Ongoing projects

CCI + SSS

How salty the sea surface is has an impact on the global ocean circulation, the water cycle and the climate. The amount of salt can be measured from space with satellites. The project "Climate Change Initiative Extension Phase 2 - Sea Surface Salinity" will produce highly reliable information about salt over the entire sea surface in the period 2010-2019. The data set will support research on e.g., the climate.

ARCTIC+ SALINITY

Measuring the salinity of the sea in the Arctic with satellites is difficult, but the project "Arctic+ Salinity" aims to do exactly this. This gives you the greatest possible coverage compared to local measurements directly in the water. How much salt there is on the surface of the sea water says something about freshwater movements and thus has an impact on the climate the Arctic undergoes.

OTC23

In connection with the circumnavigation with Statsraad Lehmkuhl, the Nansen Center and ESA are jointly organizing a course on board the sailing ship: "Advanced Ocean Synergy Training Course 2022/23". Students and young researchers take part in a theoretical part before coming on board the sailing ship to take part in the practical training. The aim is to learn how satellite data of the ocean can be used to monitor changes and compared with ocean measurements and model fields. The project is linked to the PECO2 project.

PILOT PROSJEKT VEIKART

Earth observations from satellites in space are of great importance for various fields, such as research, monitoring and services. The project "Roadmap for national strengthening of interdisciplinary development and use of Earth observations until 2030" will provide an overview of the opportunities to strengthen Norway's role as a leading nation regarding Earth observations from satellites in the northern regions and the Arctic.

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.

CAPARDUS Extension in Norway

The "CAPARDUS Extension in Norway" project is an additional project to CAPARDUS EU and focuses on network Svalbard with the involvement of players in tourism, the local council, the head of the administration and researchers from both the natural and social sciences. The project will contribute to ensuring that research on the archipelago has societal value.

FYB II

By including school pupils in Norway and the USA, the project "Float Your Boat" aims for the rising generation to better understand processes in the Arctic that affect the climate. The students make small wooden boats and ice buoys that can be followed via GPS on their journey in and out of the Arctic.

COMBINED

Both the Arctic and the Tibetan Plateau have been warming three times faster than the rest of the world. The causes are being researched in the project "Accelerated Arctic and Tibetan Plateau warming: processes and combined impact on Eurasian climate" and the findings will be used to improve calculation methods for the Eurasian climate.

PARCIM

In the project "Proxy assimilation for reconstructing climate and improving model", a review of the climate in the last 1000 years is developed using completely new methods. The data set shall be available online and shall also be used to study variations in the climate during this period and to be able to improve climate models.

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.