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Understanding soil moisture in the Northern Areas: Toward an integrated representation of the Arctic Hydrological Cycle

Climate research shows that the northern latitudes could face an increase in risk of extreme weather events in the future, such as heavy precipitation and droughts. The PhD-student has in this project applied data assimilation to combine satellite observations and model derived soil moisture esti...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2019

Location: Akershus

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Probing cosmological evolution with the most powerful lenses in the universe.

Quasars are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe: Hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy can emit much more radiation than the rest of the galaxy. If a sufficiently massive object is located along the line of sight to a quasar, the light from the ...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Oslo

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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

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Euclid Conference "Beyond LCDM"

One of the greatest unsolved problems in cosmology today is the question of the cause of the accelerating expansion of the Universe. The European space mission Euclid, which will be launched in 2020, is the most advanced probe to address this problem. No rway has a major involvement in Euclid, a...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2015

Location: Oslo

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In Situ,Remote,and Laboratory Investigations of Mesospheric Aerosols/Dust and Their Role in Atmospheric Chemical and Physical Processes.

The main goal of the project is to improve our understanding of the physics and chemistry of the mesosphere in order to include this part of the Earth atmosphere in climate models. Better knowledge on the chemical properties of nanoparticles in the middle atmosphere is an important aspect in this...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Norwegian Participation in Euclid: Implementation phase, part 2

One of the most outstanding problems in physics and astrophysics today is the existence of dark energy, which is inferred from the apparent accelerated expansion of the universe. Dark energy is believed to comprise about 70% of the energy content of the universe today, however, its nature is larg...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2018

Location: Oslo

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Cometary plasma environment studied by the Rosetta spacecraft

After 10 years in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Rosetta had finally rendezvoused and then accompanied comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on its journey around the Sun. Its mission was to explore an ancient and mysterious frozen world formed at the beginning of the solar system, more...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2015-2020

Location: Oslo

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Combined satellite observation for current mass balance and decadal changes of the Antarctic Ice Shelves

The mass balance of the Antarctic Ice Sheet has a direct impact on the global sea level and thus its assessment is crucial to predict near-future changes of the global environment in response to a warming world. Ice shelves are freshwater ice already discharged from the grounded ice sheet and cur...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2020

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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In Situ,Remote,and Laboratory Investigations of Mesospheric Aerosols/Dust and Their Role in Atmospheric Chemical and Physical Processes.

The project MAXIDUSTY-II (MXD-II) is centered on preparing a rocket payload specially designed to investigate ice and dust cloud particles in the Earth's middle atmosphere at heights above ca 80 km. MXD-II will contain up to 6 different ice and dust probes, some of totally new design, to improve...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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The influence of meso-scale flow channels on polar cap patch formation

Every day plasma clouds are created in the upper atmosphere that move with velocities between 500 and 1000 m/s across the polar region. These clouds can disrupt electromagnetic signals between the ground and satellites, signals that are used for communication and navigation services in the arctic...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

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Solar Atmospheric Modelling

Solar magnetism lies at the root of most solar and heliospheric physics. The intricate structure of the solar field, the activity cycle and the influence of the field on the heliosphere represent major quests of (astro) physics which bear directly on the human environment. The sun's magnetic fiel...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Oslo

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Norwegian use of the Planck LFI experiment: Analysis phase

The European space agency ESA's mission Planck, which was in operation from 2009 to 2013, has revolutionised cosmology. Even the very first cosmological results, which were made public in the first half of 2013 and were published in 2014 as 31 articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics, gave highly i...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2017

Location: Oslo

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The Norwegian Cluster studies 2014-2016

Cluster is a European Space Agency (ESA) multi-satellite project launched in 2000 to study the terrestrial magnetosphere and its boundary regions. Norwegian space science groups at the University of Bergen (UiB), the University of Oslo (UiO) and the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (FFI) ...

Awarded: NOK 0.60 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Vestland

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ICI 4DSpace 2014-2016 : Investigation of Cusp Irregularities by 4D Space measurements

Energy from the solar wind give rise to interference to the radio signal in the polar cap. Satellite-based navigation and communication systems are severely disrupted during powerful solar storms. GPS users with demands on accuracy and reliability want a space weather forecast, which can pre-warn...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2021

Location: Oslo

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GOCE for coastal ocean dynamics and geodesy

ESAs GOCE satellite orbited the Earth between 2009 and 2013. It was designed to observe the gravitational field of the planet at an elevation of 250 km. Six accelerometers made repeated measurements of the derivative of gravitation in three directions in space. The resolution at the surface of th...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2014-2018

Location: Akershus

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Solar-Terrestrial Coupling through High Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere: a Norwegian contribution (HEPPA-Norway)

To understand the impact of the Sun on the Earth middle atmosphere, lower atmosphere and surface climate is the focus of major international scientific programmes. The importance of solar forcing relative to anthropenic forcing over various time scales from minutes to centuries is not fully eluci...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Akershus

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SWARM Explorer: Combined use of satellite and airborne magnetic field data to explore lithospheric magnetisation

Magnetic gradient data from the new SWARM satellite mission will provide new high-resolution data for Earth. We intend to combine this data set with conventional airborne magnetic data sets to the study the magnetisation of the lithosphere. We will explor e how magnetic data from different times,...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Prosjektet "Kombinert studie med fjernmåling og in situ observasjoner av havistykkelse og havisbevegelse i Framstredet" (acronym CORESAT) har forbedret vår forståelse av havistykkelse og isdrift i Framstredet og ved Svalbard. Tilstanden til havisen i Framstredet er av betydning for klimaet i Arkt...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Ground-based solar observational campaigns to strengthen Hinode and IRIS science

It is common wisdom that space-based astronomical observatories open new windows on the universe. The Hinode satellite opened a new window on the Sun by putting an optical telescope into the seeing-free environment of outer space. Hinode's solar telescope has sufficiently large aperture (0.5 m) ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2017

Location: Oslo

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Sources and nature of remanent magnetization and susceptibility: Keys to interpretation of magnetic anomalies over continental lithosphere

The recent SWARM satellites provide new data on the Earths magnetic field. Using these satellites magnetic maps of the entire globe are produced and large-scale features can be examined. When data are combined with high-resolution aeromagnetic surveys we can further develop, and advance our explo...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2018

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Solar Atmospheric Modelling, adjunct professor position

The temperature decreases from the solar core to the visible surface but then increases through the chromosphere to the million degree hot solar corona. This heating of the solar outer atmosphere is one of the major unsolved problems in solar physics. In the project "Solar Atmospheric Modelling" ...

Awarded: NOK 0.91 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2016

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Remote Sensing of Ocean Circulation and Environmental Mass Changes

The REOCIRC project develops methods for using satellite measurement to estimate the strength of ocean currents. The satellite uses an altimeter to measure the distance down to the sea surface, and this is what we use to calculate the ocean current. The ocean works more or less like the atmospher...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Svalbard

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Meso-scale plasma flow channels and their potential space weather effects

The ionospheric cusp is a very complex region of the polar cap ionosphere. As high resolution measurements become available, meso-scale structures are revealed. However, only recently the resolution has become sufficient and coverage available to study me so-scale phenomena in detail. In the last...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo

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PermaSAR: SAR detection of permafrost landscape changes in northern Norway and on Svalbard

One of the main tasks of the Research Project PermaSAR are using satellite radar interferometry (InSAR) to produce maps showing the movement of the ground in areas of permafrost, and to characterize the seasonal freezing and thawing processes. One of the most common landforms in areas of permaf...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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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

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Simultaneous Retrieval of Aerosol and Water Quality Parameters from Ocean Colour Data in High-Latitude Coastal Waters

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Vestland

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Mesopause temperatures by lidar

Stjerneskudd og meteor-aske i den øvre atmosfæren Vi gjennomførte bakkebaserte målinger under en rakettkampanje på Andøya samtidig med meteorsvermen Geminidene. Vi fant at mengden av både natrium og meteoriske røykpartikler i mesosfæren henger sammen med antall sporadiske meteorer. Temperat...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Space weather effects in the upper atmosphere on navigation signals

The project investigates plasma irregularities in the upper atmosphere which disturb signals from navigation satellites (GPS, GLONASS and GALILEO). To document the effects we have installed receivers at four sites: Ny-Ålesund, Longyearbyen, Hopen and Bjørnøya. For up to 120 satellites simultaneou...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2014

Location: Vestland

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Synergy in Computational Astrophysics

A common hardware platform for solar physics and cosmology was built by purchasing computing equipment for about 2 million NOK in 2013 and 2014. This was integrated with computing infrastructure purchased both with own funding and funded from other externally funded projects to become a High Perf...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo

ROMFORSK-Program for romforskning

Norwegian Participation in Euclid: Implementation phase

The Euclid project is now well advanced, with launch planned for 2020. We participate in many parts of the project, including in the leadership through the Norwegian member of the Euclid Consortium Board. By now, 14 Norwegian scientists are members of the Euclid consortium. On contract with th...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Oslo

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