Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center

— a non-profit research institute affiliated with the University of Bergen

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The world of molecules

Spiral eddies Satellite detected oil spills near offshore installations Spring bloom of phytoplankton Open ocean ventilation and mixing

Daily Arctic Sea Ice Area

The Nansen Center monitors daily the Arctic Sea ice area using various satellite data sources. The latest satellite data are from 09/07/2010 when the Arctic ice area was 4185600.0 km2. The minimum in 2008 was observed on 09/06 being 4185600.0 km2. For comparison the minimum ice area ever observed in the Arctic was 3293737.4 km2 on 08/07 in year 2009. Further information at http://arctic-roos.org/observations.

News

Impact of anticyclonic eddies on the primary production in the Norwegian Sea.

In the September issue of Deep Sea Research Cecilie Hansen, E. Kvaleberg and Annette Samuelsen p ...

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3. Sep, Lasse H. Pettersson

Unique oceanographic observations - "Jotun Arctic" on survey to East Greenland fjord

During the last three years the Nansen Center has collected unique oceanographic measurements in ...

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1. Sep, Alexander Korablev

A new insight into localisation methods in ensemble Kalman filter systems

Pavel Sakov and Laurent Bertino conducted a comparative study of two non-adaptive localisation m ...

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31. Aug, Pavel Sakov

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