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POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Ice-ocean-atmosphere research in Svalbard using satellite and field data ? Promotion of Russian and Norwegian Ph.D. cooperation.

The Nansen Fellowship Program hosted by the Nansen Centers in Bergen and St. Petersburg facilitate supervision, stipend and international scientific exchange visits for young Russian Ph.D. students in the field of environmental and climate sciences. Their doctoral dissertations are completed at ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction

The SUP focuses on fundamental problems of atmosphere-ocean interaction, and provides the opportunity to conduct the following in-depth investigations, covering a 3-4 year time frame: 1. Fundamental studies of atmosphere-ocean flux processes 2. Interannu al variability of surface fluxes and ocea...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Implementation of the Curvi-linear Princeton Ocean Model 2000 for the North Norwegian coast

Oceanic models are fundamental and important tools in studies of oceanographic and ecological processes. Outside the coast of Norway, they have been used for studies of dispersal of planktonic organisms, shrimp larvae and capelin larvae etc. We propose to implement the POM2K for North Norwegian ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Integration of developmental and environmental forcing in life history models of planktonic organisms

In a longer perspective the proposed research aims at integrating certain aspects of two major, although separated, domains in current biology: The first domain extends from the molecule to the organisms, while the second extends from organism to populati on biology, biodiversity studies, and eco...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Impact of changing freshwater flows on the thermohaline circulation and European climate analysis and modelling of the last deglaciation

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Awarded: NOK 0.62 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Light and life in Norwegian waters: Physics/Biology based approach to satellite monitoring of primary production and algal blooms

The project I am involved in has the title “Light and Life in Norwegian waters: Physics/Biology based approach to satellite monitoring of primary production and algae blooms”. The project focuses on the further development of existing models for analysing satellite images in order to evaluate th...

Awarded: NOK 34,999

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Exchange visit at Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada and University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, for PhD student Arild Sundfjord

The NORKLIMA funded project CABANERA is a muliti-disciplinary project investigating the uptake and cycling of Carbon in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) of the Barents Sea. Similar investigations are being made on the opposite side of the Arctic Ocean, throug h the projects SBE, CASES and JWACS. PhD ...

Awarded: NOK 43,999

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Non-hydrostatic Ocean General Circulation Models

The tendency for human to operate in deeper waters, the increasing awareness of coastal and marine management, and the necessity for accurate parameterisations of unresolved processes in climate models have moved the process studies performed with Ocean General Circulation Models (OGCMs) to high...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

COMPAS

Based on relocation of the Principal Investigator from the USA to Norway, a group for interdisciplimary studies of climate dynamics will be established. COMPAS will fill the gap in the current understanding, and assess the impact, of the Atlantic Ocean o n the climate of Northern Europe and Nor...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Development and Coordination of the IGBP program on Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ II)

LOICZ is one of the eight core projects of IGBP studying the Earth system interactions. The project aims at better understanding of global environmental changes occurring in the coastal zone due to natural changes, such as climate and those due to changes in the global economy/trade and policy. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Variations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during rapid climate changes: calibration, modelling and palaeoceanographic ob

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Awarded: NOK 0.39 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Gjesteforeleser James Rennell 5.1.2005

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Awarded: NOK 9,999

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

External and internal forced variability of the Atlantic-European climate system over the last millennium - a model approach

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Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Vestland

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Spatial and temporal variability of currents and transport of warm waters towards the Nordic Seas: Analysis and synthesis

A four year program, started in 2000, based on measurements of currents, temperature and salinity across the North Atlantic between the Orkneys (UK) and Cape Farewell (Greenland) spans all warm waters flowing north in what is known as the global thermohal ine circulation (popularly known as the C...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

NoSerC - Norwegian Service Centre for Climate Modelling

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Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Use of new in situ observations in operational ocean forecasting

Emerging ocean observing systems - ARGO floats, ferry boxes and long range HF radar - promise to significantly increase the amount of in situ data available in near-real-time. In addition, concentional ship and buoy observations are expected become increa singly available in NRT. The project will...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

NoClim - Norwegian Ocean and Climate Project - Phase II

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Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Vestland

POLALV-Polarforskn./arktisk lys&varme

Atmosphere/Ice/Ocean Interaction Studies

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Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Ensemble forecasting and the ocean's mesoscale

Project summary: Despite the popularity of ensemble simulations for medium-range and long-range forecasts in meteorology, similar activities are rather sparse in the ocean modeling community. The abundance of mesoscale activity (such as eddies) off the Norwegian coast has been throughly document...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Oslo

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Processes governing air-sea CO2 transfer; an improved estimate for the North Atlantic

The project focuses on the issues of accurate parameterisation of the air-sea exchange rate and small scale biasing of air-sea flux estimates, aiming to provide an accurate estimate of the air-sea flux of CO2 in North Atlantic, and its inter-an nual variability. The project intends to ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Vestland

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Effect of longitudial Marangoni waves on the surface wave signature of a film covered ocean

Thin surface films cover large areas of the ocean surface. They are of biogenic as well as of antropogenic origin,i.e. chemical breakdown of dead organisms or petroleum spills from ships or offshore industry. Such films have a profound influence on the sh ort surface wave climate of the ocean. Th...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Temperature Variabilities and Trends in the Atlantic Ocean and the Nordic Seas Over the Last 50 years

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Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Vestland

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Boundary layer processes affecting dense water flow on a slope

Overflow at submarine ridges, and especially through channels is of the great importance for the global thermohaline circulation and interannual climate variability. Significant near-bottom mixing is usually observed within dense overflows from marginal s eas. These bottom-intensified currents co...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

OCTAS - Ocean Circulation and Transport Between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Sea

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Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2008

Location: Buskerud

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

ProClim - Polar Ocean Climate Processes

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Awarded: NOK 26.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climatic interactions between the ocean, sea-ice and the atmosphere in the Barents Sea region over the past 150 years

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Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Seasonal forecast of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations with troposphere-stratosphere models

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Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2005

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Decadal to century scale changes in the vertical water mass structure of the Norwegian Sea-climatic implications and possible forcing

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Awarded: NOK 0.91 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

ECOBE - Effects of North Atlantic Variability on the Barents Sea Ecosystem

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Awarded: NOK 22.0 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CABANERA - Carbon flux and ecosystem feed back in the northern Barents Sea in an era of climate change

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Awarded: NOK 20.3 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa