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NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

POCAHONTAS - Polar Climate and Heat Transport

The main objective of this project is to determine the mean and variation of the combined oceanic and atmospheric heat transports toward Svalbard and the European Arctic. The Norwegian and Arctic climate is much warmer than the local radiation budget woul d suggest, and this is due to oceanic and...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Arctic Frontiers Tromsø 2007 - Science Conference

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Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate effects on planktonic food quality and trophic transfer in Arctic marginal ice zones (MIZ)

This project will investigate how increased light intensities, due to reduced ice concentrations and ice extent, affect timing, quantity and quality of primary and secondary production in the Arctic marginal ice zone (MIZ). The MIZ is the key productive a rea of Arctic shelf seas. The ongoing war...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effects on Population Dynamical Key-Processes of a Changing Climate in Arctic Ecosystems

The present project aims at understanding and predicting how variations and changes in climate can affect key-processes that operate both on population dynamical and ecosystem level. More specifically, we will use long-term monitoring data on population d ynamics and population specific demograph...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Preparing for a rainy day: Configuring climate science for future society

The project will investigate how climate change issues are being understood and appropriated in different strategically important sectors of society, both on local, regional and national level and with a broad geographical diversification. The project wil l focus on climate change management in t...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

ARCTREC: Arctic records of climate change - dynamics, feedbacks and processes

The aim of ARCTREC is to investigate past warm and cold periods with different forcing and boundary conditions than at present to determine the influence of atmosphere and ocean dynamics and key Arctic feedbacks on Arctic climate variability, from a wider range of conditions than available at pr...

Awarded: NOK 17.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Glacial Ocean Mixing: Investigating the role of diapycnal ocean mixing for glacial climate stability and sensitivity

Diapycnal mixing is a source of potential energy in the ocean and is therefore believed to limit the rate of overturning on centennial and longer timescales. For the present-day ocean, winds and dissipation of tidal energy drive the diapycnal mixing with approximately similar contributions. Both ...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Seasonal Predictability over the Arctic Region - exploring the role of boundary conditions

Thus far, seasonal prediction efforts have not made an optimal use of the information that is inherent in the inital states and memories of the cryosphere and the ocean. The impact of stratospheric events also needs to be considered in this context. The o bjective of the proposed project is to ex...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Expected Change in Fisheries in the Barents Sea

Project summary The project focuses on how changes in climate, i.e. increase in temperature, will influence fish stocks and their commercial stakeholders. Changes in fish distribution will not only affect the fisheries directly through changes in possibl e fishing areas, and changes in yield bec...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

PLAN - Responding to Climate Change: The Potentials of and Limits to Adaptation in Norway

PLAN is a coordinated, social science-based research project that analyzes the potentials of and limits to adaptation as a response to climate change in Norway. This four-year project will provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of adaptation a s a social process, with an emphasis on i...

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Civil protection and climate vulnerability

This project takes the link between civil protection and climate change as its starting point. Our aim is to investigate which factors determine the capacity for local adaptation to climate change by studying long-term institutional learning within civil protection institutions in the wake of ext...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Svalbard ice cores and climate variability

In this project we are going to use three already available ice cores from Svalbard to investigate the present and the past 800 years of climate. Two of these cores, from Lomonosovfonna and Austfonna, are fully analysed and the data sets are available. In this proposal we ask for funding to fini...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate change impacts in the Electricity Sector

Climate change will have impacts on electricity markets, both on demand and supply. In Norway, important likely impacts are that the supply of hydropower and wind power will be boosted by weather changes, while warmer winters will dampen heating demand. H owever, in other European countries, the ...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effect of Climate Change on Arctic High-Impact Weather Events (ArcChange)

We propose a coordinated Norwegian research project to study how meso-scale high impact weather in the arctic region of the North Atlantic will be affected by future climate change. The project aims at improving our understanding of the regional climate s ystem in the Arctic. The large scale obse...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Stormwater and roads - dimensioning for climate change

The transport infrastructure is a vital part of the society, with high capital investments, proper management and design of this system is therefore very important. Climate changes will increase the frequency of extreme precipitation events, floods and sn ow melt periods experienced by the infras...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

NJF Seminar 387 27-29 september 2006

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Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Bargaining for Non-Participation? Two-level Games and US Behaviour in the Climate Negotiations

Putnam's theory of two-level games has received widespread attention in the literature on international cooperation. According to this theory, negotiators will look ahead and only consider treaty designs that are likely to achieve ratification in all majo r participating countries. Interestingly,...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Meeting the climate challenge: New legal instruments and issues in national and international energy and climate law

The project takes a broad approach to legal issues inherent in the dynamic and increasingly intertwined fields of national and international climate and energy policy. It is organised within the research group in Natural Resources Law at the Law Faculty w ith broad competence in environmental and...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Winter school in atmospheric chemistry in Ny-Ålesund and at the University Centre in Svalbard - Trace gases and aerosols in the Arctic

Title: Trace gases and aerosols in the Arctic Responsible: Kim Holmén (NILU), Frode Stordal (UiO/NILU) og Lars R. Hole (UNIS/NILU). Guest Teachers: Christoph Heinze (Geophysical institute/University of Bergen), Juha-Pekka Tuovinen (Finnish meteorological institute). Others from the research commu...

Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Quality of soil organic matter in forest and heathland soils, co-operation between Italy and Norway

The Clue project, “Effect of climate change on flux of N and C: air – land – freshwater – marine links”, financed by the Norwegian research council started in 2003 (project No155826/S30). Quantification and characterization of dissolved organic matter (DO M) from soils subjected to different mani...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Marine ecosystem consequences of climate induced changes in water masses off West-Spitsbergen

The overall goal of the MariClim proposal is to determine the influence of climate variability and change on the energy transfer in the marine pelagic ecosystem in different water masses on the west coast of Spitsbergen. The project will compare the pelag ic food webs in fronts involving ArW and ...

Awarded: NOK 12.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Stable isotope signatures in N2O and CH4: linking microbial processes to atmospheric chemistry

The stable isotope content (15N, 18O, 13C, D/H) of atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) reflects the overall balance of isotopic fractionation associated with its formation, transport and destruction. Knowledge of process-specific isotope eff ects has become a powerful tool in clarif...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

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

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Awarded: NOK 0.62 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Punctuated disintegration of the NW European Ice Sheet and rapid climate change

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Awarded: NOK 0.82 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Utenlandsstipend application for Kari Sire Berner

Berner is invited by Dr. J. McManus to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) to colloborate with them on their ongoing research on changes in the strength of Holocene ocean circulation. Berner´s project aims at reconstructing both short and long term trends in the natural climate during the H...

Awarded: NOK 50,999

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Biogeochemistry in Northern Watersheds, a Reactor in Global Change

Land and freshwater ecosystems are important reactors in Global Change; pollution and climate change affect biogeochemical functions, which feeds back on climate forcing and eutrophication through emissions to water and atmosphere. An interdisciplinary wa tershed project is proposed, focusing the...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Utenlandsstipend application for Aurelie Nowinski

Nowinski is invited by Dr. Anne Jennings to Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), Boulder, U.S.A. to colloborate on multiproxy study of cores from the Irminger and East Greenland Currents. Nowinski s project has two main components: 1. Devel oping a set of transfer functions to quan...

Awarded: NOK 51,999

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Ukjent Fylke