Into the Blue - Resolving past Arctic greenhouse climate

Project Information

i2B

Grant agreement ID: 101118519

DOI

10.3030/101118519

EC signature date 15 May 2024

Start date 1 November 2024

End date 31 October 2030

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 12 487 730,00

EU contribution

€ 12 487 730,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET
Norway

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Deliverables

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

Drafting of Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (31)

Continental-scale bias correction and random forest downscaling of CMIP6 precipitation across Europe

Author(s): Smit Chetan Doshi, Gerrit Lohmann, Monica Ionita, Carlo De Michele
Published in: Geocarto International, Issue 41, 2026, ISSN 1010-6049
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2026.2657618

Laboratory-grown crust in planktic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma; insights into resolving inaccuracies in polar palaeotemperature estimates

Author(s): Adele Westgård, Mohamed M. Ezat, Freya E. Sykes, Gavin L. Foster, Julie Meilland, Thomas B. Chalk, J. Andy Milton
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2026, ISSN 0016-7037
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.GCA.2026.04.027

Arctic fjord ecosystem adaptation to cryosphere meltdown over the past 14,000 years

Author(s): Jochen Knies; Youngkyu Ahn; Berenice Ebner; Lukas Smik; Kwangchul Jang; Seung-Il Nam; Simon T. Belt; Carsten J. Schubert
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-02251-Y

The changing nature of future Arctic marine heatwaves and its potential impacts on the ecosystem

Author(s): Ruijian Gou; Klara K. E. Wolf; Clara J. M. Hoppe; Lixin Wu; Gerrit Lohmann
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2025, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41558-024-02224-7

Deglaciation drove seawater infiltration and slowed submarine groundwater discharge

Author(s): S. ten Hietbrink; H. Patton; B. Dugan; B. Szymczycha; A. Sen; A. Lepland; J. Knies; J.-H. Kim; N.-C. Chen; W.-L. Hong
Published in: Nature Geoscience, 2025, ISSN 1752-0908
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41561-025-01750-Z

Compound Hot‐Dry Extremes Amplify Disproportionate Climate Risks for Low‐Income Nations

Author(s): Di Cai, Gerrit Lohmann, Xianyao Chen, Monica Ionita
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 53, 2026, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2025GL118822

Recoverability and Irreversible Information Loss in Physical Inference: Lessons From Quantum Measurement and Climate Reanalysis

Author(s): Gerrit Lohmann
Published in: Annalen der Physik, 2026, ISSN 1521-3889
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ANDP.202500556

Holocene climate driving spatially variable mercury input to an Arctic fjord environment

Author(s): Eun Jin Son, Ju Hyeon Lee, Kwangchul Jang, Youngkyu Ahn, Jochen Knies, Matthias Forwick, Jung-Hyun Kim, Seung-Il Nam, Sae Yun Kwon
Published in: Chemical Geology, Issue 695, 2025, ISSN 0009-2541
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.CHEMGEO.2025.123043

First-year sea ice history in the Arctic Ocean inferred from ancient DNA of Polarella glacialis over the past 50,000 years

Author(s): Kyle Michael James Mayers; Nele Manon Vollmar; Tristan Cordier; Agnes Katharina Maria Weiner; Juliane Müller; Aud Larsen; Stijn De Schepper
Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2026, ISSN 1385-013X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.EPSL.2025.119809

Changes in Sedimentary Organic Carbon Compositions in the Mackenzie Trough Over Recent Centuries: Insights Into Permafrost Thawing in the Canadian Arctic

Author(s): Dahae Kim; Jung‐Hyun Kim; Young Jin Joe; Youngkyu Ahn; Tommaso Tesi; Gerrit Lohmann; Sujeong Jeong; Seung‐Il Nam
Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2025, ISSN 2169-9291
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2025JC022652

Increased Arctic Sea‐Ice Variability Is Associated With Amplified Air‐Sea Heat Fluxes

Author(s): Yanni Wang, Gerrit Lohmann, Ruijian Gou, Huaming Yu, Xiao Hua Wang, Jun Meng, Jingfang Fan, Lixin Wu
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 53, 2026, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2025GL119415

Structural stability changes of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Author(s): Mihai Dima; Gerrit Lohmann; Gregor Knorr; Patrick Scholz; Denis Nichita
Published in: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2024, ISSN 2397-3722
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-3688887/V1

Regional conditions determine thresholds of accelerated Antarctic basal melt in climate projection

Author(s): Pengyang Song; Patrick Scholz; Gregor Knorr; Dmitry Sidorenko; Ralph Timmermann; Gerrit Lohmann
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2025, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41558-025-02306-0

Ice-proximal sea-ice reconstruction in Powell Basin, Antarctica since the Last Interglacial

Author(s): W. W. Khoo; J. Müller; J. Müller; J. Müller; O. Esper; W. Xiao; C. Stepanek; P. Gierz; G. Lohmann; G. Lohmann; G. Lohmann; W. Geibert; J. Hefter; G. Mollenhauer; G. Mollenhauer; G. Mollenhauer
Published in: Climate of the Past, 2024, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/CP-21-299-2025

A paleoclimate reference record spanning the last 1 million years from the Fram Strait (Sites U1621 and U1623, IODP Expedition 403)

Author(s): A. González-Lanchas; B.T. Reilly; M.A. Bárcena; S. De Schepper; A.C. Gebhardt; J. Gruetzner; K. Husum; Y. Rosenthal; Y. Suganuma; Y. Zhong; R.E.M. Rickaby; A.K.I.U. Kapuge; L.R. Monito; J. Yeon; R.G. Lucchi; K. St. John; T.A. Ronge; L. Duxbury; G. Goss; N. Greco; L. Haygood; M. Iizuka; A.R. Lam; O. Libman-Roshal; Y. Liu; Y. Sakai; A.V. Sijinkumar
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, 2026, ISSN 1872-6364
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.QUASCIREV.2026.109838

Enhancing climate variability in earth system models through paleo-informed nudging of sea surface temperatures

Author(s): V Skiba, L Ackermann, N Hirsch, Y Sun, A M Dolman, G Lohmann, T Laepple
Published in: Environmental Research: Climate, Issue 5, 2026, ISSN 2752-5295
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2752-5295/AE3A08

Diatom lipids open window to past ocean temperatures in the polar regions

Author(s): Simon T. Belt, Lukas Smik, Denizcan Köseoğlu, Claire S. Allen, Katrine Husum, Jochen Knies
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 7, 2026, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-03177-1

Into the Blue: An ERC Synergy Grant Resolving Past Arctic Greenhouse Climate States

Author(s): Jochen Knies; Gerrit Lohmann; Stijn De Schepper; Monica Winsborrow; Juliane Müller; Mohamed M. Ezat; Petra M. Langebroek
Published in: Challenges, 2025, ISSN 2078-1547
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/CHALLE16030036

Sequence of abrupt transitions in Antarctic drainage basins before and during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

Author(s): Christian Wirths, Antoine Hermant, Christian Stepanek, Thomas F. Stocker, Johannes C. R. Sutter
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-65375-X

Natural hydrocarbon seepage at the Northeast Greenland continental shelf

Author(s): Christoph Böttner; Frank Werner Jakobsen; Tove Nielsen; Monica Winsborrow; Stephane Polteau; Adriano Mazzini; Sverre Planke; Katrine Juul Andresen; Oliver Jon Sigurd Millinge; Muhammad Rizwan Asif; Jan Sverre Laberg; John Hopper; Reidun Myklebust; Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-02932-8

Modeling the Late Pliocene with AWI-CM3 as a contribution to PlioMIP3 core experiments

Author(s): Fernanda DI Alzira Oliveira Matos; Christian Stepanek; Sven Harig; Jan Streffing; Qiong Zhang; Zhenqian Wang; Katherine Power; Tido Semmler; Dmitry Sidorenko; Patrick Scholz; Sergey Danilov; Paul Gravis; Gerrit Lohmann
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, 2026, ISSN 1872-6364
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.GLOPLACHA.2025.105196

Configuration of circum-Antarctic circulation at the last green- to icehouse climate transition

Author(s): Hanna S. Knahl, Johann P. Klages, Lars Ackermann, Katharina Hochmuth, Lu Niu, Nicholas R. Golledge, Gerrit Lohmann
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 123, 2026, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2520064123

Arctic freshwater outflow suppressed Nordic Seas overturning and oceanic heat transport during the Last Interglacial

Author(s): Mohamed M. Ezat, Kirsten Fahl, Tine L. Rasmussen
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-53401-3

Sea ice variability from the penultimate glacial to the last interglacial in the eastern Fram Strait

Author(s): Kristine Steinsland, Danielle M. Grant, Kirsten Fahl, Ruediger Stein, Tine L. Rasmussen, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Ulysses S. Ninnemann, Jochen Knies, Julie Heggdal Velle, Stijn De Schepper
Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Issue 663, 2025, ISSN 1872-616X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.PALAEO.2025.112779

Eurasian ice sheet formation promoted by weak AMOC following MIS 3

Author(s): Lu Niu, Gregor Knorr, Lars Ackermann, Uta Krebs-Kanzow, Gerrit Lohmann
Published in: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2397-3722
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41612-025-00982-5

Atlantic cod growth model: Open source Python package for numerical growth experiments

Author(s): Nadezhda Sokolova, Anja Rohner, Martin Butzin, Hans-Otto Pörtner, Gerrit Lohmann
Published in: SoftwareX, Issue 30, 2026, ISSN 2352-7110
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOFTX.2025.102113

Mechanisms Driving the Extensive Antarctic Bottom Water in the Glacial Atlantic

Author(s): Yugeng Chen; Pengyang Song; Xianyao Chen; Gerrit Lohmann
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, 2025, ISSN 1944-8007
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2025GL114809

A Prolific Tertiary Source Rock of Terrestrial Origin in the Eastern Nordic Seas

Author(s): Jochen Knies; Stephen Killops; Trond Brekke; Kari Grøsfjeld; Kasia K. Sliwinska; Sverre Planke; Carmen Gaina; Giuliana Panieri; Claudio Argentino; Ute Mann; Wiktor Bönke; Tomas Kjennerud; Rune Mattingsdal
Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2025, ISSN 1873-4073
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.MARPETGEO.2025.107637

Impact of glacial-interglacial cycles on the groundwater system of the Lofoten-Vesterålen continental margin, Norway, since the Last Interglacial

Author(s): Sophie ten Hietbrink, Brandon Dugan, Henry Patton, Wei-Li Hong
Published in: Hydrogeology Journal, Issue 34, 2026, ISSN 1431-2174
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10040-025-02994-0

Seasonal sea ice characterized the glacial Arctic-Atlantic gateway over the past 750,000 years

Author(s): Jochen Knies; Lukas Smik; Pengyang Song; Monica Winsborrow; Henning A. Bauch; Gerrit Lohmann; Simon T. Belt
Published in: Science Advances, 2025, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIADV.ADU7681

Finite observability, conservation laws, and state-dependent effective laws: a Ludwig-style perspective on climate physics

Author(s): Gerrit Lohmann
Published in: Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A, 2026, ISSN 0932-0784
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/ZNA-2026-0041