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Freshwater export in an era of Arctic Ocean freshening and sea ice decline

The FreshArc project investigated how the export of freshwater and sea ice from the Arctic Ocean to lower latitudes is influenced by ongoing Arctic ocean and climate change. Since the 1990s, the amount of freshwater in the Arctic Ocean has increased substantially while the sea ice has been decrea...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Ocean-ice shelf Interaction and channelized Melting in Dronning Maud Land

The Antarctic ice sheet and the floating ice shelves fringing the Antarctic continent are losing mass at an accelerating rate, causing the global mean sea level to rise. This is bad news in a time when the majority of the world's population lives along the coast. The Antarctic ice shelves thin ma...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Freshwater outflow from a fast changing Arctic

Collaboration is sought between Laura de Steur at the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) and Mike Steele at the Polar Science Center (PSC) of the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. De Steur's research at NPI involves analysis of the Arctic water masses, with ...

Awarded: NOK 41,000

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa