Research Teams

The Birkeland Centre for Space Science (BCSS) started in March 2013. It is led from the Department of Physics and Technology at the University of Bergen (UiB) with nodes at NTNU and UNIS. The overarching scientific objective of the BCSS is to understand ”How the Earth is coupled to space”. Under this title we have formulated three main questions where we have identified fundamental gaps in our knowledge:

1. Why is geospace asymmetric and what are the important scales of its dynamics?
2. What are the effects of particle precipitation on the atmospheric system?
3. What is the role of energetic particles from thunderstorms in geospace?

Dynamics of the Asymmetric Geospace

Why is geospace asymmetric and what are the important scales of its dynamics?

Karl M. Laundal Team Leader

Hard Radiation from Thunderstorms

What is the impact of energetic particles from thunderstorms on geospace

Nikolai Østgaard Team Leader

Particle Precipitation

What are the effects of particle precipitation on the atmospheric system?

Hilde Nesse Team Leader

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

M. Lessard, A. Damsell, F. B. Sadler, K. Oksavik, and L. Clausen (2023), Interhemispheric Asymmetries of Neutral Upwelling and Ion Upflow, Front. Astron. Space Sci., 10:1151016, doi:10.3389/fspas.2023.1151016, 2023
van Caspel, W.E., P. Espy, R. Hibbins, G. Stober, P. Brown, C. Jacobi, J. Kero, E. Belova, A case study of the solar and lunar semidiurnal tide response to the 2013 major sudden stratospheric warming event, J. Geophys. Res.: Atmospheres, doi.org/10.1029/2023JA031680
Emmert, J. T., Jones, M. Jr., Siskind, D. E., Drob, D. P., Picone, J. M., Stevens, M. H., Bailey, S. M., Bender, S., Bernath, P. F., Funke, B, Hervig, M. E., and Pérot, K. (2022), NRLMSIS 2.1: An empirical model of nitric oxide incorporated into MSIS, J. Geophysical Res.: Space Physics, doi.org/10.1029/2022JA030896