155 projects

STIM-OA-Stimuleringstiltak for åpen tilgang

Nansensenterets åpne (AO) publikasjoner i 2014

Nansensenteret publisert 11 artikler i 2014 i journaler son tilfredstiller fri Open Access, hvorav av senteret har dekket publiseringskostnader for 4 publikasjoner.

Awarded: NOK 23,000

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

neXtWIM: Waves in a next-generation sea ice model

With increasing temperatures worldwide, the Arctic is experiencing rapid changes in sea ice conditions. In particular, the sea ice extent has experienced several record lows in the last decade, producing more open water in the Arctic ocean, and consequently more waves. At the same time many indus...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Vestland

UTENRIKS-Internasjonale forhold - utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitikk og norske interesser

Development of sea ice monitoring and forecasting system to support safe operations and navigation in Arctic Seas

The Sentinel-1A and 1B satellites of the Copernicus programme have become the main providers of SAR data both globally and in the Arctic sea ice regions. The SAR data are open and freely available from the ESA data hub as well as the national Sentinel ground segment operated by Norwegian Meteorol...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

High resolution sea-ice motion from Synthetical Aperture Radar using pattern tracking and Doppler shift

Sea ice is one of the most pronounced climate indicators in the Arctic Ocean and data on sea ice properties is therefore important in climate research. This project focused on providing methods for high-resolution sea ice drift retrieval and corresponding data sets using satellite Synthetic Apert...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Ocean Flagship

The main goal of the proposed SSF Ocean Flagship is to increase scientific cooperation between all countries and institutions actively involved in the marine research in the Svalbard area. At present the individual elements of the ocean observing system in Fram Strait and the European Arctic are ...

Awarded: NOK 0.40 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Vestland

STIM-EU-Strat.Instituttsats.EU-prosj

STIM-EU Nersc

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Awarded: NOK 15.8 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2022

Location: Vestland

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

Nansensenteret: PES2020-rammebeviligning for 2015

Nansensenteret (ledergruppe og enkelt forskere) vurderer løpende utlysninger som er eller vil bli åpnet i H2020. Senteret posisjonerer seg aktivt i relevante søker konsortium som enten koordinator eller WP-leder (partner). Annonserte og planlagte H2020 utlysinger for 2015 har blitt vurdert og for...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Vestland

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

NABIC Reserach school 2014: Coastal and ocean processes in the Bay of Bengal in a changing climate and their impacts on society

Nansen-Bangladesh International Centre for Coastal, Ocean and Climate Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh will in cooperation with Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway, Nansen Scientific Society, Bergen, Norway and Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, Dhaka, plan and host the ...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2015

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Does the Arctic sea-ice loss have an impact on the winter weather patterns in Europe? (EuropeWeather)

The rise in near-surface air temperatures in the Arctic has been almost twice as large as the global average in recent decades, known as Arctic Amplification (AA). At the same time, cold, snowy winters have been found over mid-latitude land areas, known as 'warm Arctic - cold continents' pattern....

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Vestland

SANCOOP-South Africa - Norway research co-operation on climate, the environment og clean energy

Seasonal to decadal Changes Affecting Marine Productivity: an Interdisciplinary investigation

The primary aim of the multidisciplinary SCAMPI project was to identify and analyse patterns of seasonal to decadal variability in the southern African marine environments, ecosystems and living resources. The data sources and methods were based on available in-situ measurements and satellite obs...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Vestland

STIM-EU-Strat.Instituttsats.EU-prosj

STIM-EU 2014 NERSC

Det forutsettes at midlene benyttes til å støtte opp om instituttets strategiske utviklingsarbeid, etter de samme retningslinjene som for statlig basisfinansiering av forskningsinstitutter.

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosjektstøtte for matematikk, naturvitenskap og teknologi

Sea Ice Mechanics: from satellites to numerical models

The Arctic region is currently experiencing rapid changes that are mainly driven by global warming. Over the last decade, we have observed a drastic shrinkage of the Arctic sea ice cover in summer accompanied by a spectacular thinning of mean thickness and an increased export of sea ice through t...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Vestland

PES2020-Prosj.etabl.støtte H2020

PES-rammebevilgning for 2014; Nansensenteret

Nansensentert har vært/er involvert i ca. 113 EU finansierte prosjekter, hvorav senteret har koordinert eller koordinerer 45 prosjekter. En rekke FP7 prosjekter er nylig avsluttet og for tiden deltar senteret i 11 FP7 prosjekter, hvorav de koordinerer ett . For Nansensenteret er det en rekke nye...

Awarded: NOK 0.80 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2014

Location: Vestland

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Application for network building on oceanic mesoscale eddies and marine ecosystems

The application is for support to prepare, execute and follow up on a session at the AGU Ocean Sciences. This conference gathers more than 2000 oceanographers wordlwide and is arranged every second year. We will convene a session entitled "Physical-biolo gical interactions in mesoscale eddies: g...

Awarded: NOK 0.17 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2014

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Arctic Ocean under Melting ice

The Fram Strait is the only deep passage for the exchange of water masses between the Atlantic and Polahavet. On the eastern side of the strait, the West Spitsbergen Current transports warm Atlantic waters into the Arctic, on the west side of Framstredet, sea ice and ice water from the Arctic tra...

Awarded: NOK 17.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Vestland

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

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Arctic Observing Summit 2013

The Arctic Observing Summit 2013 (AOS) is the first in a planned series of high-level, biennial international meetings that aims to provide science-based guidance for the design, implementation, coordination and sustained long-term (decades) operation of an international network of arctic enviro...

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

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

NORRUSS-Nordområdene og Russland

CLIMate variability and change in the Eurasian ARCtic in the 21st century

Global warming is enhanced in the Arctic regions and its surface air temperature has increased to nearly the double of the global average over the last 100 years. Sea ice retreat is increasing during the summer and the total ice volume is diminishing. Sta te of-the-art global climate models are n...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Vestland

STIM-EU-Strat.Instituttsats.EU-prosj

STIM-EU 2013 NERSC

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Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2013

Location: Vestland

STIM-EU-Strat.Instituttsats.EU-prosj

STIM-EU - NERSC

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Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

GOCE studies of mean dynamic topography and ocean circulation in the high latitude and Arctic Ocean (GOCE-MDT).

Using the ESA Earth Explorer GOCE derived geoid a new high-resolution window of the mean dynamic topography (MDT) and ocean circulation in the high latitude and Arctic Ocean has been derived. This MDT in combination with in-situ data, satellite altimetry and simulated products from ocean models ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Vestland

RBGRUNMILJ-Resultatbasert grunnbevilgning - Miljøinstitutter

Grunnbevilgning - NERSC

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Awarded: NOK 79.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2022

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

Decadal to multi-decadal variability in the Indian Monsoon Rainfall (IMR) and teleconnection with Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)

In order to understand the observed relation between the Atlantic multi-decadal Oscillation/Variability (AMO/AMV) and multi-decadal variability in the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) rainfall, we have analyzed observational data (Abish et al, 2013, 2015, Joseph et al, 2013) proxy reconstructions (Sve...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Vestland

IS-NORDIC-Nordic Pilot Programme for NSF

Multitemporal Simulations of Arctic Maritime Accessibility

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Awarded: NOK 39,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

SIOS-PP-Svalbard Inte Artic Eart Ob Sy

Etabl.partn.22 - Nansen Senter for miljø og fjernmåling

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Awarded: NOK 0.82 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Investigation of Arctic rivers runoff, spread and role in global carbon cycle using the Earth Explorer - SMOS

CO2 is the major anthropogenic forcing factor for climate change. Marine CO2 sink depends on CO2 concentration which, in turn is strongly dependent upon the input of organic carbon from land with river discharge. Dissolved fraction of organic carbon (DOC) in riverine waters spreads over vast oce...

Awarded: NOK 0.30 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Arctic sea ice variability: a comprehensive study using satellite and in-situ observations - ArcticSIV

Sea ice concentration data from passive microwave satellite data (PMW), obtained from 1978 to present, is the most important data set to document the decrease of the Arctic sea ice area in the recent decades. There are many retrieval algorithms to calculate ice concentration from the satellite da...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2014

Location: Vestland

POLARPROG-Polarforskningsprogram

Impact of Blue Arctic on Climate at High Latitudes

1.The Arctic sea ice is shrinking, both in extent and thickness. In addition to the manmade contribution to the sea ice loss, there are also natural factors contributing to this loss. We have therefore investigated the ice export in 6 climate models from the CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparision ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

CryoSat land and sea ice studies in the Arctic

Main objective of the CISAR project is developing methodology for use of CryoSat-2 radar altimeter data in combination with SAR data in Arctic land and sea ice studies and education of young scientists. CryoSat-2 satellite mission, launched in April 2010, will extend the coverage of conventional...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2013

Location: Vestland