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Norwegian partnership in the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

In 1984, the Research Councils of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden (Iceland joined later) formed the Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association (NOTSA) with the purpose of building a medium-size optical and near infrared telescope for the astronomical communities in the respective countri...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Norwegian Participation in Euclid: Early Post-Launch Phase

Cosmology, the study of the Universe as a whole, has come a long way in the last twenty years, mainly because of observatories that have studied the cosmic microwave background and galaxy surveys that have mapped the distribution of galaxies in the Universe. This has given us a model, called the ...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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SNOWDEPTH - Global snow depths from spaceborne remote sensing for permafrost, high-elevation precipitation, and climate reanalyses

SNOWDEPTH combines laser measurements from the ICESat-2 satellite with other satellite data, maps, climate reanalyses, elevation data, and statistical methods to map the amount of snow on the ground. Snow depth maps currently only exist for a few areas in the world, as there is no efficient metho...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Impact of small-scale reconnection events on the solar atmosphere

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in which the magnetic topology is rearranged and magnetic energy is converted into other forms of energy such as heat and particle acceleration. Our closest star, the Sun, provides unique opportunity to advance our understanding of the proce...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Characterization and Assessment of Structuring Connected to Auroral Dynamics using EISCAT_3D

Turbulent motion generally exhibits highly “irregular” structures and exists in all types of fluids around us. It can for example be observed within rivers, in the neutral atmosphere, and in the ionosphere, the ionized part of our atmosphere. In the ionosphere in particular, irregular structures...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Ionospheric Impact Response Analysis by Regional Information Integration

The space around Earth is strongly influenced by the solar wind, a stream of charged particles coming from the Sun. Although Earth’s magnetic field protects our planet from the solar wind, some of its energy is transferred to the magnetosphere, where it causes, among other things, the aurora. The...

Awarded: NOK 11.1 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Vestland

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Gravitational Wave Signals From Early Universe Phase Transitions

In the very early Universe, a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, a number of phase transitions may have taken place. Just as for the boiling of water (which is also a phase transition) bubbles form. These grow and collide which each other, and for the energies present in the early Universe,...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Rogaland

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Unravelling the Drivers of Energetic Electron Precipitation - Revealing the Imprint of Space on Earth (DEEP - RISE)

The sun is constantly emitting a wind of charged particles. The magnetic field in the solar wind will interact with the Earth’s magnetic field, driving different electromagnetic waves which increases the energy of the electrons and protons trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field. A fraction of thes...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Vestland

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Sea Ice Retrievals and data Assimilation in NOrway

In the High Arctic, the sea-ice cover changes and moves all the time because of the changes in temperature and wind. MET uses images from many satellites to tell where the sea ice is every day. We also use computer models to forecast where it will be in the next couple of days (like the weather f...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Norwegian Participation in Euclid: Implementation phase, part 3

Cosmology, the study of the Universe as a whole, has come a long way in the last twenty years, mainly because of observatories, like the satellite Planck, which have studied the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation coming from the Big Bang, and galaxy surveys, like 2dF, SDSS and DES, which have ...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Sea Ice Deformation and Snow for an Arctic in Transition

SIDRiFT set the stage for a better understanding of the role of sea ice deformation and snow on ice in the changing Arctic climate. Arctic sea ice became thinner and more vulnerable to the impacts of winds and ocean currents. Sea ice is drifting faster and is pilled up in ridges or moved apart ...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Which types of particle precipitation matter in the middle atmosphere?

The project sought to determine which types of particle precipitation are significant in changing the atmospheric chemistry. Our approach has been based on long time series of ground-based observations as well as atmosphere and climate modelling. High-energy protons and electrons precipitating i...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Svalbard

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Bidrag til norsk medlemskap i Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT)

In 2019 and 2020, the Nordic Optical Telescope has been used diligently by Norwegian researchers, all of whom have participated in major international collaborations. One group, which includes Håkon Dahle (ITA, UiO), has used the gravitational lensing effect to study galaxies at high redshifts. O...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Simulating the Circumgalactic Medium and the Cycle of Baryons In and Out of Galaxies Throughout Cosmic History

How galaxies form and evolve throughout cosmic history is a central question of modern cosmology. Galaxies are not isolated objects in the Universe, but fundamentally connected within a “cosmic web”. This "web" is scaffolded by gravitational collapse of dark matter into sheets and filamentary str...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Quantification of Global Ammonia Sources constrained by a Bayesian Inversion Technique

Nitrogen is a basic component of life and it is present both in proteins and DNA. Its basic chemical form in nature is the non-reactive gaseous N2. However, in the 20th Century humans converted N2 into more reactive forms. Today, NH3 (ammonia) sustains life and almost 40% of the global population...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Akershus

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Ionospheric exploration with NorSat-1

In July 2017 the first Norwegian scientific satellite, NorSat-1, was launched into a 600 km altitude orbit; NorSat-1 now crosses the northern polar region every 90 minutes. On board NorSat-1 is the multi-needle Langmuir probe, an instrument developed at the University of Oslo that is capable of m...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Full Range Energetic Particle Precipitation Impacting the Middle Atmosphere (FREPPIMA)

Energetic electrons and protons, trapped in the Earth?s magnetic field, can collide with gases in the upper atmosphere (> 50 km). The collisions initiate a number of chemical reactions leading to the production of NOx and HOx gasses, which in turn can reduce the ozone concentration. Ozone is impo...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Satellite Aerosol Amount and Classification Retrieval Over Bright Surfaces at High Latitude: A Novel Perspective - SALVI

The temperature in the Arctic has increased almost twice the global average over the past 100 years. The climate effects of aerosol have large uncertainties at high latitudes. In spring and winter the Arctic can be affected by recurring haze due to long range transport of pollution (residential c...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Akershus

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Cosmic dust in the solar-terrestrial physics: exploring the inner heliosphere

Cosmic dust particles are one of the major constituents of the interplanetary medium of our heliosphere: the region around the Sun that is filled with the solar wind and shielded from the majority of particles outside in the interstellar medium. The ESA mission Solar Orbiter explores the inner he...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Long ago and far away: Viewing galaxy formation and evolution through the best cosmic magnifying glasses.

The finite speed of light enables us to look back in time as we peer out in the universe. This enables us to study how galaxies were formed and how they evolved throughout the history of the universe. However, it is difficult to study distant galaxies in detail: Each galaxy only covers a few pixe...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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FrostInSAR: Upscaling the investigation of periglacial landforms in the Norwegian Arctic using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry

In polar and mountainous regions, the cold climate leads to temperature fluctuations around 0 °C. The ground freezes and thaws, which causes heave and subsidence of the ground surface due to the transition between water and ice. In inclined terrain, rocks and sediments tend to move downslope unde...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Next-generation CMB satellites: Norwegian participation in Core and LiteBIRD

At 10.51 on September 14th 2015 the US-funded LIGO experiment made the world's first direct observation of gravitational waves produced by two colliding black holes, almost exactly 100 years after the effect was predicted by Albert Einstein. Only two years later, this work was awarded the Nob...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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Upper ocean circulation from the Sentinel and Earth Explorer satellites - sensor synergy for advanced knowledge and understanding

Capitalising on new high-resolution satellite Earth observation datasets the project has focused on the study the upper ocean circulation in the Nordic Seas. This is associated with pole-ward transport of warm Atlantic Water to the high latitude and Arctic Ocean and is a key component in maintai...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Vestland

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Radar altimetry for ice mass balance - impact of melting and refreezing in the snowpack

Climate change has caused increased mass loss from glaciers, ice sheets and sea ice over the last few decades, and that is affecting both sea level and ocean circulation. Satellite radar altimetry is one of few techniques that is capable of monitoring these changes through repeated ranging of Ear...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Solar Atmospheric Modelling, adjunct professor position

Solar magnetism lies at the root of most solar and heliospheric physics. The intricate structure of the solar field, the activity cycle and the influence of the field on the heliosphere represent major quests of (astro) physics which bear directly on the human environment. The sun's magnetic fiel...

Awarded: NOK 1.00 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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The mesospheric sodium layer as a remotely, optically pumped magnetometer for investigation of Birkeland currents

In this project, we plan to study the aurora by making the first long-term in situ measurements of the geomagnetic field in the actual auroral region. Geomagnetic measurements are also made to study Earth's core and crust, as well as to investigate processes related to aurora and their connectio...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

COMAP: Mapping the teenage universe with carbon monoxide

The greatest success story in modern cosmology is the mapping of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Providing a direct image of the infant universe, experiments such as COBE, WMAP and Planck have revolutionized modern cosmology. Most cosmological parameters have be...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Observing and understanding flux emergence using IRIS and SST coordinated data

In 1908 the Sun became the first star on which magnetic fields were detected by Hale). Since then the solar community has developed different methods and instrumentation in order to measure these magnetic fields, and has tried to explain their effect on our nearest star as well as on the heliosph...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

22nd ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and related Research

EASP-avtalen er et samarbeid om retten til bruk av rakettskytefeltene i ESRANGE Kiruna og på Andøya Space Center (ASC). Norge tiltrådte avtalen i sin nåværende form i 1990, men hadde fra 1973 en assosieringsavtale gjennom Sverige. Avtalen sikrer muligheten til å opprettholde grunnleggende infrast...

Awarded: NOK 49,999

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Change detection in heterogeneous remote sensing images

Comparing apples and oranges - and making sense of it Change detection is an important application in earth observation with satellite images. It is traditionally done by comparing images recorded under conditions that should be as similar as possible. The quest posed at the University of Trom...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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