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ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

In Situ,Remote,and Laboratory Investigations of Mesospheric Aerosols/Dust and Their Role in Atmospheric Chemical and Physical Processes.

MAXIDUSTY-II (MXD-II) prosjektet er sentrert omkring en rakett-nyttelast som vil undersøke is og støvpartikler i jordens midlere atmosfære ove ca 80 km. MXD-II vil inneholde opp til 6 forskjellige is -og støvprober, noen av fullstendig ny konstruksjon, som vil g i oss verdifull ny informasjon om...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Solar-Terrestrial Coupling through High Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere: a Norwegian contribution (HEPPA-Norway)

Å forstå solas påvirkning på jordas midlere atmosfære, lavere atmosfære og overflateklima er fokus for mange store internasjonale vitenskapelige programmer. Betydningen av solas påvirkning sammenlignet med menneskeskapt påvirkning over tidsskalaer fra minutter til århundrer er fortsatt ikke klarl...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Akershus

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Vortex flows and magnetic tornadoes on the Sun and cool stars

Den algoritme for å oppdage virvelstrømmer på solen ble ytterligere forbedret, testet og brukt på tidligere beregnet sett av 3D magnetohydrodynamiske simuleringer. Den nye algoritmen kombinerer flere stadier: (1) Bestemmelse av hastighetsfeltet. (2) Vortex deteksjon (3) Etterbehandling (4) Vi...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskn

Birkeland Center for Space Science (BCSS)

Denne presentasjonen er det senterleder skrev som en introduksjon til rapporten som dekker årene 2013-2023. En fyldig oversikt over hva vi har oppnådd i løpet av disse 10 årene vil man finne i denne rapporten, som kan lastes ned fra: https://birkeland.uib.no/ ------- Denne rapporten vil ikke bare...

Awarded: NOK 160.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2023

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Meso-scale plasma flow channels and their potential space weather effects

The ionospheric cusp is a very complex region of the polar cap ionosphere. As high resolution measurements become available, meso-scale structures are revealed. However, only recently the resolution has become sufficient and coverage available to study me so-scale phenomena in detail. In the last...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

PermaSAR: SAR detection of permafrost landscape changes in northern Norway and on Svalbard

En av hovedoppgavene i forskningsrådsprosjektet PermaSAR er å bruke satellitt radar-interferometri (InSAR) til å produsere kart som viser bevegelse av bakken i områder med permafrost, og å karakterisere sesongmessige fryse- og tineprosesser. I august 2013 installerte Norut en stasjon for å overv...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Simultaneous Retrieval of Aerosol and Water Quality Parameters from Ocean Colour Data in High-Latitude Coastal Waters

Feltarbeid er utført i havområder i Lofoten for å samle inn data om vannets optiske egenskaper og innhold av ulike marine substanser i form av alger, gulstoff og uorganiske partikler. Arbeid er utført for å bruke disse data til å lage bio-optiske modeller for kystvann i Nord-Norge. Videre har man...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

GOCE studies of mean dynamic topography and ocean circulation in the high latitude and Arctic Ocean (GOCE-MDT).

Den nye geoiden fra GOCE satellitten har gitt forbedrete muligheter til å studere sammenhengen mellom den midlere dynamiske havhøyde og strømsystemene i de Nordiske Hav og Polhavet. Sammen med direkte målinger i havet har dette gitt sikrere estimat av nordgående varmetransport og videre styrket m...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Mesopause temperatures by lidar

The mesopause region at high latitudes in summer is the coldest place in Earth's atmosphere (T ~ 130 K). It is located about 80 km to 100 km above the ground. Because of the distance, small density, and daylight conditions for 24 hours, measurements are generally difficult and rare. However, know...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Filament Dynamics in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas

The topic of my dissertation are investigations of turbulent motions and fluctuation-driven transport in the edge region of magnetically confined plasmas. Since early fusion experiments, one universally observes high fluctuations in the edge region of mag netically confined plasmas. In the outerm...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Strategic Core Activities for the Space Physics group at the University of Bergen (SCASP-UiB)

Prosjektet omhandler både sol-jord vekselvirkning (Cluster), konjugert nordlys (global avbildning) og studier av jordiske gammaglimt. Postdoc/forsker som er knyttet til prosjektet har delvis fokusert på jordiske gammaglimt og Cluster studier, som avtalt. Prosjektet knytter seg også opp ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Space weather effects in the upper atmosphere on navigation signals

Prosjektet studerer plasma irregulariteter i den øvre atmosfæren som forstyrrer signaler fra navigasjonssatellitter (GPS, GLONASS og GALILEO). For å dokumentere effektene har vi installert mottakere på fire steder: Ny-Ålesund, Longyearbyen, Hopen og Bjørnøya. For inntil 120 satellitter samtidig, ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Multiseasonal, multifrequency, multipolarization, and multiresolution radar speckle and feature tracking for Arctic glacier velocities

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Cluster Multi-Spacecraft Studies of Energy and Mass Transport in the Magnetosphere

With this project, we plan to utilize scientific data from the Cluster mission in order to obtain a better understanding of energy transport and physical processes in the terrestrial magnetosphere. Specifically, we plan to address the following scien ce issues : a) Try to estimate the net lo...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Terrestrial Gamma Flashes - the Most Energetic Photon Phenomenon in our Atmosphere

Gjennom ASIM prosjektet har vi utviklet en detektor modul for måling av gamma-fotoner som blir produsert i forbindelse med tordensystemer, de såkallte terrestrial gamma flashes (TGF), eller jordiske gammaglimt. Vi videreutvikler dette modulære konseptet for å optimalisere instrumentets egenskaper...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2016

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Investigation of Arctic rivers runoff, spread and role in global carbon cycle using the Earth Explorer - SMOS

CO2 is the major anthropogenic forcing factor for climate change. Marine CO2 sink depends on CO2 concentration which, in turn is strongly dependent upon the input of organic carbon from land with river discharge. Dissolved fraction of organic carbon (DOC) in riverine waters spreads over vast oce...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Observations of Middle Atmopshere Dynamics by Na Lidar

Atmospheric gravity waves have a significant impact on the dynamics of the middle atmosphere. For instance breaking gravity waves lead to a momentum flux convergence and an acceleration of the background flow. Due to the filtering of gravity waves in the stratosphere, the acceleration of the bac...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

High Arctic gravity waves and their impact on middle atmospheric circulation and temperature

Prosjektets mål var å karakterisere tyngdebølger observert i mesosfæren ca 90 km over Svalbard og prøve å finne en sammenheng mellom tyngdebølgene og variasjoner i temperatur og vind i mesosfæren. På Kjell Henriksen Observatoriet (KHO) utenfor Longyearbyen på Svalbard, finns verdens største samli...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2017

Location: Svalbard

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Imaging of auroral fine scale structures and dynamics

We will continue our studies of the Naturally Enhanced Ion Acoustic Lines (NEIALs) as observed with the EISCAT radars. This project also has a technical part, namely the development and utilisation of interferometric and novel imaging techniques (Aperture Synthesis Imaging Radar, ASIR) to fully ...

Awarded: NOK 0.77 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

ICI 2011-2013: Investigation of cusp irregularities and GNSS scintillations by sounding rockets

There is a well documented phenomenological relationship between the northern lights, polar cap patches, and scatter of HF radio waves, but the underlying processes remain to be understood. GHz frequencies used in critical infrastructure, for satellite co mmunication and navigation systems, are a...

Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

MAXIDUSTY - investigations on dust particles in the Earths summer and winter mesosphere

Dust and aerosols are major components in all height regions of the Earths atmosphere. They affect the radiation balance of the Earth, atmospheric chemical reactions occur on them, they affect and can dominate the electric charge balance, and they can be sources and sinks for important ...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

The Modular X-ray and Gamma Sensor (MXGS) on Atmosphere-Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM) and the study of Terrestrial Gamma Flashes

As ASIM is now moving into the implementation phase, we want to strengthen the Norwegian ASIM team both regarding scientific research and technical support. By requesting a post-doctoral fellowship we will attack some of the unresolved questions related to terrestrial gamma flashes (TGF). This ...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Impact of meteor showers on mesospheric smoke particles - Geminides campaign

This proposal concerns expenses for launching and data analysis of a campaign to be carried out in 2010, in cooperation with Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) in Kühlungsborn, Germany. This application is for the Norwegian part (approx 50%) of the co sts. We will launch rockets from Andøya ...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Akershus

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

BepiColombo: Mefisto: Mercury Electric Field In-Situ TOol

The BepiColombo orbiters to Mercury, the ESA Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the JAXA Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) will make observations of many sides of the planet possible; the interior and the surface of Mercury, the planet's magnetic fiel d and magnetosphere and the interaction b...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

The Norwegian Cluster studies 2010-2012

This is a joint project submitted by researchers from the University of bergen (UiB), the University of Oslo (UiO), the University Studies on Svalbard (UNIS) and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (NDRE) to support Norwegian Cluster studies for 2010-2012. The main themes of the propos...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Vestland

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Infrastructure for space physics related research on Svalbard.

Svalbard har en unik geografisk plassering for rom-relaterte studier, og muliggjør både direkte og proxy studier av hvordan partikler fra solen påvirker vårt nære verdensrom. Universitetssenteret på Svalbard (UNIS) eier og drifter to store forskningsinstallasjoner for studier av prosesser i den ø...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2022

Location: Svalbard

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Gravity-wave sources and scales in the Polar Regions and their effect on Polar Mesospheric Clouds

Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMC) are tenuous ice clouds forming in the polar regions near 81 km during the summer months in conditions resulting from the dynamic wave forcing of this region. PMC are at the limits of their existence, and changes in their den sity or occurrence rate have been cited a...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

PLASMA PHENOMENA IN THE EARTHS NEAR SPACE ENVIRONMENT

The proposal addresses parts of the STAR-project at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo. One of the basic problems addressed by the STAR-project is analysis and interpretation of data from instrumented spacecrafts. We propose a study of plasma p henomena in the Earths near and also more...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

SPEAR - a high power ionospheric modification facility for Svalbard

SPEAR (Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar) is a new 25 MNOK multi-purpose facility that exploits high power radio technology in a completely new way. It is a ground-based HF radar with the capability of artificially modifying the upper atmosphere, a t different altitudes, in a controlled ma...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Svalbard

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Experimental and theoretical investigations of the summer and winter mesosphere, with special emphasis on the role of charged dust particles

The Earths mesosphere contain some intriguing phenomena such as the noctilucent clouds (NLC), the highest clouds in the atmosphere near the coldest region in it, and the radar clouds PMSE and PMWE which occur in the summer and winter in different height r egions. It appears that the strength of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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