Johnny A. Johannessen

Job Position: 
Vice-director
 
Department: 
Mohn-Sverdrup Center for Global Ocean Studies and Operational Oceanography
 
Group: 
Ocean and Coastal Remote Sensing Group
 
E-mail: 
 
Phone: 
+47 932 49 414
 

Academic Degree

 
Field of Research: 
oceanography
remote sensing
 

Main Research Area

Arctic and Marine Remote Sensing Studies
Ocean Modelling, Data Assimilation and Forecasting
Johnny Johannessen

Project leader of the following projects

  1. GreenSeas: Development of global plankton data base and model system for eco-climate early warning
  2. NORMAP: Norwegian Satellite Earth Observation Database for Marine and Polar Research
  3. MONARCH-A: MONitoring and Assessing Regional Climate change in High latitudes and the Arctic
  4. DRAGONESS: DRAGON in support of harmonizing European and Chinese marine monitoring for Environment and Security System
  5. MERSEA: Marine Environment and Security for the European Area
  6. MARSAIS: Demonstrating environmental products based on EO data
  7. MONCOZE: MONCOZE

Peer Review Publications and Books

40 total publications.

In Press

  1. Petrenko, D, Pozdnyakov, D, Johannessen, JA, Counillon, F, Sychev, V . In Press . Satellite derived multi-year trend in primary production in the Arctic Ocean . International Journal of Remote Sensing and Remote Sensing Letters
  2. Dagestad, K-F, Hansen, MW, Johannessen, JA, Chapron, B . In Press . A method to retrieve temporal averages of 2D ocean surface currents from Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler shift . Springer
  3. Kozlov, IE, Kudryavtsev, VN, Johannessen, JA, Chapron, B, Dailidienėf, I, Myasoedov, AG . In Press . Envisat ASAR imaging of coastal upwelling in the Baltic Sea: case study with modeling . Elsevier . Advances in Space Research

2012

  1. Hansen, MW, Kudryavtsev, V, Chapron, B, Johannessen, JA, Collard, F, Dagestad, K-F, Mouche, A . 2012 . Simulation of radar backscatter and Doppler shifts of wave-current interaction in the presence of strong tidal current . 10 . Elsevier . Remote Sensing of Environment . 120
  2. Godø, OR, Samuelsen, A, Macaulay, GJ, Patel, R, Hjøllo, SS, Horne, J, Kaartvedt, S, Johannessen, JA . 2012 . Mesoscale Eddies Are Oases for Higher Trophic Marine Life . 1 . e30161 - . Public Library of Science . PLoS ONE . 7
  3. Samuelsen, A, Hjøllo, SS, Johannessen, JA, Patel, R . 2012 . Particle aggregation at the edges of anticyclonic eddies and implications for distribution of biomass . 12 . Ocean Science . 8
  4. Mouche, A, Collard, F, Chapron, B, Dagestad, K-F, Guitton, G, Johannessen, JA, Kerbaol, V, Hansen, MW . 2012 . On the use of Doppler shift for sea surface wind retrieval from SAR . IEEE . Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

2011

  1. Kozlov, IE, Kudryavtsev, VN, Johannessen, JA, Chapron, B, Dailidienė, I, Myasoedov, AG . 2011 . ASAR imaging for coastal upwelling in the Baltic Sea . 13 . Advances in Space Research
  2. Haines, K, Johannessen, JA, Knudsen, P, Lea, D, Rio, M-H, Bertino, L, Davidson, F, Hernandez, F . 2011 . An ocean modelling and assimilation guide to using GOCE geoid products . Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union . Ocean Science . 7
  3. Hansen, MW, Johannessen, JA, Dagestad, K-F, Collard, F, Chapron, B . 2011 . Monitoring the surface inflow of Atlantic Water to the Norwegian Sea using Envisat ASAR . 13 . Journal of Geophysical Research . 116
  4. Hansen, MW, Collard, F, Dagestad, K-F, Johannessen, JA, Fabry, P, Chapron, B . 2011 . Retrieval of Sea Surface Range Doppler Velocities from Envisat ASAR Doppler Centroid Measurements . 10 . 11 . IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing . 49

2010

  1. Rouault, MJ, Mouche, A, Collard, F, Johannessen, JA, Chapron, B . 2010 . Mapping the Agulhas Current from space: an assessment of ASAR surface current velocities . C10026 . 14 . American Geophysical Union . Journal of Geophysical Research . 115

2009

  1. Backeberg, B, Bertino, L, Johannessen, JA . 2009 . Evaluating two numerical advection schemes in HYCOM for eddy-resolving modelling of the Agulhas Current . 2 . 173-190 . Copernicus . Ocean Science . 5
  2. Milutinovic, S, Behrenfeld, MJ, Johannessen, JA, Johannessen, T . 2009 . Sensitivity of remote sensing–derived phytoplankton productivity to mixed layer depth: Lessons from the carbon-based productivity model . 4 . 16 . American Geophysical Union . Global Biogeochemical Cycles . 23

2008

  1. Backeberg, B, Johannessen, JA, Bertino, L, Reason, CJC . 2008 . The greater Agulhas Current system: An integrated study of its mesoscale variability . 1 . 29-44 . The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (IMarEST) . Journal of operational oceanography . 1
  2. Johannessen, JA, Collard, F, Kudryavtsev, VN, Akimov, DD . 2008 . Direct ocean surface velocity measurements from space: Improved quantitative interpretation of Envisat ASAR observations . L22608 . 6 . American Geophysical Union . Geophysical Research Letters . 35

2007

  1. Siegismund, FF, Johannessen, JA, Drange, H, Mork, KA, Korablev, A . 2007 . Steric height variability in the Nordic Seas . American Geophysical Union . Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) . 112

2006

  1. Johannessen, JA, Winther, N . 2006 . North Sea circulation: Atlantic inflow and its destination . C12018 . American Geophysical Union . Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) . 111

2005

  1. Johannessen, JA, Kudryavtsev, VN, Akimov, DD, Eldevik, T, Winther, N . 2005 . On radar imaging of current features: 2. Mesoscale eddy and current front detection . C07017 . American Geophysical Union . Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) . 110
  2. Kudryavtsev, VN, Akimov, DD, Johannessen, JA, Chapron, B . 2005 . On radar imaging of current features: 1. model and comparison with observations . C07016 . American Geophysical Union . Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans) . 110

Other Publications and Works

2012

  1. Kudryavtsev, V, Myasoedov, A, Chapron, B, Johannessen, JA, Collard, F . 2012 . Joint sun-glitter and radar imagery of surface slicks . 123 - 132 . Remote Sensing of Environment . 120
  2. Berger, M, Moreno, J, Johannessen, JA, Levelt, PF, Hanssen, RF . 2012 . ESA's sentinel missions in support of Earth system science . 84 - 90 . Remote Sensing of Environment . 120
  3. Kudryavtsev, V, Myasoedov, A, Chapron, B, Johannessen, JA, Collard, F . 2012 . Imaging mesoscale upper ocean dynamics using synthetic aperture radar and optical data . C4 . Journal of Geophysical Research . 117
  4. Kudryavtsev, VN, Chapron, B, Myasoedov, AG, Collard, F, Johannessen, JA . 2012 . On Dual Co-Polarized SAR Measurements of the Ocean Surface . 1 - 5 . IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  5. Hansen, MW, Johannessen, JA, Raj, R . 2012 . Mapping the Nordic Seas surface velocity using Envisat ASAR (2) . Kochi, Kerala, India, 5-9 November 2012 . Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference
  6. Hansen, MW, Johannessen, JA, Raj, R . 2012 . Mapping the Nordic Seas surface velocity using Envisat ASAR . Tromsø, Norway, 18-22 June 2012 . ESA . SeaSAR 2012

2011

  1. Hansen, MW . 2011 . Sea Surface Range Doppler Retrievals from Synthetic Aperture Radar . University of Bergen, Geophysical institute . Doctoral thesis no. 93
  2. Backeberg, B, Bernard, S, Johannessen, JA, Shillington, F . 2011 . Proceedings of the Joint Nansen-Tutu scientific opening symposium & OceansAfrica Meeting . 75 . Westin Grand Cape Town, Arabella Quays, Cape Town, South Africa, 7-9 December 2010 . Nansen Tutu Center . Nansen-Tutu Centre Scientific Opening Symposium
  3. Bondevik, E . 2011 . Studies of Ice edge eddies using Synthetic Aperture Radar . University of Bergen, Geophysical institute
  4. Dagestad, K-F, Johnsen, H, Engen, G, Johannessen, JA . 2011 . Ocean currents peerformance models for bi-static Sentinel-1 comparison . 318 . NERSC . NERSC Technical report
  5. Johannessen, JA, Chapron, B, Backeberg, B . 2011 . New gravity field, mean dynamic topography and surface geostrophic current derived from space . Cape Town, South Africa July 2011 . Nansen-Tutu Centre Scientific Opening Symposium
  6. Kozlov, I, Kudryavtsev, V, Johannessen, JA . 2011 . Measuring interior ocean parameters from space: Oceanic internal waves in the Barents Sea . Vistula Spit, Russia, 05-10 September 2011 . The International Conference of Young Scientists ”Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Changing World”,
  7. Milutinovic, S . 2011 . The Influence of Input Uncertainties on Remotely Sensed Estimates of Ocean Primary Productivity . University of Bergen, Geophysical institute . Doctoral thesis no. 91
  8. Kozlov, I, Kudryavtsev, V, Johannessen, JA, Dailidiene, I, Myasoedov, A . 2011 . SAR imaging of the coastal upwelling in the Baltic Sea . St. Petersburg, Russia 22-26 August 2011 . The 8th Baltic Sea Science Congress
  9. Kozlov, I, Kudryavtsev, V, Johannessen, JA, Chapron, B, Dailidiene, I, Myasoedov, A . 2011 . All-weather satellite observations of marine thermal fronts in the Baltic and Barents Seas . Vistula Spit, Russia, 05-10 September 2011 . The International Conference of Young Scientists ”Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Changing World

2010

  1. Johannessen, JA . 2010 . Vi tar pulsen på planeten . Bergen . Bergens Tidende
  2. Backeberg, B . 2010 . Modelling the mesoscale variability in the greater Agulhas Current System using a Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model . Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, South Africa . Doctoral Thesis No. 83
  3. Myasoedov, AG, Kudryavtsev, VN, Chapron, B, Johannessen, JA . 2010 . Sunglitter imagery of ocean surface phenomena . 8 . ESA-ESRIN, 25-29 January 2010 . 3rd International Workshop SEASAR 2010
  4. Hansen, MW, Dagestad, K-F, Johannessen, JA, Mouche, A, Collard, F . 2010 . ASAR surface velocity retrievals in the Northeast Atlantic . Bergen, June 28 - July 2, 2010 . ESA Living Planet Symposium
  5. Dagestad, K-F, Johannessen, JA, Hansen, MW . 2010 . Wind Retrieval over the Ocean from Combined Use of Synthetic Aperture Radar and Weather Forecast Models . Bergen, June 28 - July 2, 2010 . ESA Living Planet Symposium