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IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Norwegian-US Antarctic IPY Traverse (TASTE-IDEA)

The objectives will be accomplished through a coordinated program of field observations, remote sensing, and modeling. The core of the work is two overland traverses in Dronning Maud Land (DML), East Antarctica: 1) from Norwegian Troll Station (72º 0? S, 2º 32? E) to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Sta...

Tildelt: kr 16,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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...

Tildelt: kr 32,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

DOC turnover in polar microbial food webs.

Microbial communities, including phytoplankton, protozoa, bacteria, archaea, fungi and virus, are by far the most abundant and the most taxonomic and genetically diverse group of organisms in marine pelagic ecosystems. Biological activity, biomass, produc tion and remineralization in these system...

Tildelt: kr 8,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Geohazards and the transport sector under climate change

This project is based on the ongoing work in the Geoextreme project, funded by NORKLIMA, and aims at extending the usage of Geoextreme results by deriving consequences of a change in the frequencies of geohazards for the transport sector. The transport al ong key roads and for railway within two ...

Tildelt: kr 1,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole

Marine Mammal Exploration of the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) will deploy state-of-the-art animal-borne CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) tags on strategically chosen, deep-diving marine mammal species to explore their current movement patterns, behaviou r and habitat utilization in Polar Region...

Tildelt: kr 6,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CRYOSLOPE - Monitoring, dating and modelling climate change effects on high arctic mountain slope processes and their impact on traffic ...

CRYOSLOPE Svablard will study how cold mountain slopes in Svalbard will respond to future projected climatic changes and how these potential changes could affect the traffic on the roads in the Longyearbyen settlement and the surrounding highly used winte r roads connecting the settlements and to...

Tildelt: kr 2,9 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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...

Tildelt: kr 2,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

What was the palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean in Middle Eocene times?A study into the nature and genesis of biosiliceous-rich laminae

High abundances of marine diatoms and freshwater chrysophyte cysts are preserved in mm-scale laminated organic-rich Middle Eocene sediments on the Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean. This work aims to elucidate the nature and genesis of the laminations i n terms of biosiliceous components and ch...

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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...

Tildelt: kr 59,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Diet and Reproductive Output in Arctic Molluscs: the Importance of Ice Algae and Phytoplankton (DREAM)

Algae that are associated with the arctic sea ice (ice algae) can constitute a significant fraction of total primary production, and play a fundamental role in polar ecosystems. The recently documented reduction of ice coverage may result in a significant shift in the relative contributions of i...

Tildelt: kr 0,87 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

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...

Tildelt: kr 10,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Causes and consequences of a large-scale shift from sugar kelp (Saccharina latissima) to ephemeral algae and implications for management

The SACCHARINA project is based on the dramatic decline in the sugar kelp forest along the coast of Southern Norway. The sugar kelp normally dominates the sea-bed at 2 to 15 m depth in sheltered coastal areas of the Norwegian coast. Surveys have found tha t the sugar kelp forests have disappeared...

Tildelt: kr 5,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 10,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Climate change impact on catchment-coast processes and governance in the 21st Century

The aim of the project is to launch the exchange of research information on the environmental and economic changes in the coastal zone observed in Norway and on European scale. The parties to this exchange are the research community collaborating within t he IGBP/ IHDP Land Ocean Interactions in ...

Tildelt: kr 0,40 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Norwegian-Russian joint analysis and inter-calibration of climate observations and sensors within the IPY cluster project ARCDIV.NET

The Arctic climate is warming and its changes affect the whole physical climate system. The regional patterns of temperature, declining snow cover and increasing precipitation are modulated by natural modes of the atmospheric circulation. These are also k ey driving forces that govern arctic biot...

Tildelt: kr 0,84 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 7,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 5,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

Measurements of Black Carbon aerosols in Arctic snow - interpretation of effect on snow reflectance

Snow covered surfaces have relatively high albedo and most of the incoming solar radiation is reflected. Consequently, the temporal evolution of surface albedo in the Arctic is of high relevance for the surface energy balance, melting processes and climat e. BC particles emitted by fossil fuel an...

Tildelt: kr 0,90 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2014

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

POLRES-Polarforskning POLRES

A comparison of data from atmospheric research stations at Summit, Greenland, and Zeppelin, Svalbard

Researchers from the U.S. and Norway have recently started an informal collaboration to share re-sources used to interpret atmospheric chemistry data and exploit data together from the Summit, Greenland and Zeppelin, Svalbard stations (Sjostedt et al., 20 06; Stohl et al., 2006). SUMSVAL shall st...

Tildelt: kr 1,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 0,55 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Recruitment study on North Sea fish stocks

Recruitment to several of the ecologically and commercially important fish stocks in the North Sea has been strongly reduced during the recent years, causing concern for fishers, managers and scientists alike. This includes herring, cod, haddock, sandeel, and Norway pout. We propose an applied a...

Tildelt: kr 7,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 17,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: 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 ...

Tildelt: kr 2,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 7,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 1,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 9,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 26,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 3,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Cascading effects of climate change and UV envirotoxins on the nutritional quality of the food base in marine ecosystems

With the current focus on ecosystem-based approaches to the management of marine resources establishing the effects of various environmental variables on the flow of energy through marine ecosystems is essential, and strongly prioritized. The research pro posed here uses two variables (temperatur...

Tildelt: kr 2,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 2,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Ukjent Fylke