Norway
Øyvind Paasche is a research professor and Head of the Climate Dynamics Department at NORCE, Director of Climate Futures, and 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. In recent 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 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? (in Norwegian) together with Erik Kolstad; and was a contributing author to the 4th IPCC 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 Climate Futures (2020-2028), ArcticPassion (EU, 2021-2026) and Impetus for Change, I4C (EU, 2022-2027) and GoNorth (2022/23-2026) 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), on the Scientific Steering Committee for the large international initiative Synoptic Arctic Survey (SAS) and on the board for the 10-year project called Arctic Ocean 2050.