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    • Winter circulation anomalies in 2009/10 & 2013/14, and associated forcing mechanisms 

      Asbjørnsen, Helene (Master thesis, 2016-05-31)
      Recent cases of severe winter weather in midlatitude regions have been linked to large-scale atmospheric circulation anomalies, but the physical mechanisms driving such anomalies are poorly understood. In this study the ...

    • Winter storms accelerate the demise of sea ice in the Atlantic Sector of the Arctic Ocean 

      Graham, Robert M.; Itkin, Polona; Meyer, Amelie; Sundfjord, Arild; Spreen, Gunnar; Smedsrud, Lars H.; Liston, Glen E.; Cheng, Bin; Cohen, Lana; Divine, Dmitry; Fer, Ilker; Fransson, Agneta; Gerland, Sebastian; Haapala, Jari; Hudson, Stephen R.; Johansson, Malin; King, Jennifer A.; Merkouriadi, Ioanna; Peterson, Algot Kristoffer; Provost, Christine; Randelhoff, Achim; Rinke, Annette; Rösel, Anja; Sennechael, Nathalie; Walden, Von P.; Duarte, Pedro; Assmy, Philipp; Steen, Harald; Granskog, Mats A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06-25)
      A large retreat of sea-ice in the ‘stormy’ Atlantic Sector of the Arctic Ocean has become evident through a series of record minima for the winter maximum sea-ice extent since 2015. Results from the Norwegian young sea ICE ...

    • Winter Vertical Diffusion Rates in the Arctic Ocean, Estimated From 7Be Measurements and Dissipation Rate Profiles 

      Schulz, K.; Kadko, D.; Mohrholz, V.; Stephens, M.; Fer, Ilker (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Ocean turbulent mixing is a key process affecting the uptake and redistribution of heat, carbon, nutrients, oxygen and other dissolved gasses. Vertical turbulent diffusivity sets the rates of water mass transformations and ...

    • A winter-to-summer transition of bacterial and archaeal communities in Arctic sea ice 

      Thiele, Stefan; Storesund, Julia Endresen; Férnandez-Méndez, Mar; Assmy, Philipp; Øvreås, Lise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-15)
      The Arctic is warming 2–3 times faster than the global average, leading to a decrease in Arctic sea ice extent, thickness, and associated changes in sea ice structure. These changes impact sea ice habitat properties and ...

    • Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems 

      Rixen, Christian; Høye, Toke Thomas; Macek, Petr; Aerts, Rien; Alatalo, Juha; Andeson, Jill; Arnold, Pieter; Barrio, Isabel C.; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Björkman, Mats P.; Blok, Daan; Blume-werry, Gesche; Boike, Julia; Bokhorst, Stef; Carbognani, Michele; Christiansen, Casper Tai; Convey, Peter; Cooper, Elisabeth J.; Cornelissen, J. Hans C.; Coulson, Stephen; Dorrepaal, Ellen; Elberling, Bo; Elmendorf, Sarah; Elphinstone, Cassandra; Forte, T'ai Gladys Whittingham; Frei, Esther R.; Geange, Sonya Rita; Gehrmann, Friederike; Gibson, Casey; Grogan, Paul; Rechsteiner, Aud Helen Halbritter; Harte, John; Henry, Greg H.R.; Inouye, David W.; Irwin, Rebecca; Jespersen, Gus; Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg Svala; Jung, Ji Young; Klinges, David H.; Kudo, Gaku; Lämsä, Juho; Lee, Hanna; Lembrechts, Jonas; Lett, Signe; Lynn, Joshua Scott; Mann, Hjalte Mads; Mastepanov, Mikhail; Morse, Jennifer; Myers-Smith, Isla; Olofsson, Johan; Semenchuk, Philipp; Vandvik, Vigdis (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Snow is an important driver of ecosystem processes in cold biomes. Snow accumulation determines ground temperature, light conditions and moisture availability during winter. It also affects the growing season’s start and ...

    • Wintertime cyclone/anticyclone activity over China and its relation to upper tropospheric jets 

      Chen, Lei; Tan, Benkui; Kvamstø, Nils Gunnar; Johannessen, Ola M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-01-16)
      In this study, the wintertime cyclone/anticyclone activity and its variability over China are examined based on the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) reanalysis ...

    • Wintertime fCO2 variability in the subpolar North Atlantic since 2004 

      Fröb, Friederike; Olsen, Are; Becker, Meike; Chafik, Leon Martin; Johannessen, Truls; Reverdin, Gilles; Omar, Abdirahman (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Winter data of surface ocean temperature (SST), salinity (SSS) and CO2 fugacity (fCO2) collected on the VOS M/V Nuka Arctica in the subpolar North Atlantic between 2004 and 2017 are used to establish trends, drivers, and ...

    • Winter−spring transition in the subarcticAtlantic: microbial response to deep mixingand pre-bloom production 

      Paulsen, Maria Lund; Riisgaard, Karen; Frede, Thingstad; St. John, Mike; Nielsen, Torkel Gissel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-09-23)
      In temperate, subpolar and polar marine systems, the classical perception is that diatoms initiate the spring bloom and thereby mark the beginning of the productive season. Contrary to this view, we document an active ...

    • Wireless motility capsule compared with scintigraphy in the assessment of diabetic gastroparesis 

      Sangnes, Dag André; Søfteland, Eirik; Bekkelund, Mattis; Frey, Jakub; Biermann, Martin; Gilja, Odd Helge; Dimcevski, Georg Gjorgji (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12-30)
      Background: Gastroparesis is a potentially severe late complication of diabetes mellitus. Today, delayed gastric emptying (GE) is mandatory for establishing the diagnosis. In this study, we compared wireless motility capsule ...

    • WiRoM: a High-level Mission Planning System for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Simulations 

      Grutle, Joakim Moss (Master thesis, 2020-06)
      Robots are complicated machines. Today we have a lot of different types of robots, each with different types of sensors and actuators which have their own practical (and impractical) applications. Utilizing the benefits ...

    • Witchcraft and Slavery in Cartagena de Indias 

      Knutsen, Gunnar Winsnes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The witchcraft trials in the Spanish Inquisition's tribunal in Cartagena de Indias had direct links to the trials in Northern Spain. These trials started just after the trials in the Basque country in 1610-14, and show the ...

    • ‘With a Heavy Heart’: Ethics, Emotions and Rationality in Norwegian Immigration Administration 

      Eggebø, Helga (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-04)
      This article analyses decision-making processes concerning applications for family immigration to Norway by giving an account of the dilemmas and challenges faced by the employees of the Norwegian immigration administration. ...

    • "With His Blood He Wrote". Functions of the Pact Motif in Faustian Literature 

      Holgernes, Ole Johan (Doctoral thesis, 2017-05-19)

    • "With intent to destroy": En analyse av kravet til dolus specialis i FNs folkemordkonvensjon artikkel 2 

      Chaudhry, Rahman Akhtar (Master thesis, 2023-06-23)
      Oppgaven undersøker kravet til dolus specialis, også kalt spesielt forsett, i FNs folkemordkonvensjon art. 2. Problemstillingen er hvordan kravet til dolus specialis skal tolkes i henhold til alminnelige folkerettslige ...

    • With the camera as a weapon. A Study of Crowd-sourced Imagery in Arab Revolution Documentaries 

      Dobey, Phoebe Elisabeth Andresen (Master thesis, 2018-08-25)

    • With the cards stacked against you. Challenges to a negotiated transition to democracy in Venezuela 

      Marsteintredet, Leiv (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This article uses the political science literature on transitions to democracy to discuss the domestic challenges to a negotiated transition in Venezuela. Whereas a transition to democracy may occur through many different ...

    • Withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention: de jure and de facto consequences 

      Juvik, Julie Helleseth (Master thesis, 2021-12-10)
      The thesis concerns the opportunity to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, and the legal and factual consequences withdrawal entails.

    • Within and Beyond the Law: The Ethics of Collective Action in Urban Markets, Peru 

      Ødegaard, Cecilie Gro Vindal (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      This article focuses on collective action and leadership in processes of (in)formalizing market work. It examines ways in which semi-legal actors employ ‘modes of administration’ and suggests that market leaders enact a ...

    • Within- and between-subject biological variation data for serum zinc, copper and selenium obtained from 68 apparently healthy Turkish subjects 

      Coşkun, Abdurrahman; Carobene, Anna; Aarsand, Aasne K.; Aksungar, Fehime B.; Serteser, Mustafa; Sandberg, Sverre; Díaz-Garzón, Jorge; Fernandez-Calle, Pilar; Karpuzoglu, Fatma H.; Coskun, Cihan; Klzllkaya, Emine; Fidan, Damla; Jonker, Niels; Ugur, Esra; Unsal, Ibrahim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objectives: Trace elements (TrEL) are nutritionally essential components in maintaining health and preventing diseases. There is a lack of reliable biological variation (BV) data for TrELs, required for the diagnosis and ...

    • Within- and between-subject biological variation data for tumor markers based on the European Biological Variation Study 

      Coşkun, Abdurrahman; Aarsand, Aasne Karine; Sandberg, Sverre; Guerra, Elena; Locatelli, Massimo; Díaz-Garzón, Jorge; Fernandez-Calle, Pilar; Ceriotti, Ferruccio; Jonker, Niels; Bartlett, William A.; Carobene, Anna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objectives: Reliable biological variation (BV) data are required for the clinical use of tumor markers in the diagnosis and monitoring of treatment effects in cancer. The European Biological Variation Study (EuBIVAS) was ...