Halldór Björnsson

Meteorologist
Department of Research and Processing
Icelandic Meteorological Office

University education

I obtained my bachelor in Geophysics from the department of physics at the University of Iceland, in 1993.

In the fall of 1993 I went to lovely Montreal and enrolled at McGill University to study meteorology in the Department of Atmosphere and Ocean Science. Through the interaction with various members of the department and the folks at the Centre for Climate and Global Change Research I soon realized that the way to study meteorology was to also study oceanography and climate. The department at McGill was a wonderful place for studying climate, meteorology and oceanography in a broad, integrated manner.

I completed my PhD thesis in 1997. My supervisor was Lawrence A. Mysak . The next winter I worked at McGill, as a post doctoral fellow doing research on Polynyas, and also teaching an undergraduate course in Meteorology.

In the fall of 1998 I moved to Princeton, to work at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory through the Program in Atmosphere and Ocean Science in the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University .

My research at GFDL focused on the very basic aspects of the general circulation of the oceans, and how this relates to climate. For details see here

In the fall of 2000 I moved back to Iceland and was employed at the Research and Processing division of the Icelandic Met Office.

Current position

Following a departmental reorganization at the Met Office, in early 2004 I became the head of research and developement at the Met Office.

If you haven't had enough, I also have a CV, but it's out of date and I don't think it is entertaining....

And furthermore

In the winter of 1998 I taught the course Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences at McGill. This course is basically an introductory meteorology course. The course website has all the details.
In the winter of 1997 I tought a part of a course in the department of Geography at McGill. The course is called Climate past, present and future, and the webpages for the course were used by almost all of the students taking the course.