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ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Combined remote and in situ study of sea ice thickness and motion in the Fram Strait

The CORESAT project: "Combined remote and in situ study of sea ice thickness and motion in the Fram Strait" improved our understanding of the sea ice thickness and sea ice drift distribution in the Fram Strait region and around Svalbard, which have a high impact on the local Arctic and global cli...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Mare incognitum - ecological processes during the polar night

The primary objective of this project is to achieve a basic understanding of Arctic biodiversity and food web structure during the Arctic polar night, and how reproduction, growth, trophic interactions, and life-history traits during this nearly unstudied time contribute to functioning of Arctic...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Bjerknes Compensation Mechanism: Historical perspective, geographical pattern, and Arctic multi-decadal predictability

Long runs (hundreds of years) of the global climate models and high-resolution climate proxy data sets provide an opportunity to study multi-decadal natural variability of the coupled atmospheric and oceanic circulation. The Nordic seas and the Arctic are regions were such a natural variability ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskn

Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE)

Store mengder av klimagassen metan er lagret under havbunnen i Arktis som gasshydrat, en fast is-lignende blanding av metan og vann som er stabil under høye trykk og lave temperaturer. Metan er en kraftig drivhusgass med potensiale til å styre hvor raskt oppvarmingen av jorda skjer. CAGE har int...

Awarded: NOK 140.1 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2023

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

ACOBAR-II: Analysis and publication of results from the Fram Strait tomographic experiment.

As part of the EU projects DAMOLCES (2005-2010) and ACOBAR (2008-2013) two major acoustic experiments were carried out in the Fram Strait. The aim was to provide accurate measurements of acoustic travel times over 100-300 kilometer sections for inversion and assimilation into ice-ocean models. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.75 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Ocean dynamics and mixing processes at high latitudes

This application (PROCESSES) seeks support for a 8 month research stay abroad at Scripps Institute of Oceanography for Ilker Fer (I, hereafter). In PROCESSES, I shall utilize state-of-the-art observations and establish a strong international cooperation, with an aim to improve our understanding ...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Remote Sensing of Ocean Circulation and Environmental Mass Changes

Prosjektet Remote Sensing of Ocean Circulation and Environmental Mass Changes (REOCIRC) har gjennom 5 år (2013-2018) hentet inn viktige informasjon fra havet på styrken og variasjonen av strømmen av varmt Atlanterhavsvann til Arktisk. Dette er gjort ved å måle havstrømmer, temperatur og saltinnho...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Svalbard

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Circumpolar Deep Water upwelling and West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability

Prosjektet «Circumpolar Deep Water Upwelling and West Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability» (CIRCUMWAIS) ble gjennomført ved Institutt for geologi, Universitetet i Tromsø ? Norges arktiske universitet. Deltakerne fra UiT var prof. Tine Lander Rasmussen (prosjektleder), Dr. Patrycja Ewa Jernas og Dr. Mat...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Genome-based analysis of biogenic/phytoplankton influence on the global sulphur cycle.

Svovel-aerosoler generert fra mikroorganismer kan fungere som kondensasjonskjerner for vanndamp og bidra til skydannelse over hav. Dette prosjektet har hatt som mål å undersøke hvordan to økologisk viktige svovelforbindelser, dimetylsufoniopropionat (DMSP) og dimetylsulfid (DMS), blir produsert a...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Toppfinansiering av Marie Curie-stipendiatstilling til Sarah Berben ved ITN-prosjekt CASE 2381111

The full title of CASE is: The Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic Environment: A Research and Training Programme on Marine Biotic Indicators of Recent Climate Changes in the High Latitudes of the North Atlantic. CASE started April 1st, 2010 for a period of 4 years. The main aim of the CASE Initial ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

IS-TOPP-Toppfinans. av M.Curie-stipend

Toppfinansiering av Marie Curie-stipendiatstilling til Diane Groot ved ITN-prosjekt CASE 2381111

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

An Integrated Earth System Approach to Explore Natural Variability and Climate Sensitivity

EARTHCLIM is a nationally coordinated climate research project, gathering Universities and research institutes from Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø. Central to EARTHCLIM is to improve, implement and verify climate processes in the Norwegian community Earth System Model (ESM) NorESM that are of particula...

Awarded: NOK 25.3 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Developing methods for advanced modeling of sea ice physical properties

Fordelingen av sjøis på jorden er en nøkkelkomponent i klimasystemet. Den påvirker varme- og energiutvekslingen mellom oseanet og atmosfæren, strålingsbalanset, opprinnelsen av havsirkulasjoner og med partikkeltransporten også næringskjeden. Hermed legger de fysio-kjemiske vekselvirkningene i de...

Awarded: NOK 73,796

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Faroe Bank Channel Overflow: Dynamics and Mixing

En stor del av de dype, kalde vannmassene i de nordiske hav strømmer ut gjennom Færøybank-kanalen og inn i Nord-Atlanteren som en stor undersjøisk flod. Utstrømningen er veldig energirik og turbulent og den fører med seg cirka 2 millioner kubikkmeter per sekund. Vannmassenes egenskaper, slik som ...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

North Atlantic Ocean-Climate Variability in a Warmer World

For å øke forståelsen om fremtidige endringer i havet hadde NOCWARM prosjektet som mål å etablere variabiliteten i havsirkulasjon og klima i perioder varmere enn i dag. I NOCWARM er det publisert tre arbeider som dekker den nåværende mellomistid (Thornall y et al., 2013) og den siste mellomistid ...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Vestland

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Investigation of physical environment in West Spitsbergen waters

The project is focusing on comprehensive studies of physical environment in West Spitsbergen waters, which is of vital importance for understanding local marine ecosystem structure and functioning. Firstly, estimation of inter-annual variability of hydrog raphic/thermohaline characteristics in we...

Awarded: NOK 81,999

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FORINFRA-Nasj.sats. forskn.infrastrukt

Norwegian Atlantic Current Observatory

We propose to establish an infrastructure consisting primarily of state-of-the-art ocean glider instruments which initially provide real time temperature and salinity profiles as well as drift velocity in the area off the mid-Norwegian shelf towards the P olar Front. These observations will be co...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2017

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Detailed studies of the Bjerknes compensation mechanism

The proposal is aimed on strengthening of the established cooperation within the frameworks of the BILAT-USA programme and the ongoing NFR projects PAACSIZ and POCAHONTAS. The existing cooperation is mostly confined to the lower atmospheric processes, gen eral circulation and the Arctic climate. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

Annual and semi-annual sea level variations in the Nordic seas

The project focuses on the annual and semi-annual sea level variations in the Nordic Seas. The analysis is based on information about the variability of sea level from tide-gauges and satellite altimetry data in the Norwegian, Greenland and Barents Seas. For separation and analysis of annual and...

Awarded: NOK 21,999

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

On the origin of the Denmark Strait Overflow Water

The North Atlantic Deep Western Boundary Current constitutes the lower limb of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC), and, as such, is a crucial component of the Earth's climate system. Warm subtropical-origin waters flow northward across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge where they a...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2012

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Storfjorden Polynya Air Sea Ice Exchange Experiment

The Storfjorden Polynya Air Sea Ice Exchange Experiment (SPASIE²) will expand research capabilities in Norway in air-sea-ice interaction through a dedicated field campaign. Through this coordinated study researchers and graduate students will be exchange d between Norway and the US. The project ...

Awarded: NOK 0.82 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Influx of Atlantic Water from the Nordic Seas to the Arctic Ocean during the late glacial and the Holocene.

Under siste istid var Barentshavet dekket av Svalbard-Barentshavet isskapene. Etter isen trakk seg tilbake ble Barentshavet etter hvert en av hoved transportveiene for Atlantisk vann på vei mot Polhavet. I dag er syd-vestlige Barentshavet dominert av varm t og salt Atlantisk vann mens nordlige Ba...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Russian-Norwegian field work cooperation on marine properties in Svalbard waters

Russian-Norwegian collaboration already established in a Fram Arctic Laboratory funded PhD project, will be expanded by developing joint field work in Svalbard fjords and adjacent shelf waters. The field work will focus on seawater properties (temperature , salinity, particulate matter, optics, t...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Satellite Earth Observation of the Marine Environment in the Svalbard region

Earth Observation (EO) data from polar orbiting satellites play an increasingly important role in environmental and climate sciences and for operational use. EO data in the Arctic is particular useful because the coverage from polar orbiting satellites is better at high latitudes and the fact th...

Awarded: NOK 0.71 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Arctic Ocean Sea-ice and Ocean Circulation Changes Using Satellite Methods - SATICE

Over intra- and inter-annual time scales, the mean dynamic topography (MDT) variability in the Arctic Ocean largely results from changes in large-scale ocean circulation patterns both within the Arctic as well as from adjacent seas such as the North Atlan tic and the Nordic Seas [Forsberg et al.,...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2014

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Physical-mechanical properties of sea ice and influence of ice cover on hydrology of Svalbard fjords

The project is related to the development of network cooperation between Norwegian and Russian institutes in the field of sea ice research. The project contributes to the development of research infrastructure for the study of sea ice properties in the fi eld and laboratory conditions. We plan to...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

INTERNAL HYDRAULIC PROCESSES IN AN ARCTIC FJORD

There is growing evidence that a significant fraction of the diapycnal mixing in the oceans is caused by internal hydraulic processes (e.g., internal wave breaking, internal hydraulic jumps etc.). Fjords are convenient as ocean process laboratories since they exhibit many of the physical phenome...

Awarded: NOK 0.54 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

ARCtic Ocean Mixing: Influence of changing ice cover on internal waves and mixing

The proposal is motivated by recent findings showing i) the sensitivity of Arctic Ocean circulation to background deep-ocean diapycnal mixing and ii) enhancement of near-inertial internal wave activity and induced mixing in the absence of sea ice. Mixi ng in the stratified ocean is related to ...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

The evolution of young sea ice

Isdekket i Arktis blir for tiden mindre og mindre og betydelig større områder enn før blir isfrie om sommeren. Dette er en trend som vil fortsette i et varmere klima. En gradvis overgang mot et isfritt Arktis om sommeren vil ha store konsekvenser for økol ogi og klima, men også ha store innvirkni...

Awarded: NOK 62,205

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Vestland

NAERINGSPH-Nærings-phd

The wind field in the marine boundary layer - with applications to offshore wind power.

Formålet med prosjektet er å få en bedre forståelse av turbulensen i den nederste delen av atmosfæren over havet (det marine grenselaget), med tanke på bedre vindprognoser og energiestimater for offshore vindmølleparker. En betydelig del av den kjente usi kkerheten i dagens værvarslingsmodeller k...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland

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