Climate dynamics, paleoclimate, and climate modelling.

Interdisciplinary research in Earth Sciences focused on understanding the dynamics of climate change on a wide range of timescales, including tectonic, orbital and millennial, by using a hierarchy of climate and ice sheet models combined with marine and terrestrial proxy data. 

ResearchGate profile

For an example see the recent Al Jazeera docmentary for one of my field courses:

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/program/witness/2022/4/18/kerims-climate-odyssey-the-climate-change-classroom-on-the-sea

 

For updates see blogg:

http://kerim.b.uib.no/blogg/

Teaching science of climate, weather and glaciology in the field to school children and the general public:

http://turspor.b.uib.no

https://www.ut.no/finn/?types=trip&id=8.1819&type=gruppe

A few media highlights:

https://www.nrk.no/urix/vil-avslore-gronlandsisens-hemmeligheter-1.13042282

http://www.dn.no/meninger/debatt/2014/05/23/Forskning-viser-at/det-svake-punkt

http://www.dn.no/magasinet/2016/08/26/2105/Dokumentar/-jeg-vurderte--slutte-som-klimaforsker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/greenland-is-melting

https://www.nrk.no/urix/norske-forskere-frykter-raskere-smelting-av-gronlandsisen-1.12606608

Causes and Consequences of Climate Change

https://www.uib.no/en/course/SDG213

Interdisplinary course answering to UNs Sustinable Development Goal SDG-13 on Climate Action.

 

Causes of Climate Change

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/causes-of-climate-change/

Online course offereded through Future Learn first offerede 21st of September 2015

 

Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses

www.uib.no/rs/acdc

A yearly summer school offered to advanced PhD candidates and early career scientists focusing on current topics relating to climate dynamics and interdisciplinary research within paleoclimate.

ACDC2022 joint with GRISO: "Past and Future Climate of Greenland"

ACDC2020 + ACDC2021: cancelled due to covid, instead we offerered the "One Ocean Field Course" onboard Statsraad Lehmkhul

ACDC2019: "The Anthropocene"

ACDC2018: "Hemispheric Asymmetry in Climate"

ACDC2014: "The Dynamics of the Greenland Ice sheet", Arctic Station, Disko Island, West Greenland

ACDC2013: "The Dynamics of the last Deglaciation", Nyksund, Vesterålen, northern Norway.

ACDC2012: "Landscapes and Climate", Snøheim, Dovre, Norway.

ACDC2011: "Dynamics of Past Warm Climates", Friday Harbor, Washington State, USA.

ACDC2010: "Ice-Ocean Interactions", MIT FabLab, Lyngen, northern Norway.

ACDC2009: "Understanding the basic state, variability, forcing and stability of the Ocean overturning circulation in the past, present and future", Espegrend Marine Research Station, Bergen, Norway.

The summer schools are supported by SiU and ResClim.

2024

• Isungset, Terje; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Elsner, Frederik et al. (2024). Ice Music Festival Greenland. (external link)
• Maitland, Deron Oshane; Richter, Kristin; Raj, Roshin Pappukutty et al. (2024). Determining sea-level rise in the Caribbean: A shift from temperature to mass control. (external link)
• Kajanto, Karita; Andresen, Camilla Snowman; Seroussi, Helene et al. (2024). Holocene warmth explains the Little Ice Age advance of Sermeq Kujalleq. (external link)

2023

• Gunning, Daniel Francis James; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Van de Wal, Rodecrick S. et al. (2023). On the role of precession in Quaternary glacial cycles. (external link)
• Waelbroeck, Claire; Tjiputra, Jerry; Guo, Chuncheng et al. (2023). Atlantic circulation changes across a stadial-interstadial transition. (external link)
• Kajanto, Karita; Straneo, Fiammetta; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (2023). Impact of icebergs on the seasonal submarine melt of Sermeq Kujalleq. (external link)
• Maffezzoli, Niccolò; Cook, Eliza; van der Bilt, Willem Godert Maria et al. (2023). Detection of ice core particles via deep neural networks. (external link)
• Weiffenbach, Julia E.; Baatsen, Michiel L. J.; Dijkstra, Henk A. et al. (2023). Unraveling the mechanisms and implications of a stronger mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in PlioMIP2. (external link)
• Malmierca-Vallet, Irene; Sime, Louise C.; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako et al. (2023). Dansgaard–Oeschger events in climate models: review and baseline Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS3) protocol. (external link)

2022

• Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Halas, Paul Lucas; Wahl, Sonja et al. (2022). Outreach at the Ice Music Festival in Bergsjøstølen - Greenland and sea level rise. (external link)
• Frank, Thomas; Åkesson, Henning; Fleurian, Basile de et al. (2022). Geometric controls of tidewater glacier dynamics. (external link)
• Straume, Eivind Olavson; Nummelin, Aleksi Henrynpoika; Gaina, Carmen et al. (2022). Climate transition at the Eocene-Oligocene influenced by bathymetric changes to the Atlantic-Arctic oceanic gateways. (external link)
• Pedro, J.B.; Andersson, Carin; Vettoretti, G. et al. (2022). Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic set by sea ice, frontal position and thermocline structure. (external link)
• Pontes, Gabriel M.; Taschetto, Andréa S.; Sen Gupta, Alex et al. (2022). Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift. (external link)

2021

• Bjartnes, Anders; Michelsen, Lars-Henrik Paarup; Skaugen, Håvar et al. (2021). Vippepunkter i klimasystemet. (external link)
• Zhang, Zhongshi; Li, Xiangyu; Guo, Chuncheng et al. (2021). Mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation simulated in PlioMIP2. (external link)
• Bretones, Anais Magali; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Jensen, Mari Fjalstad et al. (2021). Transient Increase in Arctic Deep-Water Formation and Ocean Circulation under Sea Ice Retreat . (external link)
• Oldeman, Arthur M.; Baatsen, Michiel L. J.; Von Der Heydt, Anna S. et al. (2021). Reduced El Niño variability in the mid-Pliocene according to the PlioMIP2 ensemble. (external link)
• Han, Zixuan; Zhang, Qiong; Li, Qiang et al. (2021). Evaluating the large-scale hydrological cycle response within the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (PlioMIP2) ensemble. (external link)
• Rheinlænder, Jonathan Winfield; Smedsrud, Lars Henrik; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes (2021). Internal Ocean Dynamics Control the Long-Term Evolution of Weddell Sea Polynya Activity. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

(Follow link to Cristin for a complete list, or check Google Scholar)

Dokken, Trond Martin; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Li, Camille; Battisti, David Stephen; Kissel, Catherine. 
Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: Interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic seas. Paleoceanography 2013 ;Volum 28.(3) s. 491-502

Zhang, Zhongshi; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Ninnemann, Ulysses S. 
Increased ventilation of Antarctic deep water during the warm mid-Pliocene. Nature Communications 2013 ;Volum 4.

Bethke, Ingo; Li, Camille; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes. 
Can we use ice sheet reconstructions to constrain meltwater for deglacial simulations?. Paleoceanography 2012 ;Volum 27.

Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes. 
Melting of Northern Greenland during the last interglaciation. The Cryosphere 2012 ;Volum 6.(6) s. 1239-1250

Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Risebrobakken, Bjørg. 
Late Eemian warming in the Nordic Seas as seen in proxy data and climate models. Paleoceanography 2011 ;Volum 26

Pausata, Francesco S. Rocco; Battisti, David Stephen; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Bitz, Cecilia M.. 
Chinese stalagmite δ18O controlled by changes in the Indian monsoon during a simulated Heinrich event. Nature Geoscience 2011 ;Volum 4.(7) s. 474-480.

Born, Andreas; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Braconnot, Pascale. 
Sea ice induced changes in ocean circulation during the Eemian. Climate Dynamics 2010 ;Volum 35.(7-8) s. 1361-1371

Raymo, M.E.; Lisiecki, LE; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes. 
Plio-pleistocene ice volume, Antarctic climate, and the global delta O-18 record. Science 2006 ;Volum 313. s. 492-495

Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes; Raymo, Maureen E.; Stone, Peter H.. 
Reorganization of Miocene deep water circulation in response to the shoaling of the Central American Seaway. Paleoceanography 2003 ;Volum 18.(1)

Raymo, M. E.; Nisancioglu, Kerim Hestnes. 
The 41 kyr world: Milankovitch’s other unsolved mystery. Paleoceanography 2003 ;Volum 18.(1)

ClimateNarratives - Multi disciplinary research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council 2022-2026

ice2ice - ERC Synergy grant on "Arctic Sea Ice and Greenland Ice Sheet Sensitivity" 2014-2019

EISCLIM – Eurasian Ice Sheet and Climate interactions: Reconstructing and modelling the climate and ice sheet evolution of the last glacial cycle (NFR POLARPROG 2014-2017)

ClimVoTe – Coupled climate, volcanism, and ocean tectonics in deep time (NFR ISP-GEOFAG 2015-2020)

SiU - Partnership Program with North America 2012-2016

turspor - communication the science of climate, weather and glaciology (SparebankstiftelsenDnB)

DYNAWARM - Dynamics of past warm climates

Past4Future - Climate change – Learning from the past climate

NICE - Network for Ice sheet and Climate evolution 2007-2010

ARECTREC - Arctic records of climate change - dynamics, feedbacks and processes 2007-2011