Trying to understand and model the ecosystem development or future climate without understanding the basic physical controls can be compared to driving a car without knowing how the steering, throttle, and brakes function; even if you had a good overview of the road ahead you wouldn’t know at what speed and in what direction your car would move.
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The NOAAs Arctic Report Card brings together the work of scientists from across the world to report on air, ocean, land and ecosystem changes in the far North and might give a heads-up for Santa if he should be exploring real estate opportunities at the South Pole.
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How has it been to shape this dream and vision of this large, interdisciplinary and unique research project? And why should we explore the northen Barents Sea? Marit Reigstad explains it all on NRK radio.
Read MoreNOAA’s Arctic program launched The Arctic Report Card 2017. The Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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Continuing the Legacy of the first explorers The first explorers to visit the Barents Sea arrived more than 500 years ago, and discovered abundant wildlife and rich fishing on the…
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Text abbreviations you may know, might not be as they seem. As perceptions and understanding of climate and environmental change vary in many ways and contexts, abbreviations do too. Therefore,…
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