Completed projects

NorArgo2

A multitude of Argo buoys float up and down in the water column in all the world's oceans. They collect information about the ocean that is of great importance for research, monitoring and climate modelling. The project "A Norwegian Argo Infrastructure - a contribution to the European and global Argo infrastructure" supports the program with up to 50 Argo buoys in the Nordic Seas, the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean.

UNDER ICE & CANAPE 

In the project "UNDER-ICE & CANAPE: Analysis and publication" a method has been established to assimilate distance- and depth-averaged sound speed derived from acoustic tomography observations. The published study demonstrates the utility of acoustic tomography observations to improve ocean state estimates.

SERUS

The aim of the project "Building socio-ecological resilience through urban green, blue and white space" is to improve life in Arctic cities with regard to socio-ecological resilience. Focus must be placed on areas with plants, open water and snow or ice cover and its importance for quality of life.

INES

Estimating the way in which the climate throughout the world is going to change is useful for the world community at different levels. CMIP (coupled model intercomparison project) will soon start phase 7, where the Norwegian model NorESM will again be involved to contribute to improved climate forecasts. These are used in the IPCC reports and other assessments. The project "Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System modelling" works to prepare the model for this work.

NMDC

The "Norwegian Marine Data Centre" is a national data infrastructure that provides access to marine data and observations for sea areas of interest to Norway. The Nansen Center contributes with expertise in scientific data handling and formatting and with its own data from the Arctic Ocean.

SIDRiFT

The Arctic is changing and the sea ice in particular is changing rapidly. The project "Sea Ice Deformation and Snow for an Arctic in Transition" will estimate how strong the sea-ice deformation has been in recent years. Old and new satellite observations are used to find out.

AI4ARCTIC

In the project "AI4 Arctic challenge automatic sea ice charting", artificial intelligence is used to improve both snow mapping in Scandinavia and sea-ice mapping in the sea around Greenland.

HAVNIVÅ KSS 2022

The project "Norsk Klimaservicesenter (KSS) Sea level project: Facilitating and disseminating knowledge about sea level rise" aims to produce input for a report on sea level rise in Norway, which will be part of the report on climate change in Norway. The report is published by the Directorate of the Environment. The input on sea level changes comes from observations and calculations and a major focus is on storm surges and extreme waves.

CAATEX

Sound can be used to measure the temperature of the ocean. The project "Coordinated Arctic Acoustic Thermometry Experiment" assessed the temperature of the Arctic Ocean for one year using acoustic thermometry to improve our knowledge of how much heat the ocean holds.

MOIRA

Cracks and ridges in sea ice are found everywhere in the Arctic. They vary in width, length, height and where and how often they appear. These features are possibly linked to ice movement processes. The project "Model for Sea Ice Radar Image Microstructure" studies this connection using satellite images.