people

Josh Dorrington, MSCA postdoctoral fellow, UiB, 2024-2026
Pragallva Barpanda, MSCA postdoctoral fellow, UiB, 2023-2025
Birgit Rinde, PhD student, UiB, 2023-
Hari Ramesh, PhD student, UiB, 2021-
Dandan Tao, researcher, UiB

Andrea Rosendahl, MS 2024 (current position: research assistant, MET Norway)
Fabio Mangini, PhD 2022 (current position: researcher, NERSC)
Etienne Dunn-Sigouin, postdoc (current position: researcher, NORCE Climate)
Peter Y.F. Siew, PhD 2021 (current position: postdoc, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Erica Madonna, postdoc (current position: researcher, Swiss Federal Office of Energy)
Fumiaki Ogawa, researcher (current position: assistant professor, Hokkaido University, Japan)
Clio Michel, postdoc (current position: researcher, MET Norway)
Sebastian Schemm, postdoc (current position: assistant professor, ETH Zurich)
Laura Ciasto, postdoc (current position: meteorologist, Climate Prediction Center/NOAA)
Aleksi Nummelin, PhD 2016 (current position: research professor, Finnish Meteorological Institute)
Zhongshi Zhang, postdoc (current position: senior researcher, NORCE Climate)
Helene Asbjørnsen, MS 2016 (current position: postdoc, UiB)
Raymond Sellevold, MS 2015 (current position: meteorologist, Agder Energi)
Svetlana Sorokina, PhD 2014 (current position: research adviser, UiB)
Ingo Bethke, PhD 2012 (current position: researcher, UiB)
Francesco Pausata, PhD 2010 (current position: professor, Université de Québec à Montréal)

selected projects

Synoptic Precursors for deveLoping Improved Constraints on Extreme Rainfall (SPLICER), Horizon MSCA, 2024-2026

Atmospheric blocking under global warming - sources of uncertainty in climate predictions and projections, Horizon MSCA, 2023-2025

Physiological basis of insect community responses to climate change, Research Council of Norway FRIMEDBIO, 2022-2027

Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions over Key Regions of the Arctic and Their Linkages to Midlatitudes, Research Council of Norway POLARPROG, 2022-2026

Nansen Legacy, Research Council of Norway, 2018-2023

Constraining the Large Uncertainties in Earth System Model Projections with a Big Data Approach (COLUMBIA), Research Council of Norway FRINATEK, 2018-2022

Dynamics of Arctic-Midlatitude Teleconnections: mechanisms, robustness and tropical modulation (DynAMiTe), Research Council of Norway KLIMAFORSK, 2016-2020

Changed weather-related risks by reducing global warming by half a degree (HappiEVA), Research Council of Norway, KLIMAFORSK, 2016-2018

Atmospheric jet variability: linking STRucture, Evolution And Mechanisms (jetSTREAM), Research Council of Norway FRIPRO, 2014-2018

publications

• Siew, P.Y.F., C. Li, S.P. Sobolowski, E. Dunn-Sigouin and M. Ting, Circulation responses to surface heating and implications for polar amplification, WCD, 5, 985-996, 2024. link
  
  
• Dörr, J., M. Årthun, D. Docquier, C. Li and T. Eldevik, Causal links between sea¿ice variability in the Barents-Kara Seas and oceanic and atmospheric drivers, GRL, 51 (7), e2024GL108195, 2024. link
  
  
• Spensberger, C., C. Li and T. Spengler, Linking instantaneous and climatological perspectives on eddy-driven and subtropical jets , J. Climate, 36, 8525-8537, 2023. link
  
  
• Vaittinada Ayar, P., D.S. Battisti, C. Li, M.P. King, M. Vrac and J.F. Tjiputra, A regime view of ENSO flavours through clustering in CMIP6 models, Earth's Future, 11, e2022EF003460, 2023. link
  
  
• Risebrobakken, B. et al., Buoyancy forcing: a key driver of northern North Atlantic sea surface temperature variability across multiple timescales, Clim. Past, 19 (5), 1101-1123, 2023. link
  
  
• King, M.P., N. Keenlyside and C. Li, ENSO teleconnections in terms of non-NAO and NAO atmospheric variability, Clim. Dyn., doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06697-8, 2023. link
  
  
• Outten, S., C. Li, M.P. King, L. Suo, P.Y.F. Siew et al., Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling, WCD, 4, 95-114, 2023. link
  
  
• Woollings, T., C.Li, M. Drouard, E. Dunn-Sigouin et al., The role of Rossby waves in polar weather and climate, WCD, 4, 61-80, 2023. link
  
  
• Brown, N.J., C. Mauritzen, C. Li, E. Madonna, P.E. Isachsen and J.H. LaCasce, Rapid response of the Norwegian Atlantic Slope Current to wind forcing, JPO, 53(2), 389-408, 2023. link
  
  
• Simmonds, E.G. et al., Insights into the quantification and reporting of model-related uncertainty across different disciplines, iScience, 25, 2022. link
  
  
• Smedsrud, L.H., et al., Nordic Seas heat loss, Atlantic inflow, and Arctic sea ice cover over the last century, Rev. Geophys., 60, e2020RG000725, 2022. link
  
  
• Michel, C., E. Madonna, C. Spensberger, C. Li and S. Outten, Dynamical drivers of Greenland blocking in climate models, WCD, 2, 1131-1148, 2021. link
  
  
• Madonna, E., D.S. Battisti, C. Li and R. White, Reconstructing winter climate anomalies in the Euro-Atlantic sector using circulation regimes, WCD, 2, 777-794, 2021. link
  
  
• King, M.P., C. Li and S. Sobolowski, Resampling of ENSO to Northern Hemisphere teleconnections, WCD, 2, 759-776, 2021. link
  
  
• Siew, P.Y.F., C. Li, M. Ting, S.P. Sobolowski, Y. Wu and X. Chen, North Atlantic Oscillation in winter is largely insensitive to autumn Barents-Kara sea ice variability, Sci. Adv., 7, 2021. link
  
  
• Seidenglanz, A., P. Athanasiadis, P. Ruggieri, I. Cvijanovic, C. Li and S. Gualdi, Pacific circulation response to eastern Arctic sea ice reduction in seasonal forecast simulations, Clim. Dyn., 2021. link
  
  
• Dunn-Sigouin, E., C. Li and P.J. Kushner, Limited influence of localized tropical sea-surface temperatures on moisture transport into the Arctic, GRL, 48, e2020GL091549, 2021. link
  
  
• Mangini, F., L. Chafik, E. Madonna, C. Li, L. Bertino and J.E.Ø. Nilsen, The relationship between the eddy-driven jet stream and northern European sea level variability, Tellus A, 73, 1-15, 2021. link
  
  
• Madonna, E., G. Hes, C. Li, C. Michel and P.Y.F. Siew, Control of Barents Sea Wintertime Cyclone Variability by Large-Scale Atmospheric Flow, GRL, 47, e2020GL090322, 2020. link
  
  
• Siew, P.Y.F., C. Li, S. Sobolowski and M.P. King, Intermittency of Arctic-midlatitude teleconnections: stratospheric pathway between autumn sea ice and the winter NAO, WCD, 1, 261-275, 2020. link
  
  
• Michel, C., C. Li, I.R. Simpson, I. Bethke, M.P. King and S. Sobolowski, The change in the ENSO teleconnection under a low global warming scenario and the uncertainty due to internal variability, J. Climate, 33, 4871-4889, 2020. link
  
  
• Eldevik, T., L.H. Smedsrud, C. Li, M. Årthun, E. Madonna, L. Svendsen, The Arctic Mediterranean. Interacting Climates of Ocean Basins: Observations, Mechanisms, Predictability, and Impacts, C.R. Mechoso, Ed., Cambridge University Press, 2020. link
  
  
• Hell, M., T. Schneider and C. Li, Atmospheric circulation response to short-term Arctic warming in an idealized model, J. Atmos. Sci., 77, 531-549, 2020. link
  
  
• Madonna, E., C. Li and J.J. Wettstein, Suppressed eddy driving during southward excursions of the North Atlantic jet on synoptic to seasonal time scales, Atmos. Sci. Lett., 20:e937, 2019. link
  
  
• Roberts, W.H.G, C. Li and P.J. Valdes, The mechanisms that determine the response of the Northern Hemisphere's stationary waves to North American Ice Sheets, J. Climate., 32, 3917-3940, 2019. link
  
  
• Graff, L.S. et al., The "NorESM1-Happi" used for evaluating the role of ocean and sea-ice feedbacks under global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C, Earth Syst. Dynam., 10, 569-598, 2019. link
  
  
• Li, C. and A. Born, Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics in Dansgaard-Oeschger events, QSR, 203, 1-20, 2019. link
  
  
• Schemm, S., G. Rivière, L. Ciasto and C. Li, Extratropical cyclogenesis changes in connection with tropospheric ENSO teleconnections to the North Atlantic: Role of stationary and transient waves, J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 3943-3964, 2018. link
  
  
• Tandon, N.F., P.J. Kushner, D. Docquier, J.J. Wettstein and C. Li, Reassessing the role of sea ice drift in Arctic sea ice loss, JGR, 123, 4338-4359, 2018. link
  
  
• King, M.P., I. Herceg-Bulić, I. Bladé, J. García-Serrano, N. Keenlyside, F. Kucharski, C. Li and S. Sobolowski, Importance of late fall ENSO teleconnection in the Euro-Atlantic sector, BAMS, 99, 1337-1343, 2018. link
  
  
• Li, C., C. Michel, L.S. Graff, I. Bethke, G. Zappa, T.J. Bracegirdle, E. Fischer, B. Harvey, T. Iversen, M.P. King, H. Krishnan, L. Lierhammer, D. Mitchell, J. Scinocca, H. Shiogama, D.A. Stone and J.J. Wettstein, Midlatitude atmospheric circulation responses under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming and implications for regional impacts, Earth Syst. Dynam., 9, 359-382, 2018. link
  
  
• Woollings, T., E.A. Barnes, B. Hoskins, Y.-O. Kwon, R. Lee, C. Li, E. Madonna, M. McGraw, T. Parker, R. Rodrigues, C. Spensberger and K. Williams, Daily to decadal modulation of jet variability, J. Climate, 31, 1297-1314, 2018. link
  
  
• Madonna, E., C. Li, C. Grams and T. Woollings, The link between eddy-driven jet variability and weather regimes in the North Atlantic-European sector, QJRMS, 143, 2960-2972, 2017. link
  
  
• Spensberger, C., T. Spengler and C. Li, Upper tropospheric jet axis detection and application to the boreal winter 2013/14, Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 2363-2374, 2017. link
  
  
• Nummelin, A., C. Li and P.J. Hezel, Connecting ocean heat transport changes from the mid-latitudes to the Arctic Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 1899-1908, 2017. link
  
  
• Sellevold, R., S. Sobolowski and C. Li, Investigating possible Arctic-midlatitude teleconnections in a linear framework, J. Climate, 29, 7329-7343, 2016. link
  
  
• Ciasto, L.M., C. Li, J.J. Wettstein and N.G. Kvamstø, North Atlantic storm track sensitivity to projected sea surface temperature: local versus remote influences, J. Climate, 29, 6973-6991, 2016. link
  
  
• Schemm, S., L. Ciasto, C. Li and N.G. Kvamstø, Influence of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature on the genesis of Gulf Stream cyclones, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 4203-4214, 2016. link
  
  
• Shaw, T.A., M. Baldwin, E.A. Barnes, R. Caballero, C.I. Garfinkel, Y.-T. Hwang, C. Li, P.A. O’Gorman, G. Rivière, I.R. Simpson and A. Voigt, Storm track processes and the opposing influences of climate change, Nature Geosci., 9, 656-664, 2016. link or read-only version
  
  
• Nummelin, A., M. Ilicak, C. Li, L.H. Smedsrud, Consequences of future increased Arctic runoff on Arctic Ocean stratification, circulation and sea ice cover, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 120, 617-637, 2016. link
  
  
• Sorokina, S.A., C. Li, J.J. Wettstein, N.G. Kvamstø, Observed atmospheric coupling bewteen Barents Sea ice and the Warm-Arctic Cold-Siberia anomaly pattern, J. Climate, 29, 495-511, 2016. link
  
  
• Nummelin, A., C. Li and L.H. Smedsrud, Response of Arctic Ocean stratification to changing river runoff in a column model, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 120, 2655-2675, 2015. link
  
  
• Zhang, Z., G. Ramstein, M. Schuster, C. Li, C. Contoux, Q. Yan, Aridification of Sahara caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during Late Miocene, Nature, 513, 401-404, 2014. link
  
  
• Eldevik, T. et al., A brief history of climate - the northern seas from the Last Glacial Maximum to global warming, Quat. Sci. Rev., 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.028, 2014. link
  
  
• Dokken, T.M., K.H. Nisancioglu, C. Li, D.S. Battisti, C. Kissel, Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic Seas, Paleocean., 28, 491-502, 2013. link
  
  
• Lam, P.J., L.F. Robinson, J. Blusztajn, C. Li, M.S. Cook, J.F. McManus and L.D. Keigwin, Transient stratification as the cause of the North Pacific productivity spike during deglaciation, Nature Geosci., 6, 622-626, 2013. link
  
  
• Smedsrud, L.H. et al., The role of the Barents Sea in the Arctic climate system, Rev. Geophys., 51, 415-449, 2013. link
  
  
• Telford, R.J., C. Li and M. Kucera, Mismatch between the depth habitat of planktonic foraminifera and the calibration depth of SST transfer functions may bias reconstructions, Clim. Past, 9, 859-870, 2013. link
  
  
• Bethke, I, C Li and KH Nisancioglu, Can we use ice sheet reconstructions to constrain meltwater for deglacial simulations?, Paleocean., 27, doi:10.1029/2011PA002258, 2012. pdf+link
  
  
• Li, C and JJ Wettstein, Thermally driven and eddy-driven jet variability in reanalysis, J. Climate, 25, 1587-1596, 2012. pdf
  
  
• Pausata, FSR, C Li, JJ Wettstein, KH Nisancioglu and M Kageyama, The key role of topography in altering North Atlantic atmospheric circulation during the last glacial period, Clim. Past, 7, 1089-1101, 2011. link
  
  
• Li, C, DS Battisti and CM Bitz, Can North Atlantic sea ice anomalies account for Dansgaard-Oeschger climate signals?, J. Climate, 23, 5457-5475, 2010. pdf
  
  
• Pausata, FSR, C Li, JJ Wettstein, KH Nisancioglu and DS Battisti, Changes in atmospheric variability in a glacial climate and the impacts on proxy data: a model intercomparison, Clim. Past, 5, 489-502, 2009. pdf
  
  
• Li, C and DS Battisti, Reduced Atlantic storminess during Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence from a coupled climate model, J. Climate, 21, 3561-3579, 2008. pdf and Figure 2 corrigendum
  
  
• Li, C, DS Battisti, DP Schrag and E Tziperman, Abrupt climate shifts in Greenland due to displacements of the sea ice edge, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023492, 2005. pdf
  
  
• Li, C, P Tercier and R Knight, Effect of sorbed oil on the dielectric properties of sand and clay, Water Resourc. Res., 37(6), 1783-1794, 2001. pdf
  

• 2007 Li, C. A general circulation modelling perspective on abrupt climate change, Ph.D. thesis, University of Washington. pdf