Ongoing projects

SMART OCEAN

The center for research-driven innovation "Smart Ocean" is developing a new underwater sensor and communication system along the Norwegian coastline to improve the sustainable management of marine resources, industrial equipment and structure in these regions.

MAXSS

Strong wind events have a major impact on the interaction between air and sea. The project "Marine atmosphere extreme satellite synergy" will improve the observation and characterization of such events, through the use of different data sets from satellites and the earth's surface.

Cryo-TEMPO

The European satellite mission CryoSat-2 has been circling the world since 2010. The satellite sends a lot of useful information, especially from the polar regions. In the project "CryoSat-2 thematic products", products are developed to use the satellite data in the best possible way. The products will help improve research on sea ice, land ice, polar seas, coastal seas and lakes.

CLIMATE FUTURES

"Climate Futures" is a center for Research-based Innovation that aims to produce new and innovative solutions to be able to predict and manage climate risks from ten days to ten years in the future. Stakeholders from various fields such as insurance, shipping, agriculture, fisheries, hydropower, public agencies and more, work closely together in the project.

PECO2

The project "Partnership for Operational Oceanography" was created to develop a collaboration platform between the partner institutions in Norway, South Africa, China, France, and India. It will be used to share advanced knowledge and experience in operational oceanography and support the training and education of the next generation of experts. The voyage from Maputo to Cape Town aboard St. Lehmkuhl with 60 students from 25 nations is included in the teaching and training.

CoRea

In order to understand what leads to variations in the climate and what proportion is man-made, information from back in time is needed. The project "Coupled reanalysis of the climate back to 1850" will create a look back at the climate (a reanalysis) from 1850 to today - 170 years, with a major focus on changes in the sea.

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.

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.

EUREC4A-OA

Scientists need a better understanding of how clouds form over the ocean and how the ocean and atmosphere are connected on daily time scales. The project "Improving the representation of small-scale nonlinear ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate models" shines a spotlight on these processes.

NICEST-2

The project "The Nordic Collaboration on e-Infrastructures for Earth System Modelling, phase 2" aims to support climate model use by improving workflow. It should be easier to make climate models work as efficiently as possible.