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Multidisciplinary Swedish node

Collaboration between researchers from departments spread across five Swedish universities and Rossby centre (SMHI).

Providing world-leading climate-terrestrial biosphere interactions

for the international Earth system modelling community and its science agenda.

Societal dialogue

in the spirit of social learning by both scientists and stakeholders.

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Two researchers standing in the overalls on a large sheet of ice

1 Jun 2023 | News

Greetings from the polar expedition ARTofMELT 2023

As the ice-breaker Odin set sail on the 7th of May, MERGE-researchers Luisa Ickes, Lovisa Nilsson and Nicolas Faure were on it!

Photo: Mattias Hallquist

19 Apr 2023 | News

Cities will need more resilient electricity networks to cope with extreme weather

Dense urban areas amplify the effects of higher temperatures, due to the phenomenon of heat islands in cities. Large investments in the electricity network will be necessary to coo...

Dark forest. White fog coming in and grey clouds. Photo.

27 Mar 2023 | News

Deteriorating air quality in a warmer world

Not all air pollution are created by humans. As the global average temperature rises, harmful emissions from plants increase and more desert dust is dispersed in the atmosphere. Re...

Burnt tree skeletons against a foggy sky. Photo.

20 Mar 2023 | News

Markku Rummukainen on the new IPCC report: "Near-term action is crucial"

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a synthesis report summarizing the reports of recent years. Markku Rummukainen, Sweden's contact person for t...

Sniffer intake of a boat. Photo.

14 Mar 2023 | News

Half of the ships well above emission limits for nitrogen oxide

Within the activities of the EU HORIZON 2020 project SCIPPER, recordings of NOx (nitrogen oxides) emissions from vessels were remotely collected and analysed. The data originated f...

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ClimBEco Graduate Research School

ClimBEco is a two-year graduate research school connected to CEC (Centre for Environmental and Climate Science). It promotes interdisciplinary research, partly within the MERGE research areas, by supporting PhD students in networking and learning across different fields of study.