ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system - MERGE

In a great collaboration with BECC, Nature Based Future Solutions at Lund University and AI Lund - we organised "AI for Biodiversity and Climate Research" yesterday. A big thanks to all people involved!

Swedish Climate Symposium: Call for Abstracts

SCS is a symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Explore the programme to see which sessions are accepting abstracts. Submit by 30 January: swedishclimatesymposium.com

Highlights from our annual meeting: inspiring presentations, a small but interesting poster session, updates from MERGE research areas, and a quiz! We also enjoyed nice food in great company. Finally, we got to thank @millerinlund.bsky.social for his 10 years as MERGE much appreciated coordinator👏

We're in Norrköping - gathered for the 2025 MERGE annual meeting! The meeting started off with a session on Climate Modeling & CMIP7 Planning, with a keynote by Fuxing Wang from SMHI.

Welcome to NOSA 2026: Impacts of Aerosol Science & Technology

👩‍🏫 Target group: experienced & early-career scientists
📅 Date: 3-5 March
🗺️ Location: Lund, Swe.
🔗 Info: www.eat.lth.se/en/nosa-2026

The Nordic Society for Aerosol Research (NOSA) provides a platform for scientists to meet & share ideas.

MERGE samarbetar med LU Land kring den digitala föreläsningsserien: Klimat och hållbar markanvändning.

Välkomna på nästa föreläsning den 26/11 kl: 08.30-09.30: När arvet från luftföroreningarna möter klimatförändringen: vad händer med skogsmiljön? Anmäl dig -->

www.luland.lu.se/evenemang/lu...

Climate modelling and the forest Climate modelling and the forest

How do forests shape the climate — and how does a changing climate reshape our forests? What can science reveal about the forests of tomorrow?

With the municipality of Lund we produced this mini documentary about climate modeling and the forest, as part of an exhibition at Skrylle outside of Lund

If you happen to live in or around Lund, maybe we will see you 25 October on the Opening of Climate and Forests – A New Popular Science Exhibition at Naturum Skrylle: www.merge.lu.se/calendar/ope...

Actris Sweden infrastructure got funding to 2030. www.actris.se/node/28

Long live the air pollution measurements!

In forests: Hyltemossa, Norunda, Svartberget.

At sea: Östergarnsholm.

In Arctic: Svalbard.

Higher: with remote sensing + cloud radar.

And intensively: with mobile station GoEPIC.

Secondary forests could be a key factor in climate management

Analysing more than 100,000 field measurements & environmental data, an international research team, incl. Thomas Pugh, researcher in physical geography & MERGE, created maps showing how & when secondary forests bind most carbon:

New LU Land series: Climate & sustainable land use

The 1st lecture (24/9) will give an introduction to the subject. Future lectures will delve deeper into various aspects of research on the interplay between climate change & changes in land use. More info (Swe): www.luland.lu.se/evenemang/lu...

🌾 AI + satellite data + LPJ-GUESS = better crop forecasts

PhD thesis by Xueying Li (Dept. of Physical Geography & Ecosystem Science, LU; BECC & MERGE) shows how combining AI, satellite data & LPJ-GUESS can improve early yield predictions—key for food security in a changing climate.

Research for future food security. Improving crop yield prediction in Sweden using satellite remote sensing and the ecosystem model LPJ-GUESS. Thesis by Xueying Li, PhD at LU and MERGE-member: www.lu.se/artikel/ny-f...

How can AI help us better predict the future of our planet?

That was the central question when researchers from across Europe met in Lund for the 2nd consortium meeting of AI4PEX—a Horizon Europe project focused on improving Earth System Models using new AI methods: www.merge.lu.se/article/lund...

Research Area meetings for RA1 and RA2 today and tomorrow. Presentations about the diverse ongoing research and intense discussions about the future research within MERGE!

Movie in the making!

Yesterday, Moa Sporre and David Wårlind was shot for a film about modelling the impact of forests on climate, and vice versa. The film is part of a bigger collaboration with Naturum Skrylle in Lund and will be shown for all its visitors to see.

EC-Earth is an Earth system model developed by a European consortium of national meteorological services and research institutes. The EC-Earth consortium was started in 2006 and has welcomed many new partners ever since. By now, EC-Earth has become a prominent state-of-the-art model within the international landscape of global climate and Earth system models. The EC-Earth consortium has contributed to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), and will continue to do so in the future. EC-Earth is also used as a research tool in various national, European and international projects.

Earlier this spring, MERGE researchers met to develop the EC-Earth4 Climate Model ahead of 2028 IPCC Report:
www.merge.lu.se/article/merg...

Picture: Infographic of EC-Earth

#ec-earth #cmip #ipcc

Congratulations to @icossweden.bsky.social who held a successful one-day celebration event yesterday on the topic of the science of changes in ecosystems, the oceans and atmosphere due to climate change.

Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating – new research Moderate changes over millennia are being sped up by emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating

Zhengyao Lu, Researcher in Physical Geography & MERGE has published a popular science article in @theconversation.com. The @naturegeosci.bsky.social study was also published open-access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Some thoughts on yesterday's Grand Seminar "Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication" - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching Yesterday, I attended the Grand Seminar on “Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication” organised by LU Sustainability Forum, BECC and MERGE at Lund University that my fr...

A while back, we co-organised the seminar "Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication" with @beccsweden.bsky.social and Sustainability Forum. Lucky for us, @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social was there and she wrote a really nice summary of the day:

Många av världens sjöar har ändrat färg - forskning.se Sjöar är viktiga ekosystem och livsmiljöer för vatten- och landlevande arter. De bidrar till biologisk mångfald, men är också avgörande för jordbruk och tillgång på dricksvatten. Eftersom sjöar påverk...

Interview (Swe) with Zheng Duan, researcher in physical geography at Lund University & member of MERGE & @beccsweden.bsky.social
Based on the research article: "Satellite Observations Reveal Widespread Color Variations in Global Lakes Since the 1980s" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Welcome to the workshop "Hidden Sinks: The Overlooked Side of Arctic Methane"

We will explore the growing evidence of CH₄ sinks and their role in refining Arctic methane budget estimates.

🕣 Date: 13 - 14 May
🏢 Place: Gothenburg or zoom
📝 More info and registration: www.becc.lu.se/calendar/hid...

The Artic emergency and who is listening? with prof Mary Edwards
#MERGEannualmeeting #Gothenburg #Artic