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ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Geomagnetic storms, and the identification of source and loss processes of ring current particles

This is a study of the geomagnetic storm with focus on the ring current. The aim is to identify the source and loss processes for the ring current particles. In order to perform this investigation a multi-observational approach will be used where the Clus ter satellites together with the NOAA sat...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Theoretical, experimental and numerical studies of waves and turbulence in space plasmas

The project is directed towards studies of nonlinear wave phenomena and turbulence in space plasmas. One of the goals for the activity is the study of turbulent transport, with emphasis on turbulence in magnetized plasmas. The activity will contain an eff ort concentrated on studies of the turbul...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Investigation of the stormtime ring current using cluster and low-altitude NOAA data in conjunction with ENA images from the IMAGE satellite

This will be a joint project between the Space Physics Groupe at University of Bergen (UiB), Norway, and the Space Physics Group of the Space Department of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), USA. Dr. Pontus Brandt at JHU/AP L and professor Finn Søraas at UiB. JHU/A...

Awarded: NOK 64,999

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Auroral imaging from space to study solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling

Based on simultaneous conjugate global imaging from space by IMAGE FUV and Polar VIS Earth camera this project will resolve the following scientific questions: - Quantitatively determine how the IMF and Earths dipole tilt lead to twisting of the magnetota il, resulting in highly asymmetric conjug...

Awarded: NOK 85,000

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

The polar upper atmosphere and beyond. Cooperation with North West Russian

Russia is a potential new member of EISCAT. DoP has a long history of cooperation in ionospheric research with scientists from several institutes in Russia. In this project we want to strengthen this cooperation in theoretical work as well as by performin g experiments on the EISCAT/Heating facil...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Experimental and theoretical investigations of dust related phenomena in the Earth's upper atmosphere

Processes in the upper atmosphere which involve neutral and charged dust particles, will be investigated experimentally and theoretically. Such are i) the radar PMSE layers occurring between 80 and 90 km height during the summer months, and which is asso ciated with the highest altitude clouds i...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Oslo-Berkeley collaboration on CLUSTER-Svalbard data

The U.C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) is currently heavily involved in analysis of data from the Cluster ion composition instrument, the electric field instrument and the magnetic field instrument. The University of Oslo Group also cooperated with SSL in hardware and software developm...

Awarded: NOK 90,000

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Norwegian Participation in the Planck LFI Instrument and Cosmology with the Nordic Optical Telescope

The European Planck mission will from 2007 map in detail the Cosmic Microwave Background with sensitivity and resolution unreachable by any other planned experiment, making possible answering fundamental questions of cosmology such as: What is the precise age of the Universe? How will it end? Wh...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Anomalous transport phenomena in turbulent geospace and laboratory plasma.

The project is an interdisciplinary effort to comprehend "strange" kinetic processes in turbulent plasmas in connection with topological features of the underlying self-organized quasi-stationary state. In collaboration with mathematicians at the Universi ty of Tromsø, we intend to bring together...

Awarded: NOK 0.23 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-STP-Statsstipendprogram, utlendinger

Donnelly, Ryan Francis, GB, STP 0405

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Awarded: NOK 51,000

Project Period: 2004-2005

Location: Ukjent Fylke

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Cluster II: Research Iniatives by Norwegian Groups

Cluster science in the participating Norwegian groups is centered around studies of processes in the magnetospheric cusp and on studies of substorms and storms. The four spacecraft configuration is particularly well suited for these studies. FFI is involved with two experiments on Cluster II, one...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

The polar upper atmosphere and beyond. Studies based on advanced radar technology, satellite data, and signal processing.

This project concerns the use of the EISCAT radar facilitites, and other ground based research facilitites, in northern Norway and on Svalbard as well as the CLUSTER II satellites in studies of the upper and middle polar atmosphere. With emphasis is on lo cal ionospheric irregularities using nove...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Effects of energetic electron precipitation on the upper atmosphere

The main objective of this project is to study the effects of the electron precipitation on the upper atmosphere, such as changes in the chemical composition with focus on changes in the NO concentration, NO plays a crucial role in the lower thermosphere and in the upper mesosphere, and can destr...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2006

Location: Vestland

GENPROG-Generelle programmer

Drift av SOUSY-radaren på Svalbard

SOUSY-radaren er et viktig supplement til EISCAT og det er et ønske at denne skal drives videre etter at Max Planck instituttet har besluttet at de ikke ønsker å opprettholde driften av radaren. Universitetet i Tromsø er villig til å overta det formelle a nsvaret for driften frem til en ny EISCAT...

Awarded: NOK 0.49 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Improved transport equations for fully ionized gases

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Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Cluster II: Research Initiatives by Norwegian Groups

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Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2004

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

TARGIT - ICI-1 (True Auroral Research by Ground-based and In-situ Techniques - Investigation of Cusp Irregularities)

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Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2005

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Time series of rocket in situ observations of phenomena in the Earth´s middle atmosphere.

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Awarded: NOK 2.2 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2004

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

TARGIT - EISCAT (True Auroral Research by Ground-based and In-situ Techniques)

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Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Oslo

GENPROG-Generelle programmer

EISCAT - Future

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Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2004

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Cluster II: Research Iniatives by Norwegian Groups

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Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2002-2006

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Studier av energetisk elektronnedbør - magnetosfæredynamikk og effekter i atmosfæren

Denne søknaden gjelder studier av energetisk elektronnedbør målt med røntgenkameraet PIXIE på POLAR satellitten og andre korrelerte bakke og satelittmålinger. Søknaden innbefatter også et stipend for å gjennomføre et dr.scient.-studium ved Seksjon for rom fysikk, Fysisk institutt, Universitetet i...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2005

Location: Vestland