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NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Sources of Greenhouse Gases in East Asia

China is now the largest emitter of anthropgenic CO2 greenhouse gas, yet emission inventories of CO2 and other greenhouse gases over China and more generally over east Asia are poor. Fo planning mitigation measures and attributing sources of greenhouse g ases, it is of fundamental importance to ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Ocean acidification research cooperation between Norway and USA

The project forms a continuation of a process aimed at developing coordinated scientific research projects between institutes responsible for advice on protection of the marine environment to the governments in Norway and USA. Institute of Marine Research and four institutes of the National Ocea...

Awarded: NOK 24,999

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Advancing Modelling and Observing solar Radiation of Arctic sea-ice -- understanding changes and processes

This project is designed to (i) improve the quantification of the surface energy balance of the ice covered Arctic Ocean, and (ii) increase the understanding of mechanisms leading to observed changes. The project will combine autonomous observations from drifting buoys, manned in-situ observatio...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Gjesteforsker Insuring Future Climate Change

Peter Guttorp is professor in statistics at the University of Washington. He is a very recognized within modeling of climate. He has been active in IPCC work and is listed among the 21 statistician participating in IPCC. NR has made an agreement with Gutt orp that he will visit NR in 4-6 weeks pe...

Awarded: NOK 91,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Mechanisms of the air-surface exchange of organic pollutants and mercury in a Chinese subtropical forest

Project summary The overall aim of the project is to develop tools and conceptual frameworks to evaluate the mechanisms controlling the inter-compartment exchange of long range transported semivolatile persistent pollutants (SVPPs) in a forest soil system , in order to provide elements to link po...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Utenlandsstipend for prosjektet: Constraining total feedback of the climate system by observations and models

Det søkes om støtte for et 3 måneders opphold i Reading, England for PhD student Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie. Der vil hun arbeide sammen med Keith Shine og hans gruppe. I Reading skal PhD student Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie arbeide med usikkerhet i parametre i energibalansemodellen og med usikkerhet ...

Awarded: NOK 37,999

Project Period: 2009-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

From Climate Knowledge to Local Adaptation - How can we strengthen the adaptation capacity of local government?

This project aims at developing new knowledge and measures relevant for strengthening local government capacity for adaptation to climate change. This will be analysed in a multi level and cross-sector context aiming at understanding how adaptation strate gies to climate change can be co-ordinate...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

N2O emissions from N saturated subtropical forest in South China

Surplus of reactive nitrogen (Nr) is one of China's most pressing environmental problems, and may cause a positive feedback to climate change through increased N2O emission. We previously found that forests in sub-tropical China receiving high atmogenic N loads (> 4g N m-2 yr-1) differ in their ...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Long range Transport of black carbon and the effect on Snow albedo in north-east China and in the Arctic

Black carbon (BC) atmospheric particles originate from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel and biomass. These particles are black due to their strong absorption of solar radiation. Via long range transport, BC particles reach the Arctic and deposit i n the snow where even relatively small am...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

East Asian DecCen: Exploring Decadal to Century Scale Variability and Changes in the East Asian Climate during the last Millennium

The climate in East Asia is very complex, with profound variations on seasonal, interannual and longer time scales. On seasonal time scales, the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) is dominating, leading to heavy rainfall in June, July and August along th ousands of kilometres long rain belts aff...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Security Implications of Climate Change

The project moves the research frontier forward on two fronts: 1) by applying an inclusive definition of armed conflict, also covering one-sided and non-state conflicts and organized urban violence; and 2) by paying attention to the role of two largely ov erlooked processes with significant chall...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Conditions for change in international climate policy: The role of China, the US and the EU

In terms of climate policy approaches as well as ambitions, the U.S and the EU represent opposite extremes. The U.S. has spearheaded the non-UN track while the EU has been the main proponent of the UN process. China is a key player within both tracks. Imp ortant changes may, however, be underway....

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Improving international cooperation on emission abatement

A deeper, broader and methodologically varied analysis of international climate cooperation: * International climate treaty design. Extending game theoretic models to analyse the effects of novel mechanisms on incentives for participation, compliance and enforcement in future international clim...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Managing Risk in Climate Change - A Dynamic Perspective

Current debate on climate policy is confounded by the deep uncertainty pertaining to how greenhouse gases affect the global climate and how the global climate change will affect the human ecosystem. Further, the current tools for economic analysis are not capable of satisfactorily dealing with t...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Visiting guest scientist Peter J. Dillon to NIVA

Prof. Peter J. Dillon is one of the world's leading limnologists. He is a specialist on the effects of pollution and climate change on freshwater ecosystems. He has conducted top research in eutrophication, acid deposition, micro-pollutants (especially me rcury), and climate change (see CV for de...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Adapting to climate change through land use planning and nature management: Obligations, rights, and risks.

I løpet av rapporteringsperioden er det levert en masteroppgave med tittelen "Naturskadeforsikring: organisering og dekningsomfang", skrevet av Adnan Maric. Naturskadeforsikring er en privat forsikringsordning som er en obligatorisk komponent i de fles te brannskadeforsikringer. Ting som er fors...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Insuring Future Climate Change

We will prioritize non-life insurance and, in particular, damages to private and public property, buildings, installations and infrastructure, focusing on Norway. Research will be from an applied point of view, reflecting problems and challenges posed by the insurance business itself. The appli...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Designing feasible and efficient climate policies

No policy can be implemented or sustained for any length of time without public support. Several important examples of failures to implement new Piougivan tax schemes bear testimony to this. In order to design Pigouvian taxes that are both efficient and f easible we need to understand why it is s...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Norwegian Sea one hundred years after

To summarize the state-of-the-art for the Nordic Seas oceanography by arranging a workshop where international experts will be invitaded.

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The role of values in adaptation to climate change: A Q-Methodology Approach as an integration tool for the PLAN project

PLAN is a coordinated, social science-based research project that analyzes the potentials of and limits to adaptation as a response to climate change in Norway. This four-year project will provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of adaptation a s a social process, with an emphasis on i...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Using the ensemble approach to model Arctic species distributions to reconstruct past climate based on plant macrofossils

To assess the sensitivity of species in the Arctic area to climate change it is important to understand the relationship between species distributions and climate. Recently, there has been a major development within species-climate modelling with the ense mble approach developed by Araújo and New...

Awarded: NOK 74,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

ArcAct - Unlocking the Arctic ocean: The climate impact of increased shipping and petroleum activities

Petroleum and shipping activities at higher latitudes have increased considerably over recent years, and a significant further increase is expected. Melting of sea ice will open opportunities for new shipping routes and lengthen the navigation season of e xisting routes, as well as open new areas...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Climate feedbacks of aerosols via water vapour in cloud free air

AERO-CLO-WV will investigate aerosol-cloud-water vapour feedback mechanisms which have previously not been studied in depth and quantified. Thus the proposal is highly relevant to the call with detailed studies of processes and feedback mechanisms. It wil l complement the work in the scenario pro...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

NORKLIMA III: Variability of Albedo Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

A particularly important process in the Arctic surface energy budget is the snow/ice albedo feed-back which contributes considerably to polaramplification of global warming (Køltzow et al., 2007). This process, whereby increased temperatures cause melting of highly reflective snow/ice covered ar...

Awarded: NOK 14.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CarboSeason - Calibrating the carbon climate feedback in models through the observed seasonal cycle

The positive global carbon cycle climate feedback to anticipated human induced climate change is of 1st order importance (IPCC AR4, 2007). The present spread in model predictions of this feedback is of the same order of magnitude as CO2 emission reduction s which are currently under discussion by...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Modelling ecosystems under climate change: Windermere as a model lake system

Climate profoundly affects ecosystem functioning, as well as human populations inhabiting and exploiting ecosystems. Hence, climate change is likely to have serious ecological, economic and societal consequences that it is urgent to investigate. Here we p ropose to develop a complete matrix commu...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate change adaptation in Norway, sweden and Finland - do research, policy and practice meet?

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Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate change adaptation in Norway, sweden and Finland - do research, policy and practice meet?

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Awarded: NOK 93,695

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CARAVAN - Climate change: A Regional Assessment of Vulnerability and Adaptive capacity for the Nordic countries

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Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CIRCLE - Climate Change, Community Response and Multilevel Governance

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Awarded: NOK 0.33 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke