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 - 2025-03-05

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 - 2025-03-05

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 - 2025-03-05

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 - 2025-03-05

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 - 2025-03-05

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 - 2025-03-05

Published 27 November 2014 Comparing the first simple climate models with those of today is like comparing a little blurry black and white line drawing with a large, high-resolution full-color photo. Everything has increased dramatically - both complexity, geographical resolution and model datasets. Read the interview with Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE. - The development is quickly movi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/advanced-climate-models-lacks-computing-power - 2025-03-05

Published 10 December 2014 Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. MERGE is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-03-05

Published 25 January 2015 Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate c

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-03-05

Published 5 March 2015 Arctic View, CC Photo: UN, Mark Garten The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system is the name of Wenxing Zhangs thesis, which he defended on February 6 2015. On February 6th Wenxin Zhang defended his thesis The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system. Opponent was Laxmi Sus

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2025-03-05

Published 9 March 2015 ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-03-05

Published 16 March 2015 DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the r

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-03-05

Published 30 April 2015 The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was publish

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2025-03-05

Published 28 May 2015 Photo: Luciana Porfirio Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-03-05

By susanne [dot] sundell [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanne Sundell) - published 13 February 2024 There is now an opportunity for research leaders and other coworkers at the Faculty to participate in seminars on leadership. The series adresses issues that are facing research leaders in their daily work. The Faculty of Medicine has developed a seminar series for research leaders at the Faculty. Th

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/open-seminars-leadership-faculty - 2025-03-05

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 9 February 2024 Nominate for the Prize for Internationalization in Teaching and Learning. Deadline to nominate: February 29. Right now, students and employees can nominate for the Prize for Internationalization in Teaching and Learning. Who would you like to nominate? Read more about the prize, the criteria and how

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/nominate-have-you-or-your-teacher-colleagues-contributed-internationalization-education - 2025-03-05

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 20 February 2024 In about 2 years, Windows 10 will reach end-of-life. This means that anyone who still has PCs running Windows 10 as their operating system will need to update to Windows 11. In order not to risk being without a computer, it may be a good idea to plan for the upgrade already now. How can I tell if m

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/end-life-pc-way-update-windows-10-retired - 2025-03-05

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 14 February 2024 Read more on Staff pages.

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/health-promotion-reimbursement-2023-deadline-29-february-new-date - 2025-03-05

By johanna [dot] erlandson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Johanna Erlandson) - published 15 February 2024 The Board of the Faculty of Medicine (MFS) has held a meeting. The Dean began with a brief introduction to the work of the new Board. This was followed by a presentation of Future Faculty by the association's chairman Anders Rasmussen, and the CFO gave a financial overview and introduction to the

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/report-faculty-board-meeting-february-7 - 2025-03-05

By anna [dot] hellgren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Hellgren) - published 22 February 2024 It´s not a wrap yet. CRC. Photo: Agata Garpenlind. Updated information about ongoing renovations and construction work. During the spring, window and facade replacement is underway at CRC in Malmö and repainting of stairwells in Lund at BMC.Under the "Support & services" page, you will find updated infor

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/window-replacement-malmo-and-repainting-lund - 2025-03-05