• Arctic amplification under global warming of 1.5 and 2 °C in NorESM1-Happi 

      Graff, Lise Seland; Iversen, Trond; Bethke, Ingo; Debernard, Jens Boldingh; Seland, Øyvind; Bentsen, Mats; Kirkevåg, Alf; Li, Camille; Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Differences between a 1.5 and 2.0 ∘C warmer climate than 1850 pre-industrial conditions are investigated using a suite of uncoupled (Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project; AMIP), fully coupled, and slab-ocean experiments ...
    • Atmospheric Circulation Response to Short-Term Arctic Warming in an Idealized Model 

      Hell, Momme; Schneider, Tapio; Li, Camille (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Recent Arctic sea ice loss in fall has been posited to drive midlatitude circulation changes into winter and even spring. Past work has shown that sea ice loss can indeed trigger a weakening of the stratospheric polar ...
    • A brief history of climate – the northern seas from the Last Glacial Maximum to global warming 

      Eldevik, Tor; Risebrobakken, Bjørg; Bjune, Anne Elisabeth; Andersson, Carin; Birks, Harry John Betteley; Dokken, Trond Martin; Drange, Helge; Glessmer, Mirjam Sophia; Li, Camille; Nilsen, Jan Even Øie; Otterå, Odd Helge; Richter, Kristin; Skagseth, Øystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12)
      The understanding of climate and climate change is fundamentally concerned with two things: a well-defined and sufficiently complete climate record to be explained, for example of observed temperature, and a relevant ...
    • Buoyancy forcing: A key driver of northern North Atlantic sea surface temperature variability across multiple timescales 

      Risebrobakken, Bjørg; Jensen, Mari Fjalstad; Langehaug, Helene R.; Eldevik, Tor; Sandø, Anne Britt; Li, Camille; Born, Andreas; McClymont, Erin Louise; Salzmann, Ulrich; De Schepper, Stijn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Analyses of observational data (from year 1870 AD) show that sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies along the pathway of Atlantic Water transport in the North Atlantic, the Norwegian Sea and the Iceland Sea are spatially ...
    • Can we use ice sheet reconstructions to constrain meltwater for deglacial simulations? 

      Bethke, Ingo; Li, Camille; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012)
      Freshwater pulses from melting ice sheets are thought to be important for driving deglacial climate variability. This study investigates challenges in simulating and understanding deglacial climate evolution within this ...
    • Changes in atmospheric variability in a glacial climate and the impacts on proxy data: a model intercomparison 

      Pausata, Francesco S. R.; Li, Camille; Wettstein, Justin; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Battisti, David Stephen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-09-11)
      Using four different climate models, we investigate sea level pressure variability in the extratropical North Atlantic in the preindustrial climate (1750 AD) and at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 21 kyrs before present) ...
    • Connecting ocean heat transport changes from the mid-latitudes to the Arctic Ocean 

      Nummelin, Aleksi; Li, Camille; Hezel, Paul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-02)
      Under greenhouse warming, climate models simulate a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the associated ocean heat transport at midlatitudes but an increase in the ocean heat transport to the ...
    • Consequences of future increased Arctic runoff on Arctic Ocean stratification, circulation, and sea ice cover 

      Nummelin, Aleksi; Ilicak, Mehmet; Li, Camille; Smedsrud, Lars Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-01-21)
      The Arctic Ocean has important freshwater sources including river runoff, low evaporation, and exchange with the Pacific Ocean. In the future, we expect even larger freshwater input as the global hydrological cycle ...
    • Control of Barents Sea wintertime cyclone variability by large-scale atmospheric flow 

      Madonna, Erica; Hes, Gabriel; Li, Camille; Michel, Clio; Siew, Yu Feng (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Extratropical cyclones transport heat and moisture into the Arctic, which can promote surface warming and sea ice melt. We investigate wintertime cyclone variability in the Barents Sea region to understand what controls ...
    • Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics in Dansgaard-Oeschger events 

      Li, Camille; Born, Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-11-10)
      The Dansgaard-Oeschger events of the last ice age are among the best studied abrupt climate changes, yet a comprehensive explanation is still lacking. They are most pronounced in the North Atlantic, where they manifest as ...
    • Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: Interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic seas 

      Dokken, Trond Martin; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Li, Camille; Battisti, David Stephen; Kissel, Catherine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-09)
      Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles are the most dramatic, frequent, and wide-reaching abrupt climate changes in the geologic record. On Greenland, D-O cycles are characterized by an abrupt warming of 10 ± 5°C from a cold ...
    • Dynamical drivers of Greenland blocking in climate models 

      Michel, Clio; Madonna, Erica; Spensberger, Clemens; Li, Camille; Outten, Stephen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Blocking over Greenland is known to lead to strong surface impacts, such as ice sheet melting, and a change in its future frequency can have important consequences. However, as previous studies demonstrated, climate models ...
    • ENSO teleconnections in terms of non-NAO and NAO atmospheric variability 

      King, Martin Peter; Keenlyside, Noel Sebastian; Li, Camille (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The validity of the long-held understanding or assumption that El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has a remote influence on the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) in the January–February–March (JFM) months has been questioned ...
    • Insights into the quantification and reporting of model-related uncertainty across different disciplines 

      Simmonds, Emily Grace; Dunn-Sigouin, Etienne; Adjei, Kwaku Peprah; Andersen, Christoffer Wold; Aspheim, Janne Cathrin Hetle; Battistin, Claudia; Bulso, Nicola; Christensen, Hannah M.; Cretois, Benjamin; Cubero, Ryan John Abat; Davidovich, Ivan Andres; Dickel, Lisa; Dunn, Benjamin Adric; Dyrstad, Karin; Einum, Sigurd; Giglio, Donata; Gjerløw, Haakon; Godefroidt, Amélie; González-Gil, Ricardo; Gonzalo Cogno, Soledad; Große, Fabian; Halloran, Paul; Jensen, Mari Fjalstad; Kennedy, John James; Langsæther, Peter Egge; Laverick, Jack H; Lederberger, Debora; Li, Camille; Mandeville, Elizabeth G; Mandeville, Caitlin; Moe, Espen; Schröder, Tobias Navarro; Nunan, David; Sicacha-Parada, Jorge; Simpson, Melanie Rae; Skarstein, Emma Sofie; Spensberger, Clemens; Stevens, Richard; Subramanian, Aneesh C.; Svendsen, Lea; Theisen, Ole Magnus; Watret, Connor; O'Hara, Robert B. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Quantifying uncertainty associated with our models is the only way we can express how much we know about any phenomenon. Incomplete consideration of model-based uncertainties can lead to overstated conclusions with real-world ...
    • Intermittency of Arctic–mid-latitude teleconnections: stratospheric pathway between autumn sea ice and the winter North Atlantic Oscillation 

      Siew, Yu Feng; Li, Camille; Sobolowski, Stefan Pieter; King, Martin Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      There is an observed relationship linking Arctic sea ice conditions in autumn to mid-latitude weather the following winter. Of interest in this study is a hypothesized stratospheric pathway whereby reduced sea ice in the ...
    • Key physical processes and their model representation for projecting climate impacts on subarctic Atlantic net primary production: A synthesis 

      Myksvoll, Mari Skuggedal; Sandø, Anne Britt; Tjiputra, Jerry; Samuelsen, Annette; Yumruktepe, Veli Caglar; Li, Camille; Mousing, Erik Askov; Bettencourt, Joao P.H.; Ottersen, Geir (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Oceanic net primary production forms the foundation of marine ecosystems. Understanding the impact of climate change on primary production is therefore critical and we rely on Earth System Models to project future changes. ...
    • The key role of topography in altering North Atlantic atmospheric circulation during the last glacial period 

      Pausata, Francesco S. R.; Li, Camille; Wettstein, Justin; Kageyama, M.; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-10-18)
      The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 21 000 yr before present) was a period of low atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, when vast ice sheets covered large parts of North America and Europe. Paleoclimate reconstructions and ...
    • Limited Influence of Localized Tropical Sea-Surface Temperatures on Moisture Transport into the Arctic 

      Dunn-Sigouin, Etienne; Li, Camille; Kushner, Paul J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Arctic moisture transport is dominated by planetary-scale waves in reanalysis. Planetary waves are influenced by localized Sea-Surface Temperature (SST) features such as the tropical warm pool. Here, an aquaplanet model ...
    • The link between eddy-driven jet variability and weather regimes in the North Atlantic-European sector 

      Madonna, Erica; Li, Camille; Grams, Christian M; Woollings, Tim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-10)
      This study reconciles two perspectives on wintertime atmospheric variability in the North Atlantic–European sector: the zonal‐mean framework comprising three preferred locations of the eddy‐driven jet (southern, central, ...
    • Linking Instantaneous and Climatological Perspectives on Eddy-Driven and Subtropical Jets 

      Spensberger, Clemens; Li, Camille; Spengler, Thomas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The distinction between eddy-driven and subtropical jets is conceptually important and well-founded based on different driving mechanisms and dominant types of variability. This climatological perspective may be augmented ...