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Overview

Øyvind Seland is affiliated with the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong emphasis on global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Oceanographic and atmospheric processes

Øyvind Seland has published extensively in multiple scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Nature Climate Change

Their selected recent papers include:

  • Overview of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2) and key climate response of CMIP6 DECK, historical, and scenario simulations, 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Ocean biogeochemistry in the Norwegian Earth System Model version 2 (NorESM2), 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Evaluating stratospheric ozone and water vapour changes in CMIP6 models from 1850 to 2100, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • NorCPM1 and its contribution to CMIP6 DCPP, 2021, Geoscientific model development

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Dirk Olivié
  • Peter Kuma
  • Frida A.-M. Bender
  • Alex Schuddeboom
  • Adrian McDonald

Best Publications

  • Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AeroCom

    C. Textor;M. Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • Radiative forcing of the direct aerosol effect from AeroCom Phase II simulations

    Gunnar Myhre;Bjørn Hallvard Samset;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski

  • The Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM1-M – Part 1: Description and basic evaluation of the physical climate

    M. Bentsen;I. Bethke;J. B. Debernard;T. Iversen;T. Iversen;T. Iversen

  • An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

    S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

  • Overview of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2) and key climate response of CMIP6 DECK, historical, and scenario simulations

    Øyvind Seland;Mats Bentsen;Dirk Jan Leo Oliviè;Thomas Toniazzo;Thomas Toniazzo

  • Radiative forcing by aerosols as derived from the AeroCom present-day and pre-industrial simulations

    M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Kinne;Yves Balkanski

  • Evaluation of black carbon estimations in global aerosol models

    D. Koch;D. Koch;M. Schulz;S. Kinne;C. McNaughton

  • The AeroCom evaluation and intercomparison of organic aerosol in global models

    K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis;N. Daskalakis;N. Daskalakis;M. Kanakidou;P. J. Adams

  • Aerosol indirect effects – general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data

    Johannes Quaas;Yi Ming;Surabi Menon;Surabi Menon;T. Takemura

  • Evaluating the climate and air quality impacts of short-lived pollutants

    Andreas Stohl;Borgar Aamaas;M Amann;LH Baker

  • General overview: European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality interactions (EUCAARI) - integrating aerosol research from nano to global scales

    M. Kulmala;A. Asmi;H. K. Lappalainen;H. K. Lappalainen;U. Baltensperger

  • The Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM1-M – Part 2: Climate response and scenario projections

    T. Iversen;T. Iversen;T. Iversen;M. Bentsen;I. Bethke;J. B. Debernard

  • Black carbon vertical profiles strongly affect its radiative forcing uncertainty

    Bjørn Hallvard Samset;Gunnar Myhre;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski

  • Evaluation of the carbon cycle components in the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM)

    J. F. Tjiputra;J. F. Tjiputra;C. Roelandt;M. Bentsen;D. M. Lawrence

  • Model intercomparison of indirect aerosol effects

    J. E. Penner;J. Quaas;J. Quaas;T. Storelvmo;T. Takemura

  • Half a degree additional warming, prognosis and projected impacts (HAPPI): background and experimental design

    Daniel Mitchell;Daniel Mitchell;Krishna AchutaRao;Myles Allen;Myles Allen;Ingo Bethke

  • Constraining human contributions to observed warming since the pre-industrial period

    Nathan P. Gillett;Megan Kirchmeier-Young;Aurélien Ribes;Hideo Shiogama

  • Aerosol–climate interactions in the Norwegian Earth System Model – NorESM1-M

    A. Kirkevåg;T. Iversen;T. Iversen;Ø. Seland;C. Hoose;C. Hoose

  • The effect of harmonized emissions on aerosol properties in global models – an AeroCom experiment

    C. Textor;M Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • Modelled black carbon radiative forcing and atmospheric lifetime in AeroCom Phase II constrained by aircraft observations

    B. H. Samset;G. Myhre;Andreas Herber;Yutaka Kondo

  • The Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM1-M - Part 1: Description and basic evaluation

    M. Bentsen;I. Bethke;J.B. Debernard;T. Iversen

Frequent Co-Authors

Trond Iversen
Trond Iversen Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Alf Kirkevåg
Alf Kirkevåg Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Jón Egill Kristjánsson
Jón Egill Kristjánsson University of Oslo
Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Susanne E. Bauer
Susanne E. Bauer Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Christoph Heinze
Christoph Heinze University of Bergen
Terje Berntsen
Terje Berntsen University of Oslo
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Yves Balkanski
Yves Balkanski French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

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