Completed projects

ARIA

Strong storms in the Arctic can break up and reshape sea ice on the sea surface. It is expected that this will happen more easily and more often due to man-made climate change and ongoing thinning of sea ice. In the project "Atmospheric sea ice interactions in the new Arctic", research will be conducted on the interaction between air, sea and sea ice and how this will change in the future.

The Nansen Legacy

The project "The Nansen Legacy" aims to provide knowledge about the rapidly changing marine climate and ecosystem in the northern Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Sustainable management of natural resources, such as fish, in these areas needs a scientific basis that must be improved.

CMEMS Arctic Ocean MFC 22-24

The production of Arctic ocean data for the EU's "Copernicus"-program is led by the Nansen Center. Copernicus provides updated forecasts and reanalyses for the Arctic Ocean, including sea ice, biological, and chemical variables. Forecasts are relevant for safe navigation in the Arctic.

Copernicus CMEMS SI TAC 22-24

The EU's Earth observation program Copernicus has various working groups and in the project "Copernicus Sea Ice Thematic Assembly Center" work is being done to deliver products that include sea ice satellite data such as weather forecasting in polar regions and marine safety for ships.

APASIP

In order to produce automated ice maps over the entire Arctic region, the researchers in the project "Automatic pan-Arctic Sea Ice Product from high-resolution satellite data" are developing automatic algorithms to retrieve sea ice concentration and ice type from satellite data using artificial intelligence.

BCPU

The researchers in the "Bjerknes Climate Prediction Unit" project aim to produce the world's best warning system for the climate in northern regions. Improving climate prediction should provide better warnings, from which the whole of society can benefit.

COSI

Safe navigation through the Arctic requires precise sea-ice warnings. In the project "Calibration of sea-ice forecasts", research is being done on how the quality of the forecasts can be improved. The aim is to be able to offer more accurate information, useful for among others, shipping in the Arctic.

DRAGON5

"DRAGON 5" is a collaborative program between ESA and MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology) in China with a focus on using measurements from satellites (Copernicus Sentinels, ESA, Chinese) in geoscience and monitoring. There are 55 Chinese and European collaborative teams participating that address 10 different topics within Earth system research, including oceanography, meteorology, geology, ecosystem, environment and climate.

Roadmap Oceans

In the future, it will be even more important to know the causes of extreme weather and climate extremes. The project "Role of ocean dynamics and ocean-atmosphere interactions in driving climate variations and future projections of impact-relevant extreme events" will find out how the state and dynamics of the ocean affect the atmospheric circulation in extratropical areas in the northern hemisphere.

MEDLEY

The topmost layer of seawater is a mixed layer of saltwater and freshwater with significance for physical and biological processes in the sea. Ocean and climate models cannot reproduce the properties of the layer well enough today. This will change through the work in the "Mixed layer heterogeneity" project.