Climate answers by scientists
The Bolin Centre receives climate-related questions from different parts of society. The centre represents a unique combination of knowledge. We want to be accessible and offer scientific answers.
Do you have a question? Ask our climate experts below, or contact bolin@su.se.
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Within the centre is a unique combination of collected knowledge which is a resource for society. We want to be accessible to society and offer scientific answers.
Climate modelling and extreme events
Frederik Schenk, Rossby Centre, SMHI and Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University.
Email: frederik.schenk@geo.su.se
Climate modelling, abrupt climate change, paleoclimate, Gulfstream, ice age climate, extreme events, storminess, heatwaves, and droughts.
Climate change on ice-age scale
Richard Gyllencreutz, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University.
Email: richard.gyllencreutz@geo.su.se
Climate change on ice-age scale, geophysical methods, sea floors and sediments.
Climate change from a geological perspective
Alasdair Skelton, Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University.
Email: alasdair.skelton@geo.su.se
General questions on climate change and the carbon cycle. Specific questions on climate change from a geological perspective.
Ancient ecosystem and fossil pollen
Natasha Barbolini, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University.
Email: natasha.barbolini@su.se
Deep-time paleoecologist who uses the fossil pollen record to reconstruct ancient ecosystems.
Climate sensitivity on earth
Thorsten Mauritsen,Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University.
Email: thorsten.mauritsen@misu.su.se
Climate sensitivity and how it affects precipitation, ocean and atmosphere circulations, and regional changes (e.g., in the Arctic). Lead author of the Sixth IPCC report (AR6).
Ocean circulation and climate
Léon Chafik, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University.
Email: leon.chafik@misu.su.se
North Atlantic Ocean circulation, variability and climate.
Aerosols, clouds and their relation to climate, and climate sensitivity
Frida Bender, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University.
Email: frida.bender@misu.su.se
Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions on large scale; in models (primarily GCMs) and in observations (primarily satellite).
Atmospheric processes and water
Daniel Schlesinger, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University.
Email: daniel.schlesinger@aces.su.se
Focus on water in the context of atmospheric processes, cloud microphysics and aerosol-cloud interactions.
Aerosols and climate
Impacts of aerosol particles
Sophie Haslett, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University.
Email: sophie.haslett@aces.su.se
Research focused on the composition and impacts of aerosol particles.
Aerosols, clouds, climate change and feedbacks
Paul Glantz, Department of Environmental Science, Stockholm University.
Email: paul.glantz@aces.su.se
Trends in aerosols, radiation and warming over Europe. Arctic amplification and feedback mechanisms.
Ice sheets, glaciers and cryosphere
Nina Kirchner, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University.
Email: nina.kirchner@natgeo.su.se,
Ice-ocean interaction at marine ice margins in order to improve reconstructions of ice sheet complexes and their dynamics.
Coupled human–environment system
Zahra Kalantari, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University.
Email: zahra.kalantari@natgeo.su.se
Nature-based solutions for sustainable land-, water- use management and adaptive land-use planning for decision support, vulnerability assessment to water-related disasters and conflicts, and regional and global hydrology and water resources issues and climate change impacts.
Major mass extinction events
Chris Mays, The Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Email: chris.mays@nrm.se
Polar ecosystems during global greenhouse intervals. Major mass extinction events, their associated climatic changes and their impacts on plants and animals.
Climate history and human societies
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Department of History, Stockholm University
Email: fredrik.c.l@historia.su.se
Climate history of the past two millennia and the impacts of past climate variability on human societies.
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- Svante Arrheniusväg 8 C, Geohuset
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Last updated: April 3, 2023
Source: Bolin Centre for Climate Research