497 498 Acknowledgments 499 500 501 The field work and KD received fund<strong>in</strong>g from <strong>the</strong> Research Council of Norway through <strong>the</strong> NESSAR project (# 176057). This is publication number XXX from <strong>the</strong> Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. 24
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