Projects
The Nansen Center is a project oriented international research centre focusing on the basic research within marine environment and ocean forecasting, satellite remote sensing and climate studies and modelling. Our research is funded by projects granted through competitive calls by research councils, space agencies, EU, national and international government agencies, industry and private donations.
Some of our on-going research projects are listed below. The list is being populated with the most recent and on-going projects and later updated with other major completed research projects.
Ongoing Projects
FRASIL
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Sea Ice Modelling
On simulating leads in the Arctic sea ice using the new Lagrangian model neXtSIM, and on studying their impact on the ocean mixing, heat budget and primary production.
Blue-Action
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Climate Dynamics and Prediction
Blue-Action is a 5-year European project of Horizon 2020 Blue Growth coordinated by the Danish Meteorological Institute with 41 partners. Prof. Y. Gao is a key partner and is leading work package 3.
CONNECTED
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Climate Dynamics and Prediction
The project aims to further strengthen the research and research training activities between China and Norway.
NextGEOSS
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Polar Acoustics and Oceanography, Scientific Data Management, Sea Ice and Land Ice Remote Sensing
The NextGEOSS project will implement a federated access for Earth Observation data, including user friendly tools for data mining, discovery, access and exploitation.
INTAROS
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Climate Dynamics and Prediction, Polar Acoustics and Oceanography, Scientific Data Management
INTAROS is a research and innovation action under the H2020-BG-09 call in 2016 and will run from 2016 to 2021.
EmblAUS
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Data Assimilation
Bayesian Data Assimilation
InterDec
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Climate Dynamics and Prediction
InterDec aims at understanding the origin of decadal-scale climate variability in different regions of the world and their linkages, using observational data sets and through coordinated multi-model experiments.
REDDA
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Data Assimilation
Big Data methods in geosciences
ARCPATH
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Climate Dynamics and Prediction
Focus on changes that will happen in the near future, with the overarching goal of fostering responsible and sustainable development.
IMOS
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Climate Dynamics and Prediction, Scientific Data Management
IMOS will support long-term synergistic cooperation between Russian and Norwegian scientists working in Svalbard by establishing a joint marine plankton observatory in Isfjorden.
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Completed Projects
KARA3
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Increase and further evaluate the forecast quality of the current neXtSIM-F forecasting platform, and improve the dissemination of the results to end-users.
DASIM
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DASIM will explore the mathematical issues for assimilating data in modern sea-ice models
Ocean Flagship
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The Ocean Flagship is established bringing together main partners involved in the long-term ocean observations around Svalbard. The project will initiate a new Svalbard Science Forum (SSF) flagship program.
RG5-LF
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The project is devoted to improvement of lead fraction retrievals in the Arctic from satellites. These will then be used to study processes such as heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere and brine rejection during the ice formation.
KARA2
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Development of a new sea ice forecasting platform for the Barents/Kara Seas
SWARP
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SWARP develops downstream services for sea ice and waves forecasting in the Arctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ). SWARP will integrate the new met-ocean services into contingency planning and onboard navigation softwares
EXPLAIN
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The EXPLAIN project created new forcing dataset based on observations with which to drive NorESM and investigate its ability to reproduce the observed warming hiatus.
JIP-ART Oil-in-Ice
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Within an international consortium of partners from highly recognized research institutions in France, Germany and Norway, NERSC proposes new sea ice model developments related to ice dynamics
SIMECH
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SIMech proposes to develop a unique sea ice model based on a new rheology that will reproduce for the first time the brittle mechanical behaviour of the sea ice cover.
ONR-Acoustics
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The impact of sea ice on acoustic propagation is one of the least understood in Arctic propagation, because it is a combined effect of reflection (ice thickness and material properties) and scattering from a highly variable and rough surface.
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