Completed projects

CLIMATE FUTURES

"Climate Futures" is a center for Research-based Innovation that aims to produce new and innovative solutions to be able to predict and manage climate risks from ten days to ten years in the future. Stakeholders from various fields such as insurance, shipping, agriculture, fisheries, hydropower, public agencies and more, work closely together in the project.

SMART OCEAN

The center for research-driven innovation "Smart Ocean" is developing a new underwater sensor and communication system along the Norwegian coastline to improve the sustainable management of marine resources, industrial equipment and structure in these regions.

UAK-2

The project "Useful Arctic Knowledge: Training, Collaboration, and Innovation in ocean observing" is a continuation of UAK and will support long-term collaboration between teaching and research institutions in Norway, the USA and Canada within selected themes in the Arctic.

HiAOOS

The Arctic Ocean is an exciting area for researchers. Increased knowledge about the Arctic is of great importance because climate models can be improved if we get more data from the region. In order to obtain better information about the sea under the ice, new technologies will be developed in the project "High Arctic Ocean Observation System".

4SICE

Human activities in the Arctic such as transport or tourism can only take place in a safe way with good warnings for sea ice, both for months and seasons in advance. These alerts need improvement. The project "Towards skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal sea ice prediction" aims to improve one of our sea ice models and use new information from the Arctic to be able to produce better sea ice warnings for these periods.

SASIP

In the "Scale-Aware Sea Ice Project", a new way of modeling sea ice is being developed. Producing high-resolution and large-scale predictions of sea ice will lead to a better understanding of how increased warming affects polar regions. This project is supported by Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt that bets early on exceptional people making the world better, particularly through innovative breakthroughs in science and technology. It is a project of Schmidt Futures' Virtual Earth System Research Institute (VESRI).

C3S2

There is a large database for climate data all over the world that is part of the EU's Earth observation system Copernicus. In the project "Tender C3S2_520 for Quality Assurance for Datasets in the Climate Data Store", the data is quality assured to ensure that it is reliable.

ACCIBERG

The presence of sea ice and icebergs in the Arctic Ocean presents challenges for shipping, fisheries and tourism. Rising temperatures lead to increased ship traffic in the area. The project "Arctic Cross-Copernicus forecast products for sea ice and icebergs" aims to create precise warnings about the spread of sea ice and icebergs, both in the near future and through seasonal warnings.  The research will contribute to safer navigation in the Arctic.

NECCTON

Biodiversity in the sea is absolutely essential for over three billion people on earth, both for work and food. The project "New Copernicus capability for trophic ocean networks" aims to develop new products to support improved conservation of diversity and management of food resources.

IMPETUS4CHANGE

Adapting society to the changing climate will become even more important in the near future. It is therefore important to know as much as possible about the changes on short time scales such as 1-10 years in the future, especially at local and regional level. The project "Improving near-term climate predictions for societal transformation" aims to improve true climate predictions and to make them more accessible and useful for society.