone activity over China and its relation to upper tropospheric jets 

      Chen, Lei; Tan, Benkui; Kvamstø, Nils Gunnar; Johannessen, Ola M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-01-16)
      In this study, the wintertime cyclone/anticyclone activity and its variability over China are examined based on the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) reanalysis ...