Published 24 June 2015 Rice in Japan. Photo: Kazuhiko Kobayashi The rapidly rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect plants’ absorption of nitrogen, which is the nutrient that restricts crop growth in most terrestrial ecosystems. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have now revealed that the concentration of nitrogen in plants’ tissue is lower in air with high levels of car

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/increased-carbon-dioxide-levels-air-restrict-plants-ability-absorb-nutrients - 2025-02-05

Published 9 June 2015 Photo: Göran Wallin, University of Gothenburg The photosynthesis of tropical species in montane rain forest is very sensitive to high temperature which means high-altitude rain forests are particularly under threat by global warming. This has been shown by researchers from the University of Gothenburg in a study published in the journal New Phytologist. An increase in tempera

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/tropical-montane-rain-forests-sensitive-temperature-increase - 2025-02-05

Published 25 June 2015 The SRA evaluation, new publications in Science and Global Change Biology, researchers in media, and much more. Find the latest MERGE newsletter here - and sign up for the MERGE e-mail list and get all MERGE related news. Among the headlines are:Continuing the journey - Markku Rummukainen sums up the evaluation of the SRA'sIncreased carbon dioxide levels in air restrict plan

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Published 4 September 2015 Clouds, Flickr, Mike King On November 16-17 the 1st Nordic Chapter Risk Conference will be held in Lund. The topic is The Future of Risk Analysis in the Nordic Countries. The conference is open to all researchers, practitioners and policy makers that are working with or are interested in risk research and education. The Nordic Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis in

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Published 28 October 2015 Sun over the NEEM research station in Northern Greenland. Photo by: Raimund Muscheler Solar storms and the particles they release result in spectacular phenomena such as auroras, but they can also pose a serious risk to our society. In extreme cases they have caused major power outages, and they could also lead to breakdowns of satellites and communication systems. Accord

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/traces-enormous-solar-storms-ice-greenland-and-antarctica - 2025-02-05

Published 20 September 2015 European Trend Atlas of Extreme Temperature and Precipitation Deliang Chen, MERGE researcher at the University of Gothenburg, along with colleagues from four other European universities have published a book that shows the development of European extreme weather for the period 1801-2000. It has involved a huge amount of work to collect and analyse all the meteorological

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/europes-extreme-weather-over-200-years-presented-new-book - 2025-02-05

Published 9 November 2015 Africa is very vulnerable to climate change. However, challenges remain in understanding the full set of climate impacts for the region. Improved climate models may help contribute to solutions for reducing vulnerability. A step in the right direction, according to the researchers Minchao Wu and Markku Rummukainen, is to incorporate into todays climate models how regional

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/improving-climate-models-reduce-vulnerability - 2025-02-05

Published 9 November 2015 Most African countries contribute only marginally to the increase of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The impact varies across the continent and also within individual countries. An improved set of data increases the possibilities for evaluating future risks

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/africas-vulnerable-ecosystem - 2025-02-05

Published 4 December 2015 Deliang Chen, photo: University of Gothenburg Professor Deliang Chen has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. Professor Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg and PI in MERGE, has been elected Fellow of TWAS, the world academy of sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries. H

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-new-fellow-twas-world-academy-sciences - 2025-02-05

Published 4 December 2015 Markku Rummukainen. Photo: Lund University Right now Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, is in Paris for the COP21. His role is with the Swedish climate negotiation delegation and the EU’s negotiation organisation as a science expert. Read an interview with Markku about his thoughts on what is needed to reach the 2 degree goal. While limiting the global mean warming

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/early-action-and-cooperation-reach-2-degree-goal - 2025-02-05

Published 21 December 2015 New data presented by researchers at Lund University and others in the journal Oceanologia show that the air along the coasts is full of hazardous nanoparticles from sea traffic. Almost half of the measured particles stem from sea traffic emissions, while the rest is deemed to be mainly from cars but also biomass combustion, industries and natural particles from the sea.

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sea-traffic-pollutes-our-lungs-more-previously-thought - 2025-02-05

Published 30 November 2015 On 11-12 November, the MERGE community was invited to Hotel Skansen in Båstad, Sweden to discuss the future of MERGE. Find the presentations from the meeting here. 11 November12.00 – 13.00 Lunch and registration13.00 – 13.05 Introduction13.05 – 13.35 Overview of the Horizon 2020 CRESCENDO project and CMIP6Paul Miller, Lund University13.35 – 14.05 - Palaeoclimate studies

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/presentations-merge-autumn-meeting-2015 - 2025-02-05

Published 29 January 2016 Photo: SLU FORMAS will give five information meetings during February and talk about their open call. For more information about a specific meeting and regional activities, see contact information under each meeting below. The call will be published on Formas webb page on March 3: www.formas.se/ February 11, 13.00 -15.00, SLU Alnarp Location: Crafoordsalen, Alnarp, see bu

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/five-information-meetings-about-formas-open-call-2016 - 2025-02-05

Published 5 February 2016 Behnaz Pirzamanbin PhD student Behnaz Pirzamanbin has been awarded twice for the paper "Modelling Spatial Compositional Data: Reconstructions of past land cover and uncertainties", both as winner and honorary mention. Congratulation to Environmental Science PhD student Behnaz Pirzamanbin and MERGE colleagues, who has been awarded twice for the paper Modelling Spatial Comp

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/two-awards-phd-student-paper - 2025-02-05

Published 9 February 2016 Professor Deliang Chen, seen on the Tibetan Plateau. The Tibetan Plateau has long been seen as a “hotspot” for international environmental research, and there have been fears that water supplies in the major Asian rivers would drastically decline in the near future. However, new research now shows that water supplies will be stable and may even increase in the coming deca

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/water-supplies-tibet-set-increase-future - 2025-02-05

Published 31 March 2016 Photo: Pixabay On 28-29 April the 2016 MERGE Spring Meeting will take place in Norrköping, focusing on CMIP6 and EC-Earth. Sign up before 12 Apri! On 28-29 April the 2016 MERGE Spring Meeting will take place in Norrköping, focusing on CMIP6 and EC-Earth. MERGE researchers have been actively contributing to EC-Earth developments ahead of CMIP6 experiments with EC-Earth. The

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Published 30 March 2016 Erik Swietlicki ACTRIS is the European Research Infrastructure for the observation of Aerosols, Clouds and Trace gases. On 10 March 2016, it was accepted as one of the EU’s strategically important research infrastructures by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures, ESFRI. Six new areas have been defined as especially important for the European research soci

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/swedish-researchers-build-new-european-infrastructure-atmospheric-research - 2025-02-05

Published 28 April 2016 Apply to ClimBEco research school before May 16! Interested in interdisciplinary perspectives on climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing world? The application is now open for participation in the two-year research school: ClimBEco. Opportunity for PhD students interested in interdisciplinary perspectives on climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services in

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/call-applications-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2016-2018 - 2025-02-05

Published 30 May 2016 As demography changes, more and more people will be affected by forest fires study shows. Photo: André Bessa In many parts of the world, grass and forest fires pose a threat to animals and humans. According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, while climate change is likely to cause more and larger fires, in the future, more and more people will become directly affe

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/demographic-changes-increase-risk-natural-fires - 2025-02-05

Published 16 June 2016 Photo: Pixabay Welcome to a workshop to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE, August 22-24. Sign up by June 23rd! The workshop will start just before lunch on August 22 and stop in the early afternoon on August 24.The aim of the workshops is to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE. Sp

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sign-workshop-aerosol-climate-interactions - 2025-02-05