11 Dec 2017 – The Nansen Legacy

Relevant news from the Arctic: Nations put science before fishing in the Arctic

By: 11 Dec 201713 Dec 2017

The central Arctic is off-limits to commercial activites for the next 16 years, giving scientist the lead for better understanding an Arctic of environments in change.

Background: Driftwood and ocean currents

By: 11 Dec 201724 Apr 2018

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The Arctic Ocean has been covered by sea ice for several hundred thousand years. However, even the oldest ice floes are less that 10 years old because it continually drifts…

Three Legacy members announced lead authors for the sixth IPCC Assessment Report

By: mvelle68 11 Dec 20174 Jul 2018

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Three of the 19 Norwegian scientists elected as authors to the sixth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are members of the Nansen Legacy. The 6th scientific IPCC report, will be published in 2021 and 2022 and is the most comprehensive and important basis for international climate policy.

Recent publications

Shu Q, Wang Q, Årthun M, Wang S, Song Z, Zhang M, Qiao F (2022) Arctic Ocean Amplification in a warming climate in CMIP6 models. Science Advances 8: eabn9755

Kohler SG, Heimbürger-Boavida L-E, Petrova MV, Digernes MG, Sanchez N, Dufour A, Simić A, Ndungu K, Ardelan MV (2022) Arctic Ocean’s wintertime mercury concentrations limited by seasonal loss on the shelf. Nature Geoscience n/a

Planque B, Aarflot JM, Buttay L, Carroll J, Fransner F, Hansen C, Husson B, Langangen Ø, Lindstrøm U, Pedersen T, Primicerio R, Sivel E, Skogen MD, Strombom E, Stige LC, Varpe Ø, Yoccoz NG (2022) A standard protocol for describing the evaluation of ecological models. Ecological Modelling 471: 110059