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
TRIATLAS
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Climate Dynamics and Prediction, Ocean Modeling
Achieve skillfull south and Tropical Atlantic marine ecosystems prediction
AOIP
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Sea Ice Modelling
This project is about improving our understanding of some atmosphere-ocean-ice interaction processes, as well as our ability to model them and their impact
BCPU
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Enhance climate prediction to the level where it benefits society
CAATEX
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Climate Dynamics and Prediction, Polar Acoustics and Oceanography, Scientific Data Management
During the MOSAiC drift, two sound sourcs in fixed moorings will transmit a signal which will be received on listen cables in 5 fixed moorings and four drifting drifting receivers hundreds of kilometers away from the sound sources.
Marine Data i Arktis
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Polar Acoustics and Oceanography, Scientific Data Management
Dette prosjektet skal lage en dynamisk oversikt over relevante observasjons-systemer, datasamlinger og dataforvaltningssystemerfor Arktiske hav-områder og dermed øke nytteverdien av innsamlede data.
SFE
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The aim of SFE is to develop a state-of-the-art operational seasonal climate prediction system for Northern Europe and the Arctic.
LEGACY
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Sea Ice Modelling
The Nansen Legacy provides an integrated scientific knowledge base required for the sustainable management through the 21st century of the environment and marine resources of the Barents Sea and adjacent Arctic Basin.
UAK
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Polar Acoustics and Oceanography, Scientific Data Management
Useful Arctic Knowledge - Partnership for Research and Education funded by the INTPART program.
RISES
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This is a strategic project of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.
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.
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Completed Projects
iNcREASE
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InCREASE seeks to improve projections of future sea level in the North Sea and along the Norwegian coast
SPICES
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SPICES will develop new and innovative sea ice products that can be used as indicators of climate change in the polar ocean, as well as for securing operations in ice-infested waters.
ARC MFC
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The Arctic Marine Forecasting Center will provide operational forecasts of ocean currents, temperature, salinity, primary production, sea ice and waves out to 10 days ahead as well as reanalyses over the past 25 years.
OSITAC WITS
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WITS will provide operational (Level 3 and 4) observational multi-mission data products derived from upstream satellite earth observation (L2) data. These data products include important sea surface temperature (SST), sea ice and wind variables.
neXtWIM
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neXtWIM is focusing on developing an Arctic forecasting platfrom for sea ice and ocean waves, by combining the neXt generation Sea Ice Model neXtSIM and the Waves in Ice Model WIM both currently developed at NERSC.
SONARC
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SONARC is a NORRUSS project contributing to research cooperation between Norway and Russia with focus on satellite technology for safe navigation and maritime operations in the Arctic. SONARC was running from April 2015 to November 2018
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.
Horizon 2020 GAIA-CLIM
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GAIA-CLIM will establish sound methods for the characterisation of satellite-based Earth Observation data by surface-based and sub-orbital measurement platforms - spanning Atmosphere, Ocean and Land observations.
IceMotion
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IceMotion will provide new SAR-derived sea ice motion data based on combined use of
feature tracking and Doppler shift data for research and monitoring in ice-covered Polar seas.
