Completed projects

ForWArd

With the decline in Arctic sea ice in the last decades, and the trend expecting to continue in the future, the Arctic Ocean is more and more exposed to larger waves due to winds. In the "Forecasting wave impact as Arctic sea ice declines" project,  the impact of waves on sea-ice evolution in the rougher and rougher Arctic Ocean will be assessed.    

FAIR2Adapt

The multidisciplinary project "FAIR to Adapt to Climate Change" is geared towards transforming data into actionable knowledge to shape climate adaptation strategies. By transforming data into flexible, practical, and resilient climate adaptation strategies, FAIR2Adapt will construct a scalable and extensible model for data sharing that can be adapted to multiple climate adaptation scenarios.    

Euro-Argo ONE

The international Argo program is a major component of both the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). OneArgo is an upgrade of the Argo program designed to intensify the monitoring of climate change and ocean health. The upgrade includes the Polar Argo mission and BGC Argo programs. The project "Euro-Argo ERIC scaling up for OneArgo Network Extension" aims to set in place the necessary evolutions and step changes towards OneArgo array implementation.

SAMOS

The aim of the "South African Master of Ocean Sciences" (SAMOS) project is to establish a master's degree that is internationally recognised, innovative and of high quality. The master's degree will educate researchers who can contribute to the development of a sustainable blue economy, thereby strengthening regional capacity to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

UpperDyn

The "Upper Ocean Dynamics" project will deliver new capabilities for assessing variability and uncertainty in upper ocean dynamics. It will provide decision makers a means of quantifying the effects of local patterns of sea level rise, heat uptake, carbon storage and change of oxygen content and pH in the ocean. The project's approach will account for transport on scales that are currently not always well represented in computer simulations, yet are observable by satellites, drifters and floats and expected to significantly contribute to the ESA Digital Twin Components for the Ocean.

DynAMIC

The project "Detecting episodes of Arctic sea ice Mass Imbalance" will combine existing satellites to detect 3D sea-ice mass balance snapshots. The project will use machine learning to optimise the sea ice ridging scheme in models and build Norwegian capacity in sea-ice observation-model integration.

ARC-FRESH

The overall objective of the "Arctic Freshwater Budget" project is to advance the current state of knowledge on the freshwater fluxes and freshwater budget in the Arctic Ocean, maximizing the use of Earth Observation-derived ECV datasets generated in the Climate Change Initiative program of the European Space Agency.

ARCA

The project "Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities" brings together a diverse team of experts—from climate scientists and social anthropologists to artists and Indigenous communities—to explore how biocultural heritage can be a powerful tool for climate adaptation in Arctic cities. By combining traditional knowledge with modern scientific methods, the project aims to create sustainable, culturally sensitive solutions for addressing the rapid climate changes in cities like Anchorage, Kirkenes, Tromsø, and Fairbanks. The goal is to bridge the gap between science and Indigenous wisdom, ensuring a holistic approach to preserving the environment while fostering resilience in these communities.  

ARCFISH

The project “Digital Twin of the Ocean for Arctic Fisheries” is a Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP) project that will develop a pilot Digital Twin of the Ocean (DTO) Platform delivering new data products and services in support of sustainable Arctic Fisheries. These data products and services will be co-designed with stakeholders in the fisheries sector to create products such as ecosystem indices that can be applied in fisheries planning and management.

4SICE

Human activities in the Arctic such as transport or tourism can only take place in a safe way with good forecasts for sea ice, both for months and seasons in advance. These forecasts 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 forecasts for these periods.