Øyvind Paasche is the Head of the Climate Dynamics Department at NORCE, the Director of Climate Futures and a Senior Scientist affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.
He has a long-term interest in past, present and future climate change and dynamics, especially at high latitudes. During later years, he has developed a keen interest in how scientific data is handled, used and understood by stakeholders and policymakers.
He has authored and co-authored 40 studies in international peer-reviewed journals; co-edited the book The New Arctic, published in 2015 by Springer; co-authored a book on how the climate system works called What is Climate? (in Norwegian) together with Erik Kolstad; and was a contributing author to the 4th IPPC report of 2007 (The Physical Science Basis).
Paasche has led several projects including Ocean Outlook (2016-20), Hordaflom (2017-2021), and Advanced Climate Education and Research (2018-2022) and was a member of the Seasonal Forecasting Engine (2018-2021). Ongoing projects include the new research-driven innovation centre, Climate Futures (2020-2028), ArcticPassion (EU, 2021-2026) and Impetus for Change, I4C (EU, 2022-2027) and GoNorth (2022/23-2025) which is funded by the Norwegian Government and the new FME-centre RenewHydro (2025-2032).
Paasche is part of the team running the renowned summer school Advanced Climate Dynamics Courses (ACDC), is currently the Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee for the large international initiative Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) and on the board for the coming Polar Arctic Ocean 2050.
Selected papers
- Österblom, H. & Paasche, Ø. (2021). Earth altruism, One earth, Vol 4, 1386-1397 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.003
Bakke, J., Paasche, Ø., Schaefer, J.M., & Timmermann, A. (2021). Long-term demise of sub-Antarctic glaciers modulated by the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies, Scientific Reports, 11 (8361), doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87317-5. - Engeland, K., Aano, A., Steffensen, I., Støren, E., and Paasche, Ø. (2020) New flood frequency estimates for the largest river in Norway based on the combination of short and long time series, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24(11):5595-5619, doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-5595-2020.
- Stenseth, N.C. Payne, M.R., Bonsdorff, E., Dankel, D.J., Durant, J.M., Anderson, L.G., Armstrong, C.W., Blenckner, T., Brakstad, A., Dupont, S., Eikeset, A.M., Goksøyr, A., Jónsson, S., Kuparinen, A., Våge, K., Österblom, H., and Paasche, Ø. (2020). Attuning to the changing ocean. PNAS, 117 (34) 20363-20371; doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915352117
- Lane, T. P., Paasche, Ø., Kvisvik, B., Adamson, K. R., Rodés, Á., Patton, H., Gomez, N., Gheorghiu, D., Bakke, J., and Hubbard, A. (2020). Elevation changes of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet interior during the last deglaciation. Geophysical Research Letters,https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088796
- Österblom, H. & Paasche, Ø. (2021). Earth altruism, One earth, Vol 4, 1386-1397 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.003
