Proceedings
Harald Yndestad, Lunar-driven Control of Climate and Barents Sea Eco-systems
SCC Volume 2.1. 1. IntroductionHerring periods and cod periods along the Norwegian coast have been known for more than 1000 years. Periods of growth in the fisheries, have formed the basis for settlement, industrialization, economic growth, and wealth. Periods, when the fish disappeared, led to emigration, hunger, and poverty. Over the years, one has questioned…
Jan-Erik Solheim: The Barents Sea Ice Edge During the Last Centuries
SCC Volume 2.1. To figure out what is driving the climate change it is vital to observe long climate series. In this contribution I will report about data collection and analysis of a climate series covering the position of the Ice Edge in the Barents Sea for more than 440 years. A clear sign of…
Frank Lansner: Temperature at the Coast and Inlands
SCC Volume 2.1. We can divide the land climate in two categories: the continental climate with warm summers and cold winters, and the maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters. This is a report of a project where we have analyzed temperature data 1900-2010 from many (thousand) meteorological stations across the world, to figure…
Ole Humlum: Useful Lessons from Earth’s Past Climate
SCC Volume 2.1. Outlining a few past geological events is useful to clarify the overall importance of climatic variations, and to place our perception of modern changes in a broader context. During an interglacial-glacial cycle, lasting for about 100 ka (kilo-years) years and occurringwith fairly regular periodicity since mid-Quaternary about 800 ka ago (Lowe and…
Ronan Connolly: Snow, Ice and Temperature Trends in the Arctic and Antarctic
SCC Volume 2.1. The term “cryosphere” refers to the frozen water regions on the Earth: e.g., glaciers, snowcovered regions, sea ice and permafrost regions. Glaciologists define an “ice age” for the Earth as periods where permanent ice sheets are present in both hemispheres. Therefore, technically, since there are permanent ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica,…
Nils-Axel Mörner: The Gulf Stream Beat
SCC Volume 2.1. This talk is devoted to the science of the Oceans with special reference to the Gulf Stream Beat. Forcing of the ocean circulation system is controlled by the planetary beat on the Sun, Moon, and the Earth. The sea is not at all in a rapidly rising mode. The ocean circulation can…