73 projects

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KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

Exploiting the synergy of recent airborne atmospheric observation campaigns in the European Arctic

We invite interested researchers to a four-day conference-like workshop to jointly explore the synergy of atmospheric measurements from different research aircraft that were used simultaneously during field campaigns in the European Arctic in recent years. Our goal with this workshop is to identi...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes Workshop 2026

The 24th Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes (ASOF) workshop will be hosted in Bergen on April 21-23, 2026. The workshop will welcome about 100 researchers in different fields, and the special theme of the 2026 workshop is “Celebrating 150 years of Nordic Seas Research”. The venue for the workshop will...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2026

Location: Vestland

FORSKSYSTEMET-FORSKSYSTEMET

The Norwegian Research School for Climate-Informed Innovation and Decision-Making

Climate change affects most parts of society, from our economy, environment and health to the way we produce energy. But the lack of active collaboration and knowledge exchange between climate scientists and the public and private sector impedes our ability to manage climate risks effectively. Co...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2033

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSKNING-KLIMAFORSKNING

GYRE-induced variability in North Atlantic circulation - Dynamics and impacts on overturning

The large-scale circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean plays a key role in regulating climate by transporting warm, salty waters northward along the borders of the subtropical gyre and the subpolar gyre within the extended Gulf Stream system. The role of variable gyre circulation in modulating t...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Isotope-aided assessment and forecasting of hydroclimatic extremes in Scandinavia through stakeholder co-design

Floods and droughts have large consequences for society and economy in Scandinavia. Knowledge about if and how such extreme events are connected to snow on the ground is limited. This lack of knowledge imparts our ability to predict how much water will run through rivers and is stored in dams wit...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Snow D-excess OriGin Study

The chemistry of water is influenced by the climatic conditions at every step on the path throughout the water cycle, hence water “remembers” the climate history of this path. When water freezes this information is preserved throughout time. So any snow and ice sample has a climate story to tell,...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Overturning circulation in the new Arctic

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) - carrying warm, salty water to high latitudes - is a key component of the global ocean circulation with profound impacts on climate. Dense-water formation at northern high latitudes is a requirement to sustain the AMOC. This production of de...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Mechanism and prediction of the new Arctic climate system (MAPARC)

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021) emphasized that “the linkage between Arctic warming and mid-latitude circulation is an example of contrasting lines of evidence that cannot yet be reconciled.” The MAPARC project was launched to confront this scie...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Accelerated Arctic and Tibetan Plateau Warming: Processes and Combined Impact on Eurasian Climate

The Arctic and Tibetan Plateau have warmed 2–3 times faster than the global warming rate since the late twentieth century. COMBINED aims to better understand interactions between the rapid warming of these two poles, as well as other remote and regional feedback processes. These complex interact...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Isotopic Transfer Rates During Water Phase Changes

What insights would we gain by directly observing the processes that regulate atmospheric water vapor? The iTRANSFER project is poised to provide us with a precise and accurate means to accomplish this. Water, in its various forms, is not a homogenous substance. It comprises distinct types of wa...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

FJO2RD: The effect of climate change on the deep water renewal frequency of Norwegian fjords

The fjords of western Norway are breathtakingly beautiful – but ever so often, the media reports on the situation beneath the glittering fjord surface, and the image they share from the fjord depths is less pretty. Under the combined pressure of anthropogenic activity and climate change, many of ...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

POLARTEMA-POLARTEMA

Climate response to a Bluer Arctic with increased newly-formed winter Sea ICe (BASIC)

For years, scientists have debated whether – and how – Arctic warming and sea-ice loss influence weather and climate further south. The BASIC project is helping to resolve this debate by studying the “new Arctic”, a region increasingly defined by more open water in summer (a 'bluer' Arctic) and b...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

KlimaNinja- en fotonovelle om klimaforskning i tre deler

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Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2023

Location: Vestland

FORSTERK-Forsterkningsmidler

Increasing the impact of supermodelling climate research in Norway

The Earth is undergoing rapid climate change that is affecting society and ecosystems worldwide. Numerical models are essential to provide key information on climate change to develop adaptation and mitigation strategies and is needed by public and private sectors. This information forms the basi...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Vestland

MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak for miljø- og utviklingsforskning

The International Project Office of the World Climate Research Program’s Climate and Cryosphere Project (IPO-CliC)

Awarded: NOK 0.97 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2023

Location: Vestland

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

Role of oceandynamics and Ocean-Atmosphere interactions in Driving cliMAte variations andfutureProjections of impact-relevant extreme events

ROADMAP aimed to expand current understanding of how the Northern Hemisphere (NH) oceans’ surface state (temperature, sea ice cover) and dynamics (water movement) influence the extratropical atmospheric circulation and associated weather and climate extreme events. The project did this across a w...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

The Norwegian node for the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory

NorEMSO is a coordinated, large-scale deep-ocean observation facility establishing a Norwegian node for the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO, http://www.emso-eu.org/). EMSO is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). Norway joined EMSO in 2021. E...

Awarded: NOK 60.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2030

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Stimuleringsmidler til EU-prosjektet AtlantOS

H2020 prosjektet AlantOS tar sikte på å optimalisere og integrere innsamling av data som beskriver Atlanterhavets fysiske og kjemiske miljø, dets økologiske status og utvikle et enhetlig og harmonisert observasjonssystem innenfor rammeverket av GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) og GEOSS (Globa...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

The Role of Atmospheric Waves in Arctic-midlatitude Linkages

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the globe. This warming is accompanied by profound changes in polar regions, including a shrinking sea ice cover, the loss of permafrost, and a moistening of the atmosphere. Coincident with this period of Arctic change, there has been ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Vestland

MILUTARENA-Formidlings- og koordineringstiltak for miljø- og utviklingsforskning

YSSP-opphold ved IIASA i 2018

YSSP

Awarded: NOK 21,012

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Vestland

INT-BILAT-BILAT-ordningen

JSPS stipend, Yuki Kanno: Lagrangian and Eulerian analyses of cold air outbreaks in East Asia and North America

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Awarded: NOK 0.38 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Vestland

INTPART-International Partnerships for Excellent Education and Research

Advanced Climate Education and Research

Climate change is increasingly referred to as the greatest challenge of our time. The former President of the United States, Mr. Obama stated that "no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a change in climate". Informed decision-making hinges on the availabili...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Sesongmessig klimavarsling i Norskehavet

The EU Blue-Action project has provided fundamental and empirically grounded, executable science that quantifies and explains the role of a changing Arctic in increasing predictive capability of weather and climate of the Northern Hemisphere. It has involved both climate scientists and stakeholde...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Marine cold air outbreaks at high-latitudes: Dynamics and imprints of mesoscale features

Each winter season, small but vigorous storms develop over the Nordic Seas. The forceful winds, rough seas, and heavy snowfall accompanying these winter-storms cause substantial material damage and even loss of life. Besides the evident material impact of these storms, they also play an important...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Sources of the Norwegian winter season snow pack constrained by stable water isotopes

Water vapour transport in the atmosphere contributes substantially to the uncertainty in weather and climate predictions. Better understanding of the water cycle is important for better preparedness against precipitation extremes, and for the management of renewable energy resources. In the S...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

TOPOGRAPHIC BARRIERS CONTROLLING WARM WATER INFLOW AND ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF MELTING

The floating ice shelves fringing Antarctica are melting at an accelerating rate, mainly due to relatively warm (above freezing) water carried to the ice base by ocean currents. The "warm" water is found in the deep ocean, north of the relatively shallow continental shelves surrounding the contin...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2023

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

PATHWAY - Pathways, processes, and impacts of poleward ocean heat transport

The overall aim of PATHWAY is to understand the formation and propagation of warm and cold conditions with the Gulf Stream extension toward the Arctic, how these variations in ocean temperature interact with the atmosphere, and, hence, affect climate over land and its predictability. Results ...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2022

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Impact of Greenland's Ice Loss on the Meridional Overturning Circulation

Ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet quadrupled in the last two decades and is projected to further increase. One important consequence of this ice loss is sea level rise. A second, largely overlooked consequence is the freshening of the waters of the Nordic Seas and subpolar North Atlantic and ...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Unifying Perspectives on Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions during Cyclone Development

Extratropical cyclones are a key feature of the mid-latitude climate and weather, where air-sea interactions play a crucial role in their genesis and intensification, yielding model uncertainties and forecast challenges. Understanding these interactions between ocean sea surface temperature front...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Dynamics of Arctic-Midlatitude Teleconnections: mechanisms, robustness and tropical modulation

Global warming has accelerated in the last decade. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Arctic, where rising temperatures and shrinking sea ice cover have garnered much media attention. These Arctic changes could have important impacts away from the Arctic as well, and these are less well u...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Vestland

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