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During the past week, 350 delegates from 120 countries have gathered in Copenhagen, to go through and come to a common conclusion about the state of knowledge on climate change. The result was finalized as a synthesis report which states that the human influence on the climate system is clear and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history. But the report also sta

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/ipcc-synthesis-report-provides-common-conclusion-about-state-knowledge-climate-change - 2025-10-07

We would like to welcome Franziska Aemisegger, who will be a MERGE guest researcher for the coming two years. For the coming two years, Franziska Aemisegger will be a MERGE guest researcher with a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship (SNSF). In her current research she is studying land-atmosphere interactions in the midlatitude water cycle from a weather systems perspective. The different

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-guest-researcher-franziska-aemisegger - 2025-10-07

Comparing the first simple climate models with those of today is like comparing a little blurry black and white line drawing with a large, high-resolution full-color photo. Everything has increased dramatically - both complexity, geographical resolution and model datasets. Read the interview with Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE. - The development is quickly moving forward. When we started

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/advanced-climate-models-lacks-computing-power - 2025-10-07

Lund University has collected the top research of the university's twelve strategic reseach environments in a new book. MERGE is one of these environments. In 2008, the Swedish Government designated 20 ‘Strategic Research Areas’ (SRAs) in its research-policy bill. Within these 20 areas, 43 research environments were chosen for specific funding in a special evaluation in 2009. They were all conduct

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/todays-great-explorers - 2025-10-07

Today, Monday 26 January, the new report "Klimatsäkrat Skåne" will be launched. The report is a knowledge review and analysis of Skåne's climate work including opportunities and challenges. The launch event focuses on three panel discussions on how we should make our society less vulnerable to climate change, how we use ecosystem services and the implications of climate change for business. Markku

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-about-regional-climate-challenges-and-adaptation-skane - 2025-10-07

The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system is the name of Wenxing Zhangs thesis, which he defended on February 6 2015. On February 6th Wenxin Zhang defended his thesis The role of biogeophysical feedbacks and their impacts in the arctic and boreal climate system. Opponent was Laxmi Sushama.In the thesis Wenxin Zhang presents findings from studies

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/role-biogeophysical-feedbacks-and-their-impacts-arctic-and-boreal-climate-system - 2025-10-07

ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school that promotes young scientists to engage in interdisciplinary research on climate, earth system and society in a changing world. Application to ClimBEco is open right now until the 14th of April. The Research School is open to students who are already enrolled as PhD students. Priority will be given to PhD students enrolled at Nordic Universities eng

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/apply-climbeco-graduate-research-school-2015-2017 - 2025-10-07

DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find climate, land use, biodiversity and related data. The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC. The team, led by researcher Veiko Lehsten, developed a tool for the dissemination of the research data that can be

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/dataguru-new-tool-disseminating-and-finding-spatial-temporal-data - 2025-10-07

The Strategic Research Area initiative for research funding was launched by the Swedish Government in the research and innovation bill of 2008. 43 Swedish strategic research areas (SRA’s) was funded by the Swedish government from 2010-2014. MERGE is one of the SRA’s that now have been evaluated. Today the evaluation, together with recommendations for the future, was published and we are happy to a

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/positive-evaluation-merge - 2025-10-07

Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid landscapes occupying the transition zone between rainforest and desert dominate th

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-article-science-shows-savannahs-slows-climate-change - 2025-10-07

On May 11-13 an international LUsTT/BECC/MERGE workshop was organized in Landskrona, with around 60 leading researchers within the field of dynamic vegetation modelling. Report from the LUsTT/BECC/MERGE Workshop: “Dynamic global vegetation modelling: towards a third generation”.LPJ-GUESS is a Dynamical Global Vegetation model (DGVM) maintained and further developed at the Department of Physical Ge

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/report-dynamic-global-vegetation-modelling-towards-third-generation - 2025-10-07

On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund University has an active rol

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-10-07

A recently published report is a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book. Several MERGE researchers has contributed to this work. The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book.“The current publication for the Baltic Sea area is a regional variant on

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2025-10-07

On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on MERGE's development as

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2025-10-07

A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has the goal to produce globa

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-pages-working-group-will-produce-global-recontructions-anthropogenic-land-cover-change - 2025-10-07

Pga Covid-19 har en del programpunkter strukits. 7 oktober kl 12:15  Lunchvisning  "Frukt av alla slag" ingen föranmälan krävs, biljett köpes i Butik Botan kostnad 60 kr. 13 oktober kl 15:00 Framtidsveckans Visning" Växtkraft på intåg - Hot eller löfte om framtiden?" bokningsinformation kommer senare 14-18 oktober Framtidsveckans Utställning "Fjärilarna steg upp" 14 oktober kl 11:15 Seniorvisning

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/program-hostvinter-2020-1 - 2025-10-07

Pga Corona kan vi endast ta 15 personer per visning. Biljetter till visningar köpes i Butik Botan före visningar. Lunchvisningar kl 12:15-13:00, kostnad 60 kr. 7/10 Frukt av alla slag 4/11 Ett besök i regnskogen 2/12 Julens växter och frön Seniorvisningar kl 11:15-12:00, kostnad 40 kr. 14/10 Kryptogamer 11/11 Tillbaka till rötterna 9/12 Julens växter och frön  

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/visningar-host-och-vinter-2020 - 2025-10-07

En vänförening, "Botans vänner", har bildats och söker medlemmar. Föreningen ska främja trädgården, stödja forskning kring botanik och verka för folkbildning.På Botans vänners webbplats kan du läsa mer. 

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/ny-vanforening-till-botaniska-tradgarden - 2025-10-07

En kompost är som en mångmiljonstad som sjuder av liv och aktivitet! Men hur får man egentligen den att fungera? Kleopatra införde redan på sin tid dödsstraff för utförsel av kompostmaskar.. Följ med botanisten Julia Borg och trädgårdsteknikern Katarina Löthman-Kaliff på en tur i Botaniska trädgården och få kunskap och inspiration till din egen mångmiljonstad! 3 november kl 12:15-13:00 Är du över

https://www.botan.lu.se/artikel/kompost-guidad-visning - 2025-10-07

Hans Knutsson, lektor och programchef på Ekonomihögskolan, har använt Inspera i ett par år nu och ur ett lärarperspektiv är han mycket nöjd. Han har använt verktyget både i sal och på distans och ser framför allt positivt på alla de möjligheter som Inspera erbjuder i form av många olika frågeformat. Foto: Johan Persson och Unsplash.com – Det känns tryggt med Inspera eftersom det är ett beprövat sy

https://www.education.lu.se/artikel/lararen-om-inspera-stor-rikedom-av-frageformat - 2025-10-07