Mats Bentsen

Senior Researcher
Phone: +47 56 10 75 06
Email: mben@norceresearch.no
Office Address: Jahnebakken 5, 5007 Bergen, Norway

Projects

Keyclim 1
Project

KeyCLIM: Key Earth System processes to understand Arctic Climate Warming and Northern Latitude Hydrological Cycle Changes
Project

INES: Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System modelling

Project

Sea Level Change and Ice Sheet Dynamics (SEALEV)

Publications

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming
Nature Geoscience 2021
NorCPM1 and its contribution to CMIP6 DCPP
Geoscientific Model Development 2021
Overview of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2) and key climate response of CMIP6 DECK, historical, and scenario simulations
Geoscientific Model Development 2020
Evaluation of global ocean-sea-ice model simulations based on the experimental protocols of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (OMIP-2)
Geoscientific Model Development 2020
Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change
Nature Climate Change 2020
Enforcing conservation of axial angular momentum in the atmospheric general circulation model CAM6
Geoscientific Model Development 2020
Ocean biogeochemistry in the Norwegian Earth System Model version 2 (NorESM2)
Geoscientific Model Development 2020
An assessment of the Indian Ocean mean state and seasonal cycle in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations
Ocean Modelling 2020
Arctic amplification under global warming of 1.5 and 2 °C in NorESM1-Happi
Earth System Dynamics 2019
Equilibrium simulations of Marine Isotope Stage 3 climate
Climate of the Past 2019
Description and evaluation of NorESM1-F: a fast version of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM)
Geoscientific Model Development 2019
JRA-55 based surface dataset for driving ocean-sea-ice models (JRA55-do)
Ocean Modelling 2018
Ensemble data assimilation for ocean biogeochemical state and parameter estimation at different sites
Ocean Modelling 2017
North and Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation in the CORE-II Hindcast Simulations
Ocean Modelling 2016
Flow-dependent assimilation of sea surface temperature in isopycnal coordinates with the Norwegian climate prediction model
Tellus. Series A, Dynamic meteorology and oceanography 2016
North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part II: Inter-annual to decadal variability
Ocean Modelling 2016
Evaluation of NorESM-OC (versions 1 and 1.2), the ocean carbon-cycle stand-alone configuration of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM1)
Geoscientific Model Development 2016
North and equatorial Pacific Ocean circulation in the CORE-II hindcast simulations
Ocean Modelling 2016
An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations. Part III: Hydrography and fluxes
Ocean Modelling 2016
An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations. Part I: Sea ice and solid freshwater
Ocean Modelling 2016
Characteristics of the Nordic Seas overflows in a set of Norwegian Earth System Model experiments
Ocean Modelling 2016
An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations. Part II: Liquid freshwater
Ocean Modelling 2016
Simulated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the 20th century with an ocean model forced by reanalysis-based atmospheric data sets
Ocean Modelling 2016
An assessment of Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988-2007 in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations
Ocean Modelling 2015
An assessment of Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Southern Ocean meridional overturning circulation during 1958–2007 in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations
Ocean Modelling 2015
Seasonal-to-decadal predictions with the ensemble kalman filter and the Norwegian earth System Model: A twin experiment
Tellus. Series A, Dynamic meteorology and oceanography 2014
An assessment of global and regional sea level for years 1993-2007 in a suite of interannual core-II simulations
Ocean Modelling 2014
Baroclinic instability of the Faroe Bank Channel overflow
Journal of Physical Oceanography 2014
North Atlantic simulations in coordinated ocean-ice reference experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: mean states
Ocean Modelling 2014
External forcing of the early 20th century Arctic warming
Tellus. Series A, Dynamic meteorology and oceanography 2013
Sea surface temperature of the mid-piacenzian ocean: a data-model comparison
Scientific Reports 2013
Evaluation of the carbon cycle components in the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM)
Geoscientific Model Development 2013
The Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM1-M - Part 2: Climate response and scenario projections
Geoscientific Model Development 2013
The Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM1-M - Part 1: Description and basic evaluation of the physical climate
Geoscientific Model Development 2013
Mechanisms for variable North Atlantic-Nordic seas exchanges
Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans 2012
North Atlantic ventilation using chlorofluorocarbons and idealised-tracer simulations
Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology 2012
Early Eocene Asian climate dominated by desert and steppe with limited monsoons
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2012
Pre-industrial and mid-Pliocene simulations with NorESM-L
Geoscientific Model Development 2012
Mechanisms for decadal scale variability in a simulated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Climate Dynamics 2012
Tropical seaways played a more important role than high latitude seaways in Cenozoic cooling
Climate of the Past 2011
An isopycnic ocean carbon cycle model
Geoscientific Model Development 2010
External forcing as a metronome for Atlantic multidecadal variability
Nature Geoscience 2010
Bergen Earth system model (BCM-C): model description and regional climate-carbon cycle feedbacks assessment
Geoscientific Model Development 2010
Simulating transport of I-129 and idealized tracers in the northern North Atlantic Ocean
Environmental Fluid Mechanics 2010
D4.1-16 - Potential predictability of long-term anomalies from ensemble integrations with the global model BCM
EU DG Environment 2010
Bergen earth system model (BCM- C): model description and regional climate-carbon cycle feedbacks assessment
Geoscientific Model Development 2009
An isopycnic ocean carbon cycle model
Geoscientific Model Development 2009
Response of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre to persistent North Atlantic oscillation like forcing
Climate Dynamics 2009
A possible mechanism for the strong weakening of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre in the mid-1990s
Geophysical Research Letters 2009