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Asgeir Sorteberg

Professor, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen
Verified email at uib.no
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Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment

…, M Rahimi, M Reichstein, A Sorteberg… - 2012 - academiccommons.columbia.edu
An extreme (weather or climate) event is generally defined as the occurrence of a value of a
weather or climate variable above (or below) a threshold value near the upper (or lower) …

Recent drought and precipitation tendencies in Ethiopia

E Viste, D Korecha, A Sorteberg - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2013 - Springer
In 2011, drought in the Horn of Africa again made news headlines. This study aims to quantify
the meteorological component of this and other drought episodes in Ethiopia since 1971. …

Recent radical shifts of atmospheric circulations and rapid changes in Arctic climate system

X Zhang, A Sorteberg, J Zhang… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic climate system change has accelerated tremendously since the beginning of this
century, and a strikingly extreme sea‐ice loss occurred in summer 2007. However, the …

Impacts of climate change on Blue Nile flows using bias-corrected GCM scenarios

…, IA Seierstad, A Sorteberg - Hydrology and Earth …, 2009 - hess.copernicus.org
This study analyses the output of 17 general circulation models (GCMs) included in the 4th
IPCC assessment report. Downscaled precipitation and potential (reference crop) …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamical downscaling of ERA-40 in complex terrain using the WRF regional climate model

U Heikkilä, A Sandvik, A Sorteberg - Climate dynamics, 2011 - Springer
Results from a first-time employment of the WRF regional climate model to climatological
simulations in Europe are presented. The ERA-40 reanalysis (resolution 1) has been …

[PDF][PDF] Climate in Svalbard 2100

…, H Hisdal, S Mayer, AB Sandø, A Sorteberg - A knowledge base for …, 2019 - academia.edu
This report was commissioned by the Norwegian Environment Agency in order to provide
basic information for use in climate change adaptation in Svalbard. It includes descriptions of …

Description and evaluation of the Bergen climate model: ARPEGE coupled with MICOM

…, H Drange, IKT Kindem, NG Kvamstø, A Sorteberg - Climate Dynamics, 2003 - Springer
A new coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice model has been developed, named the Bergen
Climate Model (BCM). It consists of the atmospheric model ARPEGE/IFS, together with a …

Blood blister–like aneurysms of the internal carotid artery trunk causing subarachnoid hemorrhage: treatment and outcome

TR Meling, A Sorteberg, SJ Bakke, H Slettebø… - Journal of …, 2008 - thejns.org
Object The object of this study was to evaluate cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)
from ruptured blood blister–like aneurysms (BBAs) of the internal carotid artery (ICA) trunk. …

Moisture transport into the Ethiopian highlands

E Viste, A Sorteberg - International journal of climatology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The Ethiopian summer rains occur as air masses of various origins converge above the
Ethiopian plateau. In this study, the relative importance of different moisture transport branches …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric forcing on the Barents Sea winter ice extent

A Sorteberg, B Kvingedal - Journal of Climate, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Sorteberg, A., T. Furevik, H. Drange, and NG Kvamstø, 2005a: Effects of simulated natural
variability on Arctic temperature projections. … Sorteberg, A., NG Kvamstø, and Ø Byrkjedal …