Published 23 May 2017 A new article on impacts of land use on climate and ecosystem productivity over the Amazon and the South American continent has been published by Minchau Wu and a number of other MERGE researchers. The article was published in Environmental Research Letters, Volume 12, Number 5. Abstract:The Amazon basin is characterized by a strong interplay between the atmosphere and vegeta

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/impacts-land-use-climate-and-ecosystem-productivity-over-amazon-and-south-american-continent - 2025-04-15

Published 7 November 2017 The scientific programmer will contribute to the further development and maintenance of a regional climate model (RCA-GUESS), a global Earth system model (EC-EARTH), a dynamic vegetation/ecosystem model (LPJ-GUESS) and other models used within MERGE. Tasks may include, for example, the development and extension of existing models to incorporate new variables and processes

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-recruiting-climate-modeling-programmer - 2025-04-15

Published 21 December 2017 MERGE Autumn Meeting 2017 was held on 22-23 November in Helsingborg. The theme was MERGE research and future strategies. During the two days the latest exciting research within the different research areas of MERGE was presented. Also, the research school ClimBEco was presented and a number of new ideas for courses were put forward during the meeting.The MERGE board has

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-autumn-meeting - 2025-04-15

Published 9 February 2018 Merge attended the EC-Earth meeting hosted by ECMWF. EC-Earth, a European consortium which aims to provide reliable climate information, is in the final stages of preparing for a climate model intercomparison project expected to feed into the next IPCC report.Final decisions on tuning the latest version of the consortium’s Earth system model were taken at a meeting of nea

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/ec-earth-gets-ready-climate-model-intercomparison-project - 2025-04-15

Published 15 February 2018 Three Merge related doctoral dissertations are taking place at Chalmers in Gothenburg during February and March. Ågot Watne defending the thesis  Atmospheric oxidation - Formation and aging of biogenic and traffic-related emissions Xiangyu Pei defending the thesis A soot transformation study: interactions between soot, sulfuric acid and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) An

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/doctoral-dissertations-chalmers - 2025-04-15

Published 5 March 2018 MERGE is one of 12 strategic research areas at Lund University now highlighted in a new research magazine. ‘Mission is possible’ is a digital research magazine that provides thematically organised information about the impact research has on the world outside academia. Read article about MERGE here.

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/mission-possible - 2025-04-15

Published 21 May 2018 A three-kilometre-long cylinder of ice sheds light on what the climate was like one hundred thousand years ago. The ice contains traces of periods of higher or lower temperatures on Earth, but also of whether there were violent volcanic eruptions and high solar activity. By understanding the climate of the past, researchers can develop better models to predict the climate of

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/tracing-climate-back-100-000-years-greenland - 2025-04-15

Published 21 May 2018 Where did all the carbon on earth really come from? How do you discuss climate change and mass extinctions without scaring children? and What positive examples do we have of mitigating human impact on the climate? These are some of the questions we have had to deal with in the process of collaborating with Vattenhallen Science Centre, Lund University to design their new exhib

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/communicating-climate-science-global-scale-young-and-interactive-audience - 2025-04-15

Published 31 May 2018 Lund 2-4 October 2018, Abstract submission Closes 15th June, registration is open until 15th August It is the final year of LUCCI as financed as a Linnaeus environment from the Swedish Research Council and this will be a conference looking back at the achievements as well as looking into the future of studies around carbon cycle and climate interactions.Program, information,

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/lucci-conference - 2025-04-15

Published 14 May 2018 We are looking for someone to continue the work with developing RCA-GUESS, EC-Earth and LPJ-GUESS The scientific programmer will contribute to the development and maintenance of the different models used within MERGE. Good knowledge of programming in Fortran, C++ and Unix is needed. Last day to apply is 25/6 read more in Swedish here

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-hiring-programmer - 2025-04-15

Published 21 August 2018 SVT visited ICOS station Hyltemossan and MERGE researcher Adam Kristensson explained about terpener Together with BECC researcher Thomas Holst they explain why CO2 is not the only particle to focus on.You may read and watch the piece here in Swedish (SVT local news)

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-research-highlighted-media - 2025-04-15

Published 6 September 2018 This year’s summer meeting in Höllviken used the theme ‘Land use and ecosystem-based climate adaptation’ as starting point for presentations and discussions. Inspiring talks by Terese Thoni (CEC, LU), Åsa Kasimir (Earth Sciences, GU) and Paul Miller (INES, LU) set the scene for eye-opening and fun discussions in an intense afternoon workshop led by Deniz Koca (CEC, LU),

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/climbeco-summer-meeting - 2025-04-15

Published 20 September 2018 MERGE welcomes proposals for short research projects within the vision and aims of MERGE for the years 2018-19.This is a call from Lund University where partners are invited as long as a co-founding attestation is provided. The call is up to 1 million SEK and aims at a continued consolidation of the collaboration between research groups and major projects within MERGE.

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/call-open-merge-short-projects-and-merge-workshop-grants - 2025-04-15

Published 19 December 2018 A well visited full day with engaged and broad audience and speakers were the results of the first official BECC grand seminar jointly organized with MERGE. A grand seminar is defined as a full day filled with speakers and possibilities for discussions. November 26, BECC and MERGE jointly presented The Science and Politics of 1.5C. The organizers thank all participants a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-science-and-politics-15c-seminar - 2025-04-15

Published 19 December 2018 During one and a half day in November the MERGE Yearly meeting 2018 went off in Växjö. The theme was MERGE research and we heard from all corners of MERGE from the very small particles in the sky to being able to identify which tree/place was on the screen. All active partners in MERGE were represented and a blend of well-needed discussions were fused in between the pres

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-merge-yearly-meeting - 2025-04-15

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 1 February 2019 Professor Natascha Kljun and Station Manager Norunda measuring station Anders Båth in the Norunda forest. Photographer: Irene Lehner Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2025-04-15

Published 20 May 2019 Deadline 21st of May MERGE welcomes proposals for1. short research projects within the vision and aims of MERGE for the years 2019-20 and2. MERGE workshops during 2019-20The "Short research project"is a call from Lund University where partners are invited as co-applicants, but will only be able to cover salary for employed personnel at Lund University. The call is up to four

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/call-open-merge-short-projects-and-merge-workshop-grants-0 - 2025-04-15

Published 26 March 2019 Three major MERGE projects have data going into the new database PANGAEA LandClim II(VR, 2017-2020).This project is a collaboration between LNU, LU (dynamic vegetation modelling and spatial statistical modelling), SU (ESM EC Earth) and SMHI (regional models RCA4 and HARMONIE). The project is a development from the former MERGE project LandClim I*, the results of which are p

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/database-pangaea-now-public - 2025-04-15

Published 15 March 2019 Members of the MERGE board Mattias Hallquist, Birgitta Svenningsson, Paul Miller, David Simpson, Ralf Döschler and Marie-Jose Gaillard are a few of those who have written the debate article due to school strike Global Strike for Future. In a debate article at Dagens Nyheter more than 270 researchers, among many of them involved in MERGE, show respect and support for the dem

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-researchers-supports-demands-youths-manifest-march-15th - 2025-04-15

Published 21 May 2019 During 7-8 of May, 80 researchers within MERGE and BECC met to learn about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, and how their research can be linked, and contribute, to the implementation of the goals. We are just as far from reaching the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) as Burkina Faso. We just have different challenges.This is one of many terse quotes delivered by Ka

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/spring-meeting-2019-merge-becc-jointly-sustainable-development-goals - 2025-04-15