Browsing Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) by Title
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Analysis of merged SMMR-SSMI time series of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice parameters 1978-1995
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1997-02-15)The most consistent means of investigating the global sea ice cover is by satellite passive microwave sensors, as these are independent of illumination and cloud cover. The Nimbus 7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer ... -
Application of a hybrid EnKF-OI to ocean forecasting
(Journal article, 2009-10-01)Data assimilation methods often use an ensemble to represent the background error covariance. Two approaches are commonly used; a simple one with a static ensemble, or a more advanced one with a dynamic ensemble. The latter ... -
Arctic Sea level Budget Assessment During the GRACE/Argo Time Period
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Sea level change is an important indicator of climate change. Our study focuses on the sea level budget assessment of the Arctic Ocean using: (1) the newly reprocessed satellite altimeter data with major changes in the ... -
Barents Sea seasonal ice zone features and processes from ERS 1 synthetic aperture radar: Seasonal Ice Zone Experiment 1992
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1999-07-15)Sea ice features and processes in the Barents Sea were studied during the Seasonal Ice Zone Experiment 1992 (SIZEX92), a dedicated ERS 1 satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) field campaign carried out in March 1992. ... -
Characterizing chaotic dispersion in a coastal tidal model
(Journal article, 2006-07-03)Diverse Lagrangian methods are used to study dispersion and mixing in a model in the Norwegian Trondheim fjord. We focus on the tidally driven currents, neglecting wind-forcing, and generate a large number of particle ... -
Coastal wind field retrievals from ERS synthetic aperture radar images
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1998-04-15)A unique series of European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS) 1 and 2 C band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images was obtained off the southern coast of Norway during the Coast Watch’95 experiment in September 1995. In this ... -
Cover ERS-1/2 SAR monitoring of dangerous ice phenomena along the western part of Northern Sea Route
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Data assimilation for coastal zone monitoring and forecasting
(Elsevier oceanography series. (EuroGOOS publication no. 7), Chapter, 1997) -
Diapycnal Mixing in a Conceptual Model of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
(Journal article, 2006)A three-box model of the Atlantic Ocean is used to examine the influence different parameterisations of the diapycnal mixing may have on the large scale dynamics of the ocean circulation. Special emphasis is given to the ... -
Dr. Stein Sandven of NERSC on Arctic Regional Ocean Observing Systems
(Interview, 2008-10-17)http://www.sciencepoles.org/interview/arctic-regional-ocean-observing-systems -
Earth science – oceanography
(Chapter, 2002)Satellite oceanography began with the Gemini XII flight in November 1966. From a Hasselblad camera mounted in the pilot’s window large internal waves in the eastern tropical Atlantic were photographed via sunglitter for ... -
An ERS 1 synthetic aperture radar image of atmospheric lee waves
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1994-11-15)An ERS 1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image of the island Hopen shows a distinct 7.6-km wavelength wave phenomenon near the island. This wave phenomenon is interpreted as the surface imprint on open water of atmospheric ... -
Evaluating Global Ocean Carbon Models: The Importance of Realistic Physics
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2004-09-15)A suite of standard ocean hydrographic and circulation metrics are applied to the equilibrium physical solutions from 13 global carbon models participating in phase 2 of the Ocean Carbon-cycle Model Intercomparison Project ... -
Evaluation of ocean carbon cycle models with data-based metrics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004-04-02)New radiocarbon and chlorofluorocarbon-11 data from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment are used to assess a suite of 19 ocean carbon cycle models. We use the distributions and inventories of these tracers as quantitative ... -
Formulation of the planetary boundary layer feedback in the Earth´s climate system
(Journal article, 2008)Recent publications have revealed that the state-of-the-art climate models are probably not sensitive enough to observed changes in the surface air temperature. This fact calls for the search of feedback mechanisms making ... -
Future climate change: Modeling and scenarios for the Arctic
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Greenland Ice Sheet Elevation Ehange in Winter and Influence of Atmospheric Teleconnections in the Northern Hemisphere
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Greenland Sea Odden sea ice feature: Intra-annual and interannual variability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1998-06-15)The “Odden” is a large sea ice feature that forms in the east Greenland Sea that may protrude eastward to 5 °E from the main sea ice pack (at about 8 °W) between 73° and 77 °N. It generally forms at the beginning of the ... -
Heat and Mass Transfer Laws for Turbulent Convective Flows in the Atmosphere over Leads in Ice Covered Oceans, C32A-1123, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 5-9 December, San-Francisco, USA
(Conference poster, 2005)Patches of open water (cracks, leads and polynias, Figure 1) in theice cover give major contributions to turbulent exchanges of heat, moisture, CO2 and other gases between the atmosphere and Polar oceans. Here, convective ... -
Heat in the Barents Sea: Transport, storage, and surface fluxes
(Journal article, 2010-01-11)A column model is set up for the Barents Sea to explore sensitivity of surface fluxes and heat storage from varying ocean heat transport. Mean monthly ocean transport and atmospheric forcing are synthesised and force the ...