Completed projects

CMEMS ARC-MFC 24-28

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.

CMEMS SI TAC 25-28

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.

S1-POP

The aim is to develop advanced "Sentinel-1 processor for ocean products" (S1-POP), improving accuracy and adding new variables for operational and scientific users. The project focuses on enhancing sea state measurements, quantifying Surface Current Radial Velocity, harmonizing wind and wave retrievals, and introducing new SAR-derived parameters like rain rate and sea-ice concentration to optimize ocean state estimation.

UAK-2

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

C3-eKerala

In the project "Climate change impact on the marine coastal ecosystem of Kerala", researchers from the Nansen Center and India investigate how climate change, through sea-level rise and waves, affects the coasts and ecosystems along the coast in the state of Kerala in India. They want to find out more about the changes so that authorities and societal actors can better plan climate adaptation measures.

BASIC

The Arctic is changing: There is more open sea and less sea ice in the summer now, and more newly formed sea ice in the winter than a few decades ago. The project "Climate response to a bluer Arctic with increased newly-formed winter sea ice" will look at the consequences of these changes for the climate in the Arctic, in Europe and in Asia.

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".

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.    

DRAGON6

"DRAGON 6 - Lofoten eddies on Atlantic Water" 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 Chinese and European collaborative teams participating that address different topics within Earth system research, including oceanography, meteorology, geology, ecosystem, environment and climate.

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.