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| Rasmus E. Benestad. Photo: Bård Gudim. Download picture 1,5 MB |
Title: Senior researcher
E-mail: rasmus.benestad@met.no
Phone: (+47) 2296 3377
Research Interests:
- Climate change - enhanced greenhouse effect, the effect of solar activity on climate
- Empirical-statistical downscaling
- Seasonal forecasting
- Data analysis
- Communication of scientific knowledge
- El Niño Southern Oscillation
- Solar influency on climate
Projects Involvement:
- SPAR - Seasonal Predictability over the Arctic Region - exploring the role of boundary condition
http://projects.met.no/spar/
Education:
- D.Phil from Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary physics, Oxford university, UK;
Thesis title: "Intraseasonal Kelvin waves in the Tropical Pacific" (pdf). - M.S. in Physics with atmospheric option from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA; Thesis title: "Study of Large Drops in Maritime and Continental Cumuli"
- B.Sc. Hons. in Physics and Electronics from UMIST, Manchester, UK
Recent publications:
- I.S.A. Isaksen, C. Granier, G. Myhre, T.K. Berntsen, S.B. Dalsøren, M. Gauss, Z., Klimont, R. Benestad, P. Bousquet, W. Collins, T. Cox, , V. Eyring, D. Fowler, S. Fuzzi, , P. Jöckel, P. Laj, U. Lohmann, M. Maione, P. Monks,
A.S.H. Prevot, F. Raes, A. Richter, B. Rognerud, M. Schulz, D. Shindell, D.S. Stevenson, T. Storelvmo, W.-C. Wang, M. van
Weele, M. Wild, D. Wuebbles (2009):
"Atmospheric Composition Change: Climate-Chemistry interactions",
Atmospheric Environment 43 (2009) 5138?5192 - Benestad, R.E.:
"Downscaling Precipitation Extremes: Correction of Analog Models through PDF Predictions"
Theor. & Appl. Clim, DOI: 10.1007/s00704-009-0158-1. - Benestad, R.E. and Schmidt, G.A.:
"Solar trends and global warming",
JGR-atmospheres, 114, D14101, doi:10.1029/2008JD011639. - Benestad, R.E. (2009):
"On Tropical Cyclone Frequency and the Warm Pool Area"
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 9, 635-645, 2009
(earlier version: "An explanation for the lack of trend in the hurricane frequency", arXiv 'physics/0603195') - [31] Snäll T, Benestad R.E, Stenseth N.C (2009):
"Expected future plague levels in a wildlife host underdifferent scenarios of climate change",
Global Change Biology (2009) 15, 500-507, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01725.x
Textbooks:
- Benestad, R.E., Hanssen-Bauer, I. And Chen, D.(2008):
"Empirical-Statistical Downscaling",
World Scientific Publishers, ISBN 978-981-281-912-3;
Free Compendium (pdf) on empirical-statistical downscaling (2007) - Benestad, R.E. (2002, 2005):
"Solar Activity and Earth's Climate",
Praxis-Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, 287pp, ISBN: 3-540-43302-3
