213 projects

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KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Natural and Anthropogenic influence on Precipitation and EXtreme events Naturlige og antropogene påvirkninger på nedbør og ekstremnedbør

Precipitation changes and especially changes in extreme precipitation are some of the most important challenges for future climate change. Differences among climate models for future precipitation changes are high. NAPEX tries to understand why there are so big differences between different clima...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

No-analogue climates and ecological responses in the past and future (NoAClim)

"Fossil pollen and climate models suggest a messy world in 2100, as surviving species reshuffle into entirely new combinations, creating 'no-analogue' ecosystems" (Fox 2007, Science 316:823). This project is designed to test this scenario for Norden and t he Baltic Countries. Its approach is to d...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Workshop for NOAA-IMR for understanding climate effects on fisheries

There is a tremendous research activity on understanding how climate change effects will affect the biological production of the oceans. Understanding the reaction patterns of ecosystems to environmental changes require enormous efforts of laboratory stu dies, observations, and complex physical ...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Climate change effects on the fungal ecosystem component

Climate change is globally the most extensive and the fastest process of environmental change, affecting all species and their habitats. ClimFun will study the effects of climate change on fungi in four interrelated work packages (WPs) dealing with change s in: (1) distributional ranges of fungi,...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

The IPCC AR5 In Europe: Usability, framing and communication of scientific climate information

In order to optimize return for research investment, improved understanding of the transfer, circulation and engagement of knowledge between the scientific and decision-making communities in different contexts and in different European countries is necess ary. The project builds a better underst...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Adaptive capacity to climate change -personal overseas fellowship

The personal overseas researcher grant will facilitate and undertake critical tasks for the accomplishment of Critical Aspects of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in the Northern Regions (working title CAVIAR-II) funded by NORKLIMA (project number ES-4 83216). CAVIAR-II is an on-going project ...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Effects of climate change on boreal lake ecosystems: Productivity and community responses

The ECCO-project ended by summer 2016. The project has provided fundamentally new insights into the impacts of climate change on freshwaters as well as on processes linking impacts on terrestrial to aquatic (freshwater and coastal) ecosystems. The core issue has been to understand the determinant...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Winter disturbance and nitrogen deposition: Unraveling the mechanisms behind ecosystem response to combined effects of climate and pollution

High northern latitudes are increasingly exposed to the combination of extreme winter climate and nitrogen pollution. Changing winter climate is manifesting through increasing frequency of winter warming events, causing partial or full snow thaw over large areas. In addition, high northern latitu...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Adaptive capacity to climate change -personal visiting researcher grant

The personal visiting researcher grant is planned to facilitate and undertake critical tasks for the accomplishment of Critical Aspects of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in the Northern Regions (working title CAVIAR-II) funded by NORKLIMA (project nu mber ES-483216). CAVIAR-II is an on-going...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Indian monsoon precipitation, low-pressure systems and their sensitivity to climate change.

The project is related to the precipitation associated with monsoon low pressure systems over India, and their sensitivity to an increase in atmospheric moisture. Task 1 - current work: A major part of the precipitation over central India during the mon soon season comes from the monsoon low-pr...

Awarded: NOK 77,999

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Ecological Resilience of the Barents Sea

In the last decades, the Barents Sea ecosystem has experienced rapid climate warming in combination with other environmental stressors like harvesting and pollution. The magnitude of the ecological impact of these stressors depends on the ecosystem vulner ability of the Barents Sea. Ecosystem vul...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Effects of environmental conditions experienced by parents, embryos and juveniles on later life history stages in Atlantic salmon

Temperature and food affect growth and age at maturity in poikilothermic animals. We demonstrated how increased temperature and fat content in food reduced age at maturity in Atlantic salmon. Food is like fuel for an engine and temperature is the accelerator of the engine. Temperature during em...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Increasing the collaborative effort between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Institute of Marine Research

Climate change is expected to have strong consequences for the physical environment of the North Atlantic Ocean. Many of the expected physical changes affect the biological productivity of the ocean with consequences for higher trophic levels like those that make up commercial fisheries. The sc...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

From spruce to beech forests - fundamental ecosystem transformation driven by climate change

Beech has a wide distribution in Europe, but reaches its northern limit in South-East Norway. With future climate change, it is expected that the beech will expand northwards, probably at the cost of spruce. Beech thus have the potential to get a far greater distribution than today. At the same t...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Prosjektetablering OpenNESS: "Operationalisation of Natural Capital and EcoSystem Services: From Concepts to Real-world Applications"

The OpenNESS (Operationalisation of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services) project, launched in 2013, explores these principles locally and aims to translate them into practical frameworks for everyday use. In the projects Oslo case study - OSLOpenNESS - the projects economists are collaborat...

Awarded: NOK 0.85 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

APPLICATION FOR RESEARCH STAY IN CANADA FOR VIRVE RAVOLAINEN

One of the most dramatic, on-going changes in the circumpolar terrestrial arctic is expansion of shrubs in tundra. How and why state of shrub tundra changes is not understood, warranting an increased research and monitoring effort. Collaboration at a scal e that matches the circumpolar extent of ...

Awarded: NOK 0.13 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Research stay at National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

The overseas research grant will enable Helene Frigstad to spend 4 months (from November 2012 to March 2013) at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. The host will be Dr. Stephanie Henson and the research group on Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosys tems. We will combine in-situ measurement...

Awarded: NOK 63,999

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Etablering av EuTRACE-prosjektet

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Etablering av ToPDAd-prosjektet

ToPDAd aimed at integrating results from different models that address impacts of climate change in order to improve the knowledge basis for development of adaptation strategies. The project focused primarily on the transport sector, the energy sector and tourism, and considered impacts of climat...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

PES CITI-SENSE: Development of citizens observatories for improved quality of life in cities.

Citizens' Observatories for Environment. First Experiences from Oslo and Europe Air quality and climate change are subject to increased concern to the public. Comprehensive public information is available from the authorities, coming from quality assured public monitoring systems, but there s...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Akershus

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Stimuleringsmidler til EU-prosjektet ENTRACTE

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Distribution and description of volcanic eruptive products

Volcanic ash and sulphur dioxide may impact climate. Reliable methods for monitoring atmospheric volcanic ash and sulphur dioxide amounts are therefore needed. Within this project the aim is to improve volcanic ash and sulphur dioxide detection by infrared satellite measurements, and to develop m...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Workshop on GHG mitigation in Norwegian agriculture

This workshop is part of a research project financed by the Research Council of Norway entitled "Strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Norwegian agriculture". Some of the researchers involved are David Blandford (Penn State University, USA), Iv ar Gaasland (SNF, Norway) and Erling Vård...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Bjerknes Centre 10-Year Anniversary Conference: Climate Change in High Latitudes

Bjerknessenteret for klimaforskning feirer i år sitt 10-årsjubileum som et Senter for Fremragende Forskning?. Dette skal markeres med en internasjonal forskningskonferanse i Bergen 3-6. September 2012. Til konferansen er det ventet minst 300 nasjonale og internasjonale deltakere. På konferansen...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CLIVUS - Climate Change Vulnerability of Summer Ski Centres in Norway

The tempo-spatial shrinkage of snow cover along the past decades has shortened the ski tourism season at many locations, while most mountain glaciers, which are the true natural resources for summer skiing tourism in Norway and worldwide, have also got sm aller. The research on climate change and...

Awarded: NOK 30,999

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

International Conference on Industry Applications and Adaptation to Regional Climate Change

Regional climate scenarios for the future are often used as input to various kinds of impact and adaptation studies. Knowing the end-user needs is imperative for the successful development of adaptation strategies in business and industry. Interaction bet ween researchers and industry delegates w...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

The response of the hydrological system in India to climate change

The INDICE project investigated the effect of climate change on the contribution of the cryosphere - glaciers and snow - to rivers in the western Himalaya region of India. The subsequent effect that these changes are having on water resource availability was also studied. By using different model...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Climate Change and its Impacts on Selected Indian Hydrological Systems using Earth System and High-Resolution Modeling

Due to its diversified socio-economic and climatic regions, India is prominently vulnerable to the ensuing climate changes and related impacts. An increase in temperature and changes in the overall precipitation patterns have a profound impact on the water availability. The advent of climate chan...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Too much, too less, too bad? - Adapting to climate change impacts on water quantity and quality in the drylands of Maharashtra, India

The state of Maharashtra is with around 112 million people the second most populous state in India. Over half of its population lives in rural areas, facing problems related to water scarcity and pollution. More than 30% of the state falls under the rain shadow area. The drought prone areas are a...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Climate Induced Mobilization of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Rivers in India (INDNOPOP)

The overall goal of the project was to assess the climatic controls on the environmental exposure of diffuse chemical micropollutants in the hydrological system of the Ganges river basin. The Ganges catchment is one of the largest on earth, hosting about 7% of the world's population. Despite the ...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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