In the September issue of Deep Sea Research Cecilie Hansen, E. Kvaleberg and Annette Samuelsen publish the paper “Anticyclonic eddies in the Norwegian Sea; their generation, evolution and impact on primary production”.

In the paper they use satellite radar altimetry and ocean color observations in combination with a coupled physical-primary production ocean model to investigate anticyclonic eddies at two locations in the Norwegian Sea. Of particular interest are the formation of the anticyclonic eddies, and their influence on primary production.

Pavel Sakov and Laurent Bertino conducted a comparative study of two non-adaptive localisation methods popular in operational oceanographic and atmospheric data assimilation systems: covariance localisation (CL) and local analysis (LA). Both methods are applied mainly on empirical basis, and the relation between them remains largely unknown.

The authors conclude that while CL and LA are essentially different methods, in practice they normally produce essentially similar results. Apart from this main conclusion, the study contains a number of interesting theoretical advances.

The Nansen Centers in Bergen and St. Petersburg have published result and knowledge obtained through a wide range of joint Norwegian and Russian scientific research projects starting in 1992 with the foundation of the Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NIERSC) in St. Petersburg.

Several of these books have been published through Praxis Publishers, UK (http://www.praxis-publishing.co.uk/) and their cooperation with Springer (http://www.springer.com/).

In the EU-funded ACOBAR project (Acoustic technology for observing the interior of the Arctic Ocean) an ocean monitoring system for acoustic tomography and navigation is under deployment in the Fram Strait. The system will consist of three acoustic transceivers in a triangle and a receiver array in the middle (see upper part of the Figure - A-B-C are transceivers, D is the receiver). This system will provide acoustic travel times for model validation, assimilation and temperature inversions along 6 tracks in the Fram Strait.

The Nansen Center continues to monitor faith of the 270 km2 “Petermann Ice Island (2010)” that broke off from the Petermann Glacier on northeast Greenland on August 5th.

According to the attached Landsat image the Petermann Ice Island (2010) has on August 15th drifted about 8.5 km out (north-westward) in the Petermann fjord.

See also initial news story from the Nansen Center:

http://www.nersc.no/main/index2.php?display=moreinfo&news_id=322&display...

Professor Ola M. Johannessen er tildelt æresmedlemskap i Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi, NTVA. Diplom og medlemskapsnål i gull overleveres ved årets NTVA Teknologiforum i Trondheim 10. september.
Johannessen tildeles æresmedlemskapet både for sin store innsats for norsk polarforskning, for sin rolle som aktiv forsker, gründer og organisator, for sitt brede internasjonale engasjement, og for sitt betydelige bidrag for å etablere NTVAs aktiviteter i Bergen.

Professor Ola M. Johannessen er tildelt æresmedlemskap i Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi, NTVA. Diplom og medlemskapsnål i gull overleveres ved årets NTVA Teknologiforum i Trondheim 10. september.
Johannessen tildeles æresmedlemskapet både for sin store innsats for norsk polarforskning, for sin rolle som aktiv forsker, gründer og organisator, for sitt brede internasjonale engasjement, og for sitt betydelige bidrag for å etablere NTVAs aktiviteter i Bergen.

NTVA begrunner utnevnelsen som følger: "Ola M. Johannessen er født 2 juli 1938.

Styreformann Prof. Ola M. Johannessen tar opp manglende statlig grunnbevilging til Nansensenteret i et debattinnlegg i Bergens Tidende, se

Link to more info.

ESA’s week-long Living Planet Symposium in Bergen have gathered more than 1200 scientists from around the world. Scientists and the agency share the state-of-the art knowledge within satellite Earth observations technology and applications.

The Nansen Center is heavily involved in the Symposium being hosted here in Bergen. Vice-director Johnny A. Johannessen gave an overview of 20 years of ERS and Envisat achievements during the plenary opening on of the Symposium. Scientist from the Nansen Center in Bergen and St.