Bjerknes CPU involvement in non-EU research projects

*Last updated: Feb. 2026*

Ongoing non-EU projects

Project Funding Agency Grant ID Period Description
COMBINED Accelerated Arctic and Tibetan Plateau Warming: Processes and Combined Impact on Eurasian Climate NFR 328935 2022-2027 The Arctic and Tibetan Plateau have warmed 2–3 times faster than the global warming rate since the late twentieth century. COMBINED aims to better understand interactions between the rapid warming of these two poles, as well as other remote and regional feedback processes. These complex interactions are poorly understood but potentially have profound climate impacts. In addition, COMBINED will exploit the benefits of the Arctic sea ice initialisation and Tibetan Plateau land-surface initialization to improve the prediction of Eurasian climate from weeks, seasons, to a decade in advance.
Climate Futures Climate Futures NFR 309562 2020-2028 Climate Futures is strengthening society’s ability to navigate an increasing climate risk. We have especially developed quality and use of climate predictions extending from ten days to ten years into the futures. We are working withing four thematic areas: sustainable food production (agriculture and aquaculture), renewable energy, resilient societies and smart shipping.
INES2 Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System modelling phase 2 NFR 350390 2025-2034 A climate model couples specialised computer models for various components of the climate system, such as atmosphere, ocean, sea ice and land surface with vegetation and ice sheets. When the climate model also includes advanced atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles (such as the carbon cycle), it is called an Earth system model. NorESM is the Norwegian Earth System Model and is an essential tool for researchers to be able to simulate the climate in the past, present and future. The model is therefore central to providing the necessary knowledge at a time when the world is facing increasing challenges from climate change, which require immediate measures to develop and apply effective mitigation and adaptation strategies. The infrastructure project INES2 will upgrade NorESM with new and updated functionality by incorporating research-driven development in a nationally coordinated manner.
NorESM4CMIP7 Norwegian Earth System Modeling for CMIP7 NFR 352204 2025-2028 The NorESM4CMIP7 project is an ambitious scientific endeavor aimed at elevating our comprehension of climate dynamics and the Earth system using the new NorESM3 climate model. Driven by the multidisciplinary efforts of the NorESM Climate Modeling Consortium (NCC), this project targets to play a decisive role in the forthcoming international Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP7).
4SICE Towards skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal sea ice prediction NFR 328886 2022-2026 Sea ice prediction on subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) timescales is extremely beneficial for society and is a hot topic of international research. 4SICE will address the challenges in improving model initialisation and reducing model bias to significantly enhance dynamical sea ice prediction on S2S timescales.
PARCIM Proxy assimilation for reconstructing climate and improving model Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research N/A 2022-2026 The main objective of PARCIM is to create the first online millennium-long paleo-climate reanalysis, using modern data assimilation, model, and wealth of paleo-proxy archives.
NorHAB-ML Machine learning for prediction and projection of harmful algae blooms hazards Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research N/A 2024-2026 NorHAB-ML aims to enhance the accuracy of predicting harmful algae blooms (HABs), as well as high biomass bloom that can be harmful to fisheries. The geographic focus lies on the Norwegian coastal and shelf waters.
EO4SA Earth Observations for Sustainable Aquaculture European Space Agency 4000146872/24/I-EF 2025-2026 The EO4SA project aims to enhance the sustainability of the aquaculture industry by providing Earth Observation based products and services.

Completed non-EU projects

Project Funding Agency Grant ID Period Description
BCPU Bjerknes Climate Prediction Unit Trond Mohn Research Foundation BFS2018TMT01 2018-2024 The BCPU is developing skilful climate predictions for these intermediate timescales, bridging the gap between weather forecasting and long-term climate change projections. The BCPU’s primary objective is to deliver the best possible climate predictions for the Atlantic-Arctic sector and surrounding continents from a season to a decade and beyond.
CoRea Coupled reanalysis of the climate back to 1850 NFR 301396 2020-2025 The project CoRea has produced a coupled reanalysis of high importance to the climate research community. The new reanalysis provides an estimate of the climate from 1850 to the present with uncertainty.
INES Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System modelling NFR 270061 2018-2021 The project Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System Modeling (INES) will support the further development of NorESM and help Norwegian scientists also gain access to a cutting-edge earth system model in the years to come.
EUREC4A-OA Improving the representation of small-scale nonlinear ocean-atmosphere interactions in Climate Models by innovative joint observing and modelling approaches JPIs Ocean and Climate N/A 2020-2023 EUREC4A-OA implements ad-hoc innovative observations and a hierarchy of numerical simulations focusing on mesoscale and submesoscale ocean dynamics and the atmospheric boundary layer at scales ranging from 20 m to 1000 km over the northwest tropical North Atlantic. The aim is to advance our knowledge of the phenomenology and representation of air-sea interactions, physical and biogeochemical ocean small-scale non-linear processes in ESMs but also in NWPs, S2Ss and decadal forecasts operational systems.
ROADMAP The Role of ocean dynamics and Ocean-Atmosphere JPIs Ocean and Climate N/A 2020-2023 ROADMAP investigates the influence of North Atlantic and North Pacific ocean surface variability on the extratropical atmospheric circulation, with a focus on high-impact weather and climate extremes under present-day and future climate conditions.