107 projects

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KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Machine Ocean – Combining Machine Learning and Earth Observations to Improve Simulations of Turbulent Behavior in the Earth System

Reliable weather and ocean forecasts are fundamental to society, and researchers are constantly working to improve forecast models. The atmosphere and oceans are parts of the complex system we call the Earth System. Globally, this system is relatively simple: solar energy is absorbed on Earth, an...

Awarded: NOK 11.5 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

Ecosystem structuring by pulses of internal wave breaking

Vertical mixing in the ocean is an essential mechanism controlling how marine ecosystems work. All marine life builds on primary production that mostly occurs in the upper ocean, where sunlight is available for growth of phytoplankton. Besides sunlight, primary production also requires nutrients ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Accounting for forecast uncertainties in communicating sea ice and weather information in the Arctic

There is a growing demand for accurate Arctic environmental predictions which puts great expectations on our current global and regional forecasting systems. However, the forecast accuracy is limited by the chaotic nature of the atmosphere and ocean and by the imperfection of our model systems. A...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORSKNINGSDATA-FORSKNINGSDATA

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

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

NFR PES MET NORWAY 2020

Meteorologisk institutt har planer om å være med i 18 søknader i 2020. Fordelingen er: 1 stk som koordinator 9 stk som arbeidspakkeledere for minimum 1 wp i hver søknad. Kan være opptil 3 wp i en søknad 8 stk om vanlig deltaker

Awarded: NOK 0.71 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2021

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

TV-meteorologen som klimaformidler

Climate communication and the TV meteorologist as climate communicators The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway) wants to make it easier for people to understand climate change and how it relates to local weather. Our meteorologists on TV and radio are skilled science communicators ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2021

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Key Earth System processes to understand Arctic Climate Warming and Northern Latitude Hydrological Cycle Changes

The KeyCLIM project has created a wealth of new knowledge on the importance of coupled processes for the understanding of climate evolution, with some emphasis on a key region of interest, the Arctic and northern high latitudes. KeyCLIM has resulted already in several important publications compr...

Awarded: NOK 30.0 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

EU-STRA-EU - Strålevern

CONFIDENCE MET 2019: COping with uNcertainties For Improved modelling and DEcision making in Nuclear emergenCiEs

We have studied the quantification of the uncertainties in atmospheric transport of radiological data. This is of large importance in an early phase of the decision making process shortly after an accidental release. Calculations are carried out with the preparedness model SNAP at MET. Assessme...

Awarded: NOK 0.76 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

NFR PES MET NORWAY 2019

Meteorologisk institutt har planer om å være med i 18 søknader i 2019. Fordelingen er: 1 stk som koordinator 9 stk som arbeidspakkeledere for minimum 1 wp i hver søknad. Kan være opptil 3 wp i en søknad 8 stk om vanlig deltaker Meteorologisk institutt er i en særstilling i Europa med yr og dets...

Awarded: NOK 0.69 mill.

Project Period: 2019-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTPLUSS-IKT og digital innovasjon

GPU Ocean workshop 2018

Åpen workshop i prosjektet GPU Ocean, med prosjektdeltagere, inviterte gjester og deltagere påmeldt via prosjektets nettsider. Temaene er fra dataassimilering og modellensembler, med applikasjoner innen operasjonell oseanografi. Workshopen holdes 29.-30. august 2018 på Hotell Refsnes Gods, ca. en...

Awarded: NOK 17,999

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

MARTINI - Understanding and predicting water quality for ecosystem-based management of Norwegian fjords, coastal waters and seas

The primary focus of MARTINI was the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The WFD was implemented into Norwegian law in 2007, referred to as Vannforskriften, and it aims to improve and protect the chemical and biological status of all Norwegian water bodies using ecosystem-based management. The envir...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Precipitation measurements and snow surveys in the Pyramiden and Barentsburg areas, RiS ID 10946

The Arctic freshwater budget is driven primarily by precipitation. Accurate evaluation of precipitation is crucial for a variety of reasons, such as verification of numerical weather forecast, hydrological and climate models. Spring snow surveys and further data analysis could make possible to ob...

Awarded: NOK 11,349

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

NFR PES MET NORWAY 2018

Meteorologisk institutt har planer om å være med i 18 søknader i 2018. Fordelingen er: 1 stk som koordinator 9 stk som arbeidspakkeledere for minimum 1 wp i hver søknad. Kan være opptil 3 wp i en søknad 8 stk om vanlig deltaker Meteorologisk institutt er i en særstilling i Europa med yr og dets...

Awarded: NOK 0.70 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Advanced models and weather prediction in the Arctic: Enhanced capacity from observations and polar process representations (ALERTNESS)

Improved weather prediction in the Arctic Climate change leads to increased activity in the Arctic, but the high-impact weather (HIW) common in these areas is hazardous to marine operations and industrial development. The ambition of Alertness is to develop world-leading capacity for the delivery...

Awarded: NOK 23.0 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

EU-STRA-EU - Strålevern

CONFIDENCE: COping with uNcertainties For Improved modelling and DEcision making in Nuclear emergenCiEs - MET

In serious cases of nuclear emergency the handling of the situation very often has to take into account large uncertainties. In particular when it comes to forecasts of the spread of nuclear pollution in the environment. This project deals with the handling of these uncertainty in the atmospheri...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Personal overseas fellowship to support Ph.D project regarding present and future ice loads on infrastructure in Norway

The personal overseas research grant will be spent on a three month study visit to NCAR, for Ph.D. student Bjørg Jenny Kokkvoll Engdahl. The work will contribute to the Ph.D. project: Improved predictions and future changes of atmospheric icing in Norway, which is a part of the larger project Win...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Enhancing the Salience of climate services for marine mobility Sectors in European Arctic Seas

The rapid warming in the Arctic has profound socio-economic consequences. Current and expected climatic changes (declines in sea ice cover) in the Arctic are propelling growth in marine mobile activities, such as shipping, tourism and fisheries. Ship-based sectors and actors are demanding more a...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2021

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØFORSK-Miljøforskning for en grønn samfunnsomstilling

High Resolution Air Quality Information for Policy

Limited access to reliable scientific information on concentrations of air pollutants and population exposure is an impediment to robust assessments of risks related to air pollution, and for the planning and adoption of effective solutions. The AirQuip project has developed a new computational m...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

NFR PES MET NORWAY

Meteorologisk institutt har planer om å være med i 18 søknader i 2017. Fordelingen er: 1 stk som koordinator 10 stk som arbeidspakkeledere for minimum 1 wp i hver søknad. Kan være opptil 3 wp i en søknad 7 stk om vanlig deltaker De 6 første er som følger: 1) Jørn Kristiansen, LIKE ? ?LIdar Knowl...

Awarded: NOK 0.69 mill.

Project Period: 2017-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Developing and advancing Seasonal Predictability of Arctic Sea ice

The overall goal of SPARSE is to examine whether more accurate and reliable sea ice information will improve the predictability of Arctic sea ice on seasonal time scales. We use three different methods to explore this question: 1) by using the regional coupled ice-ocean model (ROMS-CICE) forced b...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2021

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Changed weather related risks by reducing global warming by half a degree: Supporting HAPPI by harvesting from competence and tools in EVA.

UN?s Climate Convention (UNFCCC) agreed in November 2015 to try to limit the global warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, even if there were little scientific knowledge about the differences in climate and its consequences between 1.5 og 2 degrees global warming, or the feasibilit...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Post-processing Climate Projection Output for Key Users in Norway

For long-term planning, possible future climate changes, as well as their consequences, should be considered, whenever relevant for decision-making. The relevance of climate information, however, varies from sector to sector. In PostClim, the Norwegian Centre for Climate Services (NCCS) and the N...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IKTPLUSS-IKT og digital innovasjon

GPU Ocean - heterogeneous computing of drift in the ocean

It is important to predict the drift trajectories of oil spills, ice bergs, and other floating objects to protect the marine environment and for safe offshore operations. Modern numerical circulation models are sophisticated, and have good representations of the physical processes that drive the ...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2020

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

NFR PES MET NORWAY

1)Malte Müller, WP 1 stk, FMI (FI),SC5-01-2016-2017, 2)Bruce Hacket, WP 1 stk, Univ. Bremen (DE),H2020-EO-2016-3," Services for Earth Observation and Forecast of Sea Ice Dynamics" 3)Harald Schyberg, WP 3 stk, NERSC (UK), H2020-BG-2016-2017-09, "An integrated Arctic observation system" 4)Trond Ive...

Awarded: NOK 0.73 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FORINFRA-Nasjonal sats.på forskningsinfrastrukt.

Norwegian Scientific Data Network

The Norwegian Scientific Data Network (NorDataNet) is a virtual data management system where existing mandated geoscientific data repositories are connected through standardised discovery metadata which are exchanged through machine interfaces. The ambition is to simplify the process of finding,...

Awarded: NOK 20.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ISPNATTEK-ISP - naturvit. og teknologi

GeoAccessNO

GeoAccessNO is a pilot project that has been analysisng and evaluating national capabilities of preserving the scientific legacy within geoscience. The project has looked at both physical and digital data as well as linkages of data and software through work flow management. The project has h...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ISPNATTEK-ISP - naturvit. og teknologi

Workshop series on Operational oceanography for Norwegian Coastal Waters

Coastal oceanographic forecasts presently provide predictions of storm surge and waves. Moreover, such forecasts are used for on-demand prediction of oil drift, and search and rescue operations. These forecasts can conceivably be improved by better use of existing observations. Furthermore, a ...

Awarded: NOK 0.19 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

NFR PES MET NORWAY

1)Øyvind Breivik, C, MET, H2020-DRS-2014-2015, DRS-11-2015, "Disaster-resilience: safeguarding and securing society, including adapting to climate change" 2)Nick Hughes, C, MET, EO-2-2015, "Stimulating wider research use of Copernicus Sentinel Data" 3)Nick Hughes, W (1), Uni. Cambridge or Uni.Anc...

Awarded: NOK 0.65 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

STIM-EU-Strat.Instituttsats.EU-prosj

STIM-EU Meteorologisk institutt

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Awarded: NOK 29.2 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Wind, Ice and Snow Load Impacts on Infrastructure and the Natural Environment.

Atmospheric icing on power lines has at several occasions caused damage to the power grid, such as broken conductors and collapsed transmission towers. The influence of climate change on atmospheric icing has been addressed in the research project Wind Ice and Snow Load Impacts on Infrastructure ...

Awarded: NOK 6.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

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