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Published 23 June 2016 A new MERGE newsletter has just been sent out. Check it out and sign up here! From the content: Sign up for workshop on aerosol-climate interactions by 23 JuneForest production on drained peat release greenhouse gasesSwedish researchers build new European infrastructure for atmospheric researchComing eventsand more...You can find the newsletter here (open online version)Woul
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-merge-newsletter-out - 2025-08-11
Published 8 August 2016 Photo: Pixabay Welcome to a workshop to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE, August 22-24 in Gothenburg. The aim of the workshops is to find strategies and fruitful pathways for the future aerosol related work in MERGE. Specifically, we want to develop efficient ways to bridge over scales and between MERGE research areas. This
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-aerosol-workshop-22-24-aug-gothenburg - 2025-08-11
Published 20 September 2016 Meet new guest researcher Professor Simon Clegg, University of East Anglia (U.K.) and University of California, Davis (U.S.A.). His main research focus is on the fundamental physical chemistry of atmospheric aerosol particles, and on the development of chemical speciation models of seawater and other natural waters. Simon is working with MERGE until the end of November.
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-guest-researcher-focus-aerosols-water - 2025-08-11
Published 20 October 2016 Photo: Pixabay MERGE PhD student Thanh Le will defend his PhD thesis "Causal links of past climate change in Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 climate models" on Friday the 21 October. On Thursday the 20 October a minisymposium on climate dynamics and the climate of the past millennium is held. Welcome! PhD thesis defense Friday 21 OctMERGE PhD student Thanh L
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/phd-defense-and-minisymposium-past-climate-change-20-21-oct - 2025-08-11
Published 24 October 2016 A part of the vision of MERGE is interaction with stakeholders and making our work relevant to actions of mitigation. This is the topic of this autumn meeting where guests and MERGE participants share their experiences with outreach and stakeholder contact. Welcome to the MERGE Autumn Meeting on November 21-22 in Helsingborg - last day to sign up is October 30. 21-22 Nove
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/sign-merge-autumn-meeting-21-22-november - 2025-08-11
Published 3 November 2016 Deliang Chen, photo: University of Gothenburg Deliang Chen, MERGE/BECC researcher and August Röhss Professor at the University of Gothenburg, has been recently appointed chairman of the nomination committee for the Stockholm Water Prize by the Board of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Stockholm Water Prize is the world’s most prestigious water award. A prize cer
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/deliang-chen-appointed-chairman-stockholm-water-prize - 2025-08-11
Published 9 January 2017 Foto: Randa Kachef Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the field of risk analyses. Ullrika Sahlin, Researcher at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research, CEC, has been awarded Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award for her work in the fi
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/researcher-awarded-price-society-risk-analysis - 2025-08-11
Published 11 January 2017 There will be a new postdoctoral position in Modelling and analysis of atmospheric organic aerosols - from canopy to globe. The position will be at Chalmers, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling, Department of Earth and Space Sciences. Read more about the job offer here.
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/post-doc-modelling-and-analysis-atmospheric-organic-aerosols-canopy-globe-chalmers - 2025-08-11
Published 24 March 2017 Åsa have been selected as a Lead Author for the writing of the Methodology Report entitled “2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories”. Åsa Kasimir have been selected by the Bureau of IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) as a Lead Author for the writing of the Methodology Report entitled “2019 Refinement to t
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/asa-kasimir-selected-be-ipcc-lead-author - 2025-08-11
Published 5 May 2017 The first ever Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29-31 August 2017. The first Nordic ICOS Symposium will be held in Copenhagen 29-31 August 2017. Deadline for abstracts is June 15th and for registration is August 1st 2017. Please find more information and registration here.
https://www.merge.lu.se/article/first-nordic-icos-symposium - 2025-08-11
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
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 - 2025-08-11
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 - 2025-08-11
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 - 2025-08-11
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 - 2025-08-11
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 - 2025-08-11
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 - 2025-08-11
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 - 2025-08-11
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 - 2025-08-11
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 - 2025-08-11
