Halldór Björnsson

Lead a small group that manages weather data, takes care of quality control, automated processing and climatological statistics.

Design and manage continuous workflow for weather and climate data.

Expert advice on and analysis of climate reanalysis data (esp. ERA5, and CARRA) and on climate model data (esp. CMIP6).

Provide estimates of climate change impacts based on CMIP6 data. Provide analysis of sea level data and statistical analysis of Delt3D-FM model results.

Chair the Climate Impact Assessment Committee for Iceland, perform climatological analysis of observations and model projections and oversee the publication of impact assessment report.

Participate in the Icelandic Climate Council and the Climate Services and Adaptation Center at the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

Lead a group of researchers and developers that takes part in various research and developement activities, such as working with the Harmonie/Arome model, the Deltares Delft3D-FM model and related models. Also work with the group on weather data management, processing and statistical analysis.

Lead the Climate Change Impact Assessment for Iceland, perform climatological analysis of observations and model projections and oversee the publication of impact assessment report.

Participate in research on wind energy, volcanic eruptions, climate change impacts on natural systems.

Collaborate with researchers on climate data analysis, work on the analysis of weather data, volcanic eruption cloud data.

Development of methods for the analysis of climate data, based on observations and model data, including reanalysis.

Design and manage R packages for internal work and python routines for web applications.

Lead research projects on wind energy, climate change in Iceland and volcanic clouds,

Extensive climate data analysis, observations, reanalysis and climate projection data.

Lead a large group of researchers and developers who worked on weather, river flooding and avalanche hazards, managed the revamping of the duty work system for the forecasting meteorologists and replacement of various automated systems for the institute.

Lead a Climate Change Impact Assessment for Iceland, perform analysis of CMIP3 model projections for Iceland and initiate climate adaptation planning.

Visiting scholar at the Ouranos Consortium and and University de Quebec a Montreal, with a focus on regional climate modelling, regional climatology and adaptation to Climate Change.

Teaching courses in Atmospheric Physics and in Classical Mechanics

Weather and Climate data analysis. Data homogenization and curation. Ocean modelling and participation in research projects on climate change impacts on glaciers and hydrology. Design and implementation of automatic procedures for weather data quality control.

Research on the oceanic thermohaline circulation. Extensive work with the Modular Ocean Model (MOM2).

Sea Ice modelling of Polynyas, participation in the North Water Polynya project.

Teaching and research assistantships while in the PhD program at the Depeartment of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University

Teach an introductory course on Paleoclimate, current and future climates

Teaching the course Introduction to Atmospheric Science