Øyvind

SVP

NORCE

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. Paasche has authored and co-authored around 50 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?" (2022) together with Erik Kolstad; and was a contributing author to the 4th IPPC report of 2007 (The Physical Science Basis).