By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 8 February 2024 Solar energy production can potentially be subject to future geopolitical maneuvering: if a country builds a lot of solar farms (e.g. in a subtropical desert), it can potentially harm solar power production in other countries. Photo: Xin Jin In just two weeks, Zhengyao Lu, Researcher in Physical Geography at Lu

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/60000-views-conversation-two-weeks-whats-secret - 2025-04-25

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 17 April 2024 Lundaforskarna Thomas Pugh och Raimund Muscheler från den naturvetenskapliga fakulteten får ERC Advanced Grant. Foto: Privat/Kenneth Ruona Quaternary geologist Raimund Muscheler and physical geographer Thomas Pugh have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. They will rec

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/two-lund-researchers-and-merge-members-receive-prestigious-eu-grant - 2025-04-25

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 23 May 2024 Opening session of Swedish Climate Symposium 2024 After a year of intensive work by many involved, the Swedish Climate Symposium with its close to 400 participants, has come to an end. Now an evaluation of the conference awaits, but the feeling is that most people experienced it as a successful event. To take the p

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/voices-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-04-25

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 18 June 2024 Sweden is also increasingly affected by unusually intense storms. Here, a flooded playground in the city of Landskrona after the storm "Hans" in August 2023. Have you noticed that when scientists are asked whether or not a particular extreme weather event is due to climate change, they usually respond with somethi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/weather-attribution-climate-scientist-wilhelm-may-helps-us-get-grips-concept - 2025-04-25

Published 20 June 2024 Photo: Rawpixel A new international study shows that ice loss in the Arctic is leading to increased evaporation from Arctic marginal seas, such as the North Sea, and that the increased atmospheric moisture has clear consequences for precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere. It is well known from research that climate change has contributed to a doubling of temperatures in th

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/melting-arctic-sea-ice-affects-precipitation-patterns - 2025-04-25

Published 6 August 2024 A Swedish forest after a fire. Photo: Natascha Kljun (By natascha [dot] kljun [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Natascha Kljun and Julia Kelly) - published 6 August 2024)Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-04-25

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 8 October 2024 Hydrogen, not a greenhouse gas, emitted into the atmosphere will react with and increase other greenhouse gases, e.g. methane, ozone and water vapor, causing global warming. Hydrogen is expected to play an important role in the transition to a climate-neutral society. Although hydrogen is not a greenhouse gas wi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-project-fills-knowledge-gaps-climate-impact-hydrogen-emissions - 2025-04-25

Published 18 June 2014 Photo: Region Gotland Almedalen Week is Sweden’s biggest political meeting place with a week full of seminars, speeches, meetings and get togethers. Some of our MERGE researchers are seen at different events in Almedalen, Gotland this year. Hur anpassar vi Sverige till en varmare värld?When: Tuesday 1 July, 9.00-12.00Patrick Samuelsson, SMHI, is one of the speakersRead more

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-almedalen-week - 2025-04-25

By cheryl [dot] sjostrom [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Cheryl Sjöström) - published 22 October 2024 Summer may be extending longer into the season, but we still have changed the name of our annual meetings in September to Autumn meetings. And this year autumn showed itself in full effect when ClimBEco students arrived by train from the north and the south into Helsingborg on 25-27 September and gett

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-autumn-meeting-2024 - 2025-04-25

Published 22 August 2014 A new study from Lund University has, for the first time, reconstructed solar activity during the last ice age. The study shows that the regional climate is influenced by the sun and offers opportunities to better predict future climate conditions in certain regions. Raimund Muscheler is co-author of the article and is an active researcher within MERGE and BECC. For the fi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/suns-activity-influences-natural-climate-change - 2025-04-25

Published 31 January 2025 El Niño has a history of at least 250 million years. Photo: Zhengyao Lu Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places. Until now, it has been unclear how far back in time the climate phenomenon extends. But in a new study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (P

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/weather-changing-el-nino-oscillation-least-250-million-years-old - 2025-04-25

Published 18 March 2025 Satellite image of Lake Yamzho Yumco in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China – one of the lakes that, thanks to minimal human impact, has not undergone major colour changes. (Photo: Google Earth) Over the last 40 years, the majority of the world’s lakes have changed colour, according to a new study. The research team analysed 32 million satellite observations from over 67,0

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/lakes-worldwide-are-changing-colour-possibly-due-human-impact - 2025-04-25

Published 16 September 2014 On October 6-8 MERGE researchers and PhD students will have the opportunity to meet in Kalmar. Welcome to the MERGE Autumn Meeting in Kalmar 6-8 October 2014.We are looking forward to meet all MERGE researchers in Kalmar for three exciting days of presentations and discussions on our MERGE science. We are now at the end of the first 5-year period of MERGE and at the doo

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/welcome-merge-autumn-meeting-2014 - 2025-04-25

Published 9 April 2025 The locations of the fossil coral synthesis used in this study (magenta circles). The ERSST monthly SSTA variability (s.d.) during 1854–2023 ce is represented by the shaded colours. The black box is for the Niño 3.4 region. El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few years, the tropical eastern Pac

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/consecutive-el-ninos-are-happening-more-often-and-result-more-devastating-new-research - 2025-04-25

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 10 April 2025 Hyltemossa celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Photo: ICOS Sweden On 15 May 2025, scientists, engineers, and environmental stakeholders will gather to celebrate a milestone for Swedish climate research: the 10-year anniversary of ICOS Sweden’s national greenhouse gas observation network; a decade of

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/celebrating-decade-data-icos-sweden-marks-milestone-climate-science - 2025-04-25

By jonna [dot] ahlin [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonna Åhlin) - published 14 April 2025 As Europe moves toward climate neutrality by 2050, forests are at the center of the transition. The ForestPaths project brings together researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders across the continent to co-design forest-based policy pathways that balance climate goals, biodiversity, and economic needs. A re

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/charting-smarter-forest-futures-how-forestpaths-rethinking-forest-policy-europe - 2025-04-25

Published 29 September 2014 Read the MERGE 2014 self-evaluation here. Some of the headlines of the report are: Research output, Strategic value for the society and the business sector and Collaboration. The MERGE self-evaluation is one step of the total evaluation of the strategic research environments. Before summer the final MERGE self-evaluation was sent in, answering 20 questions about the per

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-self-evaluation-2014 - 2025-04-25

Published 8 October 2014 Kalmar Castle and MERGE researchers in the evening sun. On 6-8 October, the MERGE autumn meeting of 2014 was held in Kalmar. The three interesting days focused on the future possibilities of research within MERGE and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we h

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-autumn-meeting-presentations-and-summary - 2025-04-25

Published 5 November 2014 During the past week, 350 delegates from 120 countries have gathered in Copenhagen, to go through and come to a common conclusion about the state of knowledge on climate change. The result was finalized as a synthesis report which states that the human influence on the climate system is clear and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in histor

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/ipcc-synthesis-report-provides-common-conclusion-about-state-knowledge-climate-change - 2025-04-25

Published 1 December 2014 We would like to welcome Franziska Aemisegger, who will be a MERGE guest researcher for the coming two years. For the coming two years, Franziska Aemisegger will be a MERGE guest researcher with a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship (SNSF). In her current research she is studying land-atmosphere interactions in the midlatitude water cycle from a weather systems p

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-guest-researcher-franziska-aemisegger - 2025-04-25