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NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Decadal variability on the North Atlantic Ocean/Nordic Seas

Project DEC-OCEAN aims at clarifying the origin behind decadal and multi-decadal variability in the North Atlantic and its influences on the transports and properties of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas. Regionally induced oceanic variability to the nort h of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge will al...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

NorClim - Climate of Norway and the Arctic in the 21st Century

NorClim responds to the need for identification and understanding of natural climate fluctuations in Norway and the Arctic (our region) by combining analyses of available instrumental data from land and the ocean for the past 50 to 100 years and unique hi gh-resolution time series for the last mi...

Awarded: NOK 59.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Bridge Building NERSC - SIO -WHOI

Acoustic tomography is a cost effective method for obtaining time series of unique, synoptic and horizontally averaged oceanographic depth profiles at a high temporal resolution, which can be tailored and implemented in any ocean area including deep and i ce covered oceans. Today, acoustic tomogr...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian-Russian Collaboration on Fast Ice Growth and Decay in Kongsfjorden and Grønfjorden (Svalbard)

We propose a combined observational and numerical study of atmosphere - sea ice - ocean interactions in Kongsfjorden and Grønfjorden by analyzing the processes driving the growth and decay of fast ice in this area in the seasons 2006/2007 and 2007/2008. A dditionally, we aim at fast ice scenario ...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

POLEWARD: A drifter experiment to quantify the poleward transport, transformation and spreading of oceanic properties

We propose to observe, describe and quantify the oceanic transport poleward and the transformation, spreading and mixing rates of water parcels in the Nordic and Barents Seas by monitoring the motion of the water parcels. In the process we will be quantif ying the mechanisms transforming the warm...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Ocean Mixing in the Arctic: Case study at the North Pole Environmental Observatory

Ocean mixing plays a pivotal role in climate variability and change. Despite its importance, mixing is the most uncertain component of modern ocean general circulation models. Field measurements covering both the small (turbulent) scales and conventionall y measurable larger scales aid to underst...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2008

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Northeast Greenland "Mare Incognitum"

The proposed two-year research project on the North-East Greenland 'Mare Incognitum' (NØ-GRØN) is a targeted observational study of the apparently extraordinary changes observed off north-eastern and eastern Greenland in recentmost summers. The research will contribute to our understanding of th...

Awarded: NOK 0.55 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Bipolar Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation

In BIAC the mechanisms, manifestation and impact of intermediate and bottom water formation originating from the bipolar Atlantic Ocean shelves will be explored. The overall goal is to evaluate the global ventilation through circum Arctic and Antarctic sh elves and consequences for the climate by...

Awarded: NOK 32.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

EVITA-eVitenskap

Understanding Coral Distribution and conditions for growth in Norwegian waters

In recent years it has been documented that deep-water coral reefs of the species Lophelia pertusa are a major benthic habitat in Norwegian waters. However, basic information about the biology and ecology of this species is still unknown. Lophelia live an d thrive under special environmental cond...

Awarded: NOK 7.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Synthetic Aperture Radar for ocean current feature retrievals and surface velocity estimates

Estimating currents from SAR imagery is still research-dominated. Most of the work has been in development of improved forward radar imaging models to predict the SAR signatures of regions with changing oceanic currents. In the latest radar imaging model (RIM) by Kudryavtsev et al., (2005) deta...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Assessment of human impact on the marine CARBon system in arctic regions (A-CARB)

Carbon dioxide is the most important manageable forcing agent of climate change. Large amounts are emitted through fossil fuel burning. Prediction of future climate change and planning of mitigation strategies requires that thorough knowledge of the facto rs that control the distribution of anth...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Vestland

IS-DAAD-Forskerutveksl. Norge-Tyskland

Marzeion, Benjamin daadppp 0708

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Awarded: NOK 46,845

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Svalbard Ice-Ocean Studies (SIOS)

The project consists of three main types of activities: - Execution of field experiments in Svalbard - Joint analysis of data from Svalbard and elsewhere - Exchange of researchers and graduate students There will be two field seasons, winter/spring 2007 and winter/spring 2008. The main experim...

Awarded: NOK 0.73 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Svalbard

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Current measurements north of Svalbard - An extension of the North Pole Environmental Observatory

The project consists of three parallell activities: technical capacity building, joint scientific studies and exchange of personell. The activies are built around the use of expendable current profiling in combination with other technologies to address ke y scientific issues. A capability for oce...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

A Lagrangian study of pathways and mixing of Arctic and Atlantic waters in the Norwegian Sea. Part II: Analysis and Synthesis

Scientists at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) and at the University of Rhode Island (URI) have completed a 4 years long collaborative field project in the Nordic Seas. The circulation of the Atlantic Water (AW) and the Arctic Intermediate Water (AIW) have been studied using acoust...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Ice-ocean-atmosphere research in Svalbard using satellite and field data ? Promotion of Russian and Norwegian Ph.D. cooperation.

The Nansen Fellowship Program hosted by the Nansen Centers in Bergen and St. Petersburg facilitate supervision, stipend and international scientific exchange visits for young Russian Ph.D. students in the field of environmental and climate sciences. Their doctoral dissertations are completed at ...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction

The SUP focuses on fundamental problems of atmosphere-ocean interaction, and provides the opportunity to conduct the following in-depth investigations, covering a 3-4 year time frame: 1. Fundamental studies of atmosphere-ocean flux processes 2. Interannu al variability of surface fluxes and ocea...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Implementation of the Curvi-linear Princeton Ocean Model 2000 for the North Norwegian coast

Oceanic models are fundamental and important tools in studies of oceanographic and ecological processes. Outside the coast of Norway, they have been used for studies of dispersal of planktonic organisms, shrimp larvae and capelin larvae etc. We propose to implement the POM2K for North Norwegian ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku - Tromssa ja Finmarkku

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Integration of developmental and environmental forcing in life history models of planktonic organisms

In a longer perspective the proposed research aims at integrating certain aspects of two major, although separated, domains in current biology: The first domain extends from the molecule to the organisms, while the second extends from organism to populati on biology, biodiversity studies, and eco...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Impact of changing freshwater flows on the thermohaline circulation and European climate analysis and modelling of the last deglaciation

Changes in the amount and location of river and meltwater discharge to the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans could profoundly affect the thermohaline circulation and thus the climate of Europe. Abrupt changes in ocean circulation, and the location of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation, ha...

Awarded: NOK 0.62 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

MARE-Marine ressurser,miljø og forv

Light and life in Norwegian waters: Physics/Biology based approach to satellite monitoring of primary production and algal blooms

The project I am involved in has the title “Light and Life in Norwegian waters: Physics/Biology based approach to satellite monitoring of primary production and algae blooms”. The project focuses on the further development of existing models for analysing satellite images in order to evaluate th...

Awarded: NOK 34,999

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Exchange visit at Institute of Ocean Sciences, Canada and University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA, for PhD student Arild Sundfjord

The NORKLIMA funded project CABANERA is a muliti-disciplinary project investigating the uptake and cycling of Carbon in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) of the Barents Sea. Similar investigations are being made on the opposite side of the Arctic Ocean, throug h the projects SBE, CASES and JWACS. PhD ...

Awarded: NOK 43,999

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Development and Coordination of the IGBP program on Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ II)

LOICZ is one of the eight core projects of IGBP studying the Earth system interactions. The project aims at better understanding of global environmental changes occurring in the coastal zone due to natural changes, such as climate and those due to changes in the global economy/trade and policy. ...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Viken

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Gjesteforeleser James Rennell 5.1.2005

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Awarded: NOK 9,999

Project Period: 2005-2005

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Variations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during rapid climate changes: calibration, modelling and palaeoceanographic ob

Our ability to understand the potential for future abrupt changes in climate is limited by our lack of understanding of the processes that control them. The climate system appears to operate in quasi-stable modes, and may switch from one mode to another w ithin a few decades. Recent evidence sugg...

Awarded: NOK 0.39 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

COMPAS

Based on relocation of the Principal Investigator from the USA to Norway, a group for interdisciplimary studies of climate dynamics will be established. COMPAS will fill the gap in the current understanding, and assess the impact, of the Atlantic Ocean o n the climate of Northern Europe and Nor...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Non-hydrostatic Ocean General Circulation Models

The tendency for human to operate in deeper waters, the increasing awareness of coastal and marine management, and the necessity for accurate parameterisations of unresolved processes in climate models have moved the process studies performed with Ocean General Circulation Models (OGCMs) to high...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Vestland

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

External and internal forced variability of the Atlantic-European climate system over the last millennium - a model approach

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Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Vestland

F-GEO-Naturvitenskap, geofag

Spatial and temporal variability of currents and transport of warm waters towards the Nordic Seas: Analysis and synthesis

A four year program, started in 2000, based on measurements of currents, temperature and salinity across the North Atlantic between the Orkneys (UK) and Cape Farewell (Greenland) spans all warm waters flowing north in what is known as the global thermohal ine circulation (popularly known as the C...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2006

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Use of new in situ observations in operational ocean forecasting

Emerging ocean observing systems - ARGO floats, ferry boxes and long range HF radar - promise to significantly increase the amount of in situ data available in near-real-time. In addition, concentional ship and buoy observations are expected become increa singly available in NRT. The project will...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2007

Location: Oslo

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