Mats Bentsen

Senior Researcher

mben@norceresearch.no
+47 56 10 75 06
Jahnebakken 5, 5007 Bergen, Norway

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Climate & Environment

Research Groups

Earth Systems

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Projects

INES2: Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System Modelling phase 2

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Climate

MakingWaves: Wave-mediated atmosphere-ocean-sea-ice interactions and their climatic impacts in the Nordic Seas and eastern Arctic.

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Climate

studies of Key Polar Ocean and Climate Processes with high-resolution coupled climate models

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Publications

Conference lecture

Overturning simulation in the Cenozoic with NorESM
– Workshop at LSCE 2011
Academic article

Mechanisms for variable North Atlantic-Nordic seas exchanges
– Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans 2012
Conference lecture

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming.
– CRESCENDO General Assembly 2021
Academic article

Early Eocene Asian climate dominated by desert and steppe with limited monsoons
– Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 2012
Research report

Preliminary results from a coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice model
– REGCLIM/NILU 2000
Conference lecture

The Bergen Climate Model: Results from a CMIP2 integration - regional aspects
– International Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science 2002
Popular scientific article

Lovende resultater for nyutviklet klimamodell
– Cicerone 2002
Conference lecture

How representative is Svalbard for future Arctic climate evolution? An Earth system modelling perspective.
– SIOS Polar Night Week 2021
Conference lecture

Observed and simulated mean dynamic topography
– ARCGICE - Combination of Spaceborne, Airborne and In-situ Gravity Measurements in Support of Arctic Sea-Ice Mapping, ESTEC 2007
Conference lecture

New parameterizations of gravitational currents and turbulence in MICOM
– EarthClim Meeting 2012
Conference lecture

From CMIP5 to CMIP6: New developments for the ocean biogeochemistry module of NorESM
– Bjerknes SAC meeting 2016 2016
Academic article

Simulating transport of I-129 and idealized tracers in the northern North Atlantic Ocean
– Environmental Fluid Mechanics 2010
Popular scientific article

Omfattende arbeid med bedre klimamodeller
– Cicerone 2005
Conference lecture

An overview of the Bergen Climate Model
– Bjerknes days 2001 2001
Conference lecture

Subtropical North Atlantic preconditioning key to skilful subpolar gyre prediction
– Conference on subseasonal-to-decadal climate prediction 2018
Conference lecture

Highlights from the Bergen Climate model: Results from a 300-years control integration,and from a 80-years integration with 1% increase in CO2
– The FOGAMO seminar 2002
Research report

D4.1-16 - Potential predictability of long-term anomalies from ensemble integrations with the global model BCM
– EU DG Environment 2010
Academic article

Arctic amplification under global warming of 1.5 and 2 °C in NorESM1-Happi
– Earth System Dynamics (ESD) 2019
Conference lecture

Preliminary results from a coupled atmosphere-ocean-sea ice model
– European Geophysical Society, 25th General Assembly 2000
Conference lecture

Mid-Pliocene simulations with the new version of the Norwegian Earth System Model
– PlioMIP Phase II 2016
Academic article

Sensitivity of winter Arctic amplification in NorESM2
– Earth System Dynamics (ESD) 2025
Conference lecture

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming.
– GFDL seminar 2022
Conference lecture

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming.
– Joint Oslo Seminar 2021
Academic article

The transient response of the Atlantic meridional Overturning Circulation to enhanced freshwater input to the Nordic Seas/Arctic Ocean in the bergen Climate Model
– Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 2003
Academic article

Simulated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the 20th century with an ocean model forced by reanalysis-based atmospheric data sets
– Ocean Modelling 2016
Conference lecture

Simulated North Atlantic-Nordic Seas water mass ewchanges in an isopycnic coordinate OGCM
– EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly 2003
Conference lecture

NAO/AO variability in the coupled Bergen Climate Model
– EGS 27th General Assembly 2002
Academic article

Downscaling a twentieth century global climate simulation to the North Sea
– Ocean Dynamics 2007
Conference lecture

A first interactive carbon cycle climate run based on BCM
– Norclim Module 4 meeting 2008
Conference lecture

Did the opening of the Drake Passage play a significant role in Cenozoic cooling?
– EGU 2009
Academic article

North and equatorial Pacific Ocean circulation in the CORE-II hindcast simulations
– Ocean Modelling 2016
Conference lecture

Seasonal to decadal prediction with NorCPM
– AOGS 2014
Academic article

External forcing as a metronome for Atlantic multidecadal variability
– Nature Geoscience 2010
Academic article

The Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM1-M - Part 1: Description and basic evaluation of the physical climate
– Geoscientific Model Development 2013
Academic article

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
Academic article

An isopycnic ocean carbon cycle model
– Geoscientific Model Development 2010
Conference lecture

The role of Tethys Seaway in Cenozic climate
– Seminar at Le Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement 2009
Conference lecture

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming
– BCCR seminar 2021
Conference lecture

Inter-annual to Multi-centennial Variabilities of Simulated AMOC in an Earth System Model
– AGU Annual meeting 2018 2018
Conference lecture

Cenozoic cooling and the role of tropical seaways as a trigger for Antarctic glaciation
– Nan-Zhu International Research Centre annual meeting 2009
Conference lecture

Intercomparison of Arctic Ocean hydrography in ten different IPCC type coupled ocean/sea-ice models
– ECRA-ADSIMNOR workshop on Arctic climate 2013
Conference lecture

Intercomparison of arctic hydrography in IPCC type coupled ocean/sea-ice models and status for improving high-latitude ocean processes in NorESM
– SKD-Days 2013
Academic article

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
Conference lecture

Recent ocean model developments related to high latitude processes in NorESM
– SKD-Days 2012
Academic article

Interannual Scale Adjustment of the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation to the Atmospheric Forcing in a Global Air-Sea Coupled Model
– Journal of Climate 2002
Academic article

Response of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre to persistent North Atlantic oscillation like forcing
– Climate Dynamics 2009
Academic article

North Atlantic simulations in coordinated ocean-ice reference experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: mean states
– Ocean Modelling 2014
Conference lecture

North Atlantic water mass transformation in NorESM
– EVA meeting 2015
Conference lecture

NorESM2 - ocean updates for CMIP6
– C4MIP meeting 2016 2016
Faglig foredrag

MICOM Sensitivity to Eddy Induced Mixing
– Layered Ocean Model Meeting 2015
Faglig foredrag

NorESM_c1.2 Mean State and Variability
– EVA All staff meeting 2016
Conference lecture

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming.
– BAS Polar Oceans seminar 2023
Academic article

Simulated North Atlantic-Nordic Seas Water Mass Exchanges in an Isopycnic Coordinate OGCM
– Geophysical Research Letters 2003
Academic article

North and Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation in the CORE-II Hindcast Simulations
– Ocean Modelling 2016
Academic chapter

Ocean General Circulation Modelling of the Nordic Seas
– 2005
Academic article

Overview of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2) and key climate response of CMIP6 DECK, historical, and scenario simulations
– Geoscientific Model Development 2020
Conference lecture

Technical Coupling of ARPEGE/MICOM
– RegClim workshop 2000
Academic article

Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change
– Nature Climate Change 2020
Academic article

Description and Evaluation of the Bergen Climate Model: ARPEGE coupled with MICOM
– Climate Dynamics 2003
Conference lecture

Simulated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the 20th century with an ocean model forced by reanalysis-based atmospheric data sets
– European Geoscience Union General Assembly 2016 2016
Academic article

The sensitivity of the present day Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to anomalous freshwater input
– Geophysical Research Letters 2003
Conference lecture

Assessing Arctic climate change with the Norwegian Earth System Model
– MET Norway Arctic Forum 2022
Conference lecture

CMIP6/OMIP simulations of the Arctic Ocean and Resolution effects
– international symposium in remembrance of Prof. Yongqi Gao: The Ocean, Sea Ice and Northern Hemisphere Climate 2022
Academic article

Bergen Earth system model (BCM-C): model description and regional climate-carbon cycle feedbacks assessment
– Geoscientific Model Development 2010
Conference lecture

The Norwegian Earth System Model
– WorldTrans Workshop 2023
Conference lecture

The BCM system - updates and changes
– Bjerknes Getaway Seminar 2008
Conference lecture

Mechanisms for decadal scale variability in the North Atlantic Ocean circulation in the Bergen Climate Model (talk)
– European Geophysical Union 2012
Conference lecture

North Atlantic-Nordic Seas water mass exchanges in an isopycnic coordinate OGCM
– ICES/Bjerknes Minisymposium on Climate 2003
Conference lecture

Variability in a 300 years integration with the Bergen Climate Model
– NFR Climate and Ozon Programme 2001
Academic article

Evaluation of the carbon cycle components in the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM)
– Geoscientific Model Development 2013
Conference lecture

When enough is not enough: the Einfrastructure challenges in Climate Research
– NOTUR 2011 Conference 2011
Academic article

Tropical seaways played a more important role than high latitude seaways in Cenozoic cooling
– Climate of the Past 2011
Academic article

Ensemble data assimilation for ocean biogeochemical state and parameter estimation at different sites
– Ocean Modelling 2017
Academic article

An assessment of global and regional sea level for years 1993-2007 in a suite of interannual core-II simulations
– Ocean Modelling 2014
Academic article

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming
– Nature Geoscience 2021
Academic article

Gulf Stream Variability in Five Oceanic General Circulation Models
– Journal of Physical Oceanography 2006
Academic article

The sensitivity of the present-day Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to freshwater forcing
– Geophysical Research Letters 2004
Academic article

Simulated variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
– Climate Dynamics 2004
Conference lecture

Hexagon@University of Bergen, Norway
– CUG2017 - Caffeinated Computing 2017
Conference lecture

Overview of Bergen Earth system model
– Eur-Oceans & CARBOOCEAN Modellers Workshop 2008
Academic article

An assessment of the Indian Ocean mean state and seasonal cycle in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations
– Ocean Modelling 2020
Conference lecture

PALMORC project: simulation of late Jurassic climate
– 33rd International Geological Congress 2008
Conference lecture

Assessing the oceanic control on ECS in CMIP6
– Forces Annual Meeting 2022
Research report

Atmosphere-Ocean Modelling in Principle Task 4
– REGCLIM/NILU 2000
Conference lecture

Bergen climate model: Some results from a 300 years control integration
– Bjerknes seminar 2003
Conference lecture

Variability and trends in the Arctic Climate as Simulated with the Bergen Climate model
– First SEARCH Open Science Meeting 2003
Conference lecture

Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
– EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly 2003
Academic article

How representative is Svalbard for future Arctic climate evolution? An Earth system modelling perspective
– SESS report 2021
Popular scientific article

Variasjoner i Atlanterhavets dypvannssirkulasjon er styrt av Labradorhavet
– Cicerone 2002
Academic article

External forcing of the early 20th century Arctic warming
– Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 2013
Conference lecture

The 3rd iNES NorESM User Workshop
– The 3rd iNES NorESM User Workshop 2021
Academic article

Basin and Local-Scale Variability Modes of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation in a Global Air-Sea Coupled Model
– Geophysical Research Letters 2002
Academic article

Bringing it all together: Science priorities for improved understanding of Earth system change and to support international climate policy
– Earth System Dynamics (ESD) 2024
Academic article

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
Conference lecture

Atmospheric circulation key driver of observed regional sea level change
– ICCP seminar 2023
Conference lecture

Middle Pliocene simulation with NorESM-L
– PlioMIP workshop 2011
Conference lecture

Seasonal to decadal prediction with NorCPM
– Workshop on NAS predictability 2014
Academic article

The Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM1-M - Part 2: Climate response and scenario projections
– Geoscientific Model Development 2013
Academic article

Simulated pre-industrial climate in Bergen Climate Model (version 2): model description and large-scale circulation features
– Geoscientific Model Development 2009
Conference lecture

External forcing as a metronome for Atlantic multidecadal variability
– 10 th International Confernece of Paleoceanography (ICP10) 2010
Conference lecture

Temporal and spatial variability of the sea surface salinity in the Nordic Seas
– ICES/Bjerknes Minisymposium on Climate 2003
Academic article

Bergen earth system model (BCM- C): model description and regional climate-carbon cycle feedbacks assessment
– Geoscientific Model Development 2009
Academic article

Baroclinic instability of the Faroe Bank Channel overflow
– Journal of Physical Oceanography 2014
Conference lecture

Shutdown of Southern Ocean convection controls long-term greenhouse gas-induced warming
– Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022 2022
Conference lecture

Was AMOC stronger in the Mid-Pliocene, simulation with NorESM
– NZC annual meeting 2011
Academic article

Simulated variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
– Climate Dynamics 2003
Conference lecture

THE NAO/AO SIGNAL IN THE BERGEN CLIMATE MODEL: ARPEGE COUPLED TO MICOM
– Polar Science Center, University of Washington 2001
Faglig foredrag

Arctic Ocean simulations in two high-resolution coupled climate models
– European Geophysical Union 2024 2024
Academic article

Simulating the transport of radionuclides in the North Atlantic-Arctic region
– Journal of Enviromental Radioactivity 2003
Academic article

Flow-dependent assimilation of sea surface temperature in isopycnal coordinates with the Norwegian climate prediction model
– Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 2016
Academic article

Temporal and spatial variability of the sea surface salinity in the Nordic Seas
– Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) 2002
Academic article

An assessment of Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988-2007 in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations
– Ocean Modelling 2015
Conference lecture

NorESM User Workshop 2020
– NERSC, NORCE, MET, UiO 2020
Conference lecture

Diagnosing and Understanding the AMOC Biases in NorESM
– American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2014
Conference lecture

Seasonal-decadal prediction with the EnKF and NorESM: a twin experiment
– Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013 2013
Conference lecture

Simulating the climate from paleocene to present-daz and beyond: Challenges in climate modelling
– NOTUR 2011 2011
Conference lecture

Seasonal-decadal prediction with the EnKF and NorESM
– Bjerkneskonferansen 2012
Academic article

Transient response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation to enhanced freshwater input to the Nordic Seas-Arctic Ocean in the Bergen climate model
– Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 2004
Academic article

An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations. Part II: Liquid freshwater
– Ocean Modelling 2016
Academic article

Description and evaluation of NorESM1-F: a fast version of the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM)
– Geoscientific Model Development 2019
Academic article

Seasonal-to-decadal predictions with the ensemble kalman filter and the Norwegian earth System Model: A twin experiment
– Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 2014
Academic article

Enforcing conservation of axial angular momentum in the atmospheric general circulation model CAM6
– Geoscientific Model Development 2020
Conference lecture

NorESM2 and Climate Sensitivity
– MET Forskersamling 2022
Academic article

Effects of diapycnal and isopycnal mixing on the ventilation of CFCs in the North Atlantic in an isopycnic coordinate OGCM
– Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology 2003
Research report

Technical Coupling of ARPEGE/MICOM
– REGCLIM/NILU 2000
Academic article

JRA-55 based surface dataset for driving ocean-sea-ice models (JRA55-do)
– Ocean Modelling 2018
Conference lecture

The Bergen Climate Model: Results from a CMIP2 integration - regional aspects
– Bjerknes days 2002
Conference lecture

PALMORC project: simulation of late Jurassic climate
– 33th International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway 2008
Academic chapter

Seasonal to Decadal Temperature Variations in the Faroe-Shetland Inflow Water
– 2005
Academic article

Equilibrium simulations of Marine Isotope Stage 3 climate
– Climate of the Past 2019
Conference lecture

Mechanisms for decadal scale variability in the North Atlantic Ocean circulation in the Bergen Climate Model
– ASOF/THOR joint meeting 2011
Academic article

Mechanisms for decadal scale variability in a simulated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
– Climate Dynamics 2012
Academic article

An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations. Part I: Sea ice and solid freshwater
– Ocean Modelling 2016
Academic article

An assessment of the Arctic Ocean in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations. Part III: Hydrography and fluxes
– Ocean Modelling 2016
Academic article

North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part II: Inter-annual to decadal variability
– Ocean Modelling 2016
Academic article

Tracer-derived transit time of the waters in the eastern Nordic Seas
– Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology 2005
Academic article

A possible mechanism for the strong weakening of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre in the mid-1990s
– Geophysical Research Letters 2009
Conference lecture

Earth System Models
– SIOS Polar Night Week 2020
Conference lecture

Middle Pliocene simulation with NorESM
– PlioMIP workshop 2011
Academic article

Ocean biogeochemistry in the Norwegian Earth System Model version 2 (NorESM2)
– Geoscientific Model Development 2020
Conference lecture

How representative is Svalbard for future Arctic climate evolution? An Earth system modelling perspective.
– MET Norway Arctic Forum 2021
Conference lecture

Comparison between "no-eddy" and "eddy permitting" NorESM simulations
– 2014 Bjerknes Retreat 2014
Popular scientific article

Økt CO2 gir forandring i sirkulasjonsmønsteret
– Cicerone 2002
Conference lecture

Sea Level Projection and Reconstruction Unit (SeaPR) highlight talk: Regional sea-level change attribution with NorESM experiments
– Bjerknes Annual Meeting (BAM) 2022
Academic article

Pre-industrial and mid-Pliocene simulations with NorESM-L
– Geoscientific Model Development 2012
Academic article

An isopycnic ocean carbon cycle model
– Geoscientific Model Development 2009
Conference lecture

The NAO/AO signal in the fully coupled Bergen Climate Model
– European Geophysical Society - XXVI General Assembly 2001
Academic article

NorCPM1 and its contribution to CMIP6 DCPP
– Geoscientific Model Development 2021
Conference lecture

Decadal changes in anthropogenic carbon uptake in an isopycning ocean carbon cycle model
– 2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting 2008
Conference lecture

Implementation of a second order turbulence closure scheme for shear-driven mixing in NorESM
– Layered Ocean Meeting, 2013
Conference lecture

NorESM - status and plans for the Norwegian Earth System Model
– WCRP/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling, Paris 2008
Conference lecture

Influence of global mean sea-level rise on atmospheric and oceanic circulations
– IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) 2023
Academic article

Role of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation in the Tropical Pacific SST Changes
– Journal of Climate 2008
Academic article

North Atlantic ventilation using chlorofluorocarbons and idealised-tracer simulations
– Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology 2012
Conference lecture

An overview of modeling activities at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
– MANGLER 2003
Academic article

Coordinate Transformation on a Sphere Using Conformal Mapping
– Monthly Weather Review 1999
Academic article

Characteristics of the Nordic Seas overflows in a set of Norwegian Earth System Model experiments
– Ocean Modelling 2016
Academic article

Simulating transport of non-Chernobyl Cs-137 and Sr-90 in the North Atlantic-Arctic region
– Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 2004
Conference lecture

Seasonal-decadal prediction with the EnKF and NorESM: a twin experiment
– International workshop on seasonal to decadal prediction , 13-16 May, 2013 2013
Academic article

Sea surface temperature of the mid-piacenzian ocean: a data-model comparison
– Scientific Reports 2013
Conference lecture

NorESM User Workshop
– INES project Workshop 2019
Academic article

Atmospheric and oceanic circulation altered by global mean sea-level rise
– Nature Geoscience 2023
Academic article

CICE on a C-grid: New momentum, stress, and transport schemes for CICEv6.5
– Geoscientific Model Development 2024

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Mats Bentsen

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Research Groups

More information about Mats

Projects

INES2: Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System Modelling phase 2

MakingWaves: Wave-mediated atmosphere-ocean-sea-ice interactions and their climatic impacts in the Nordic Seas and eastern Arctic.

studies of Key Polar Ocean and Climate Processes with high-resolution coupled climate models

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