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    • On the modulation of the periodicity of the Faroe Bank Channel overflow instabilities 

      Darelius, Elin Maria K.; Fer, Ilker; Rasmussen, Till; Guo, Chuncheng; Larsen, Karin Margretha Húsgarð (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-10-26)
      The Faroe Bank Channel (FBC) is one of the ma- jor pathways where dense, cold water formed in the Nordic Seas flows southward as a bottom-attached energetic plume towards the North Atlantic. The plume region downstream of ...

    • On the nature of the factors that control spring bloom development at the entrance to the Barents Sea and their interannual variability 

      Olsen, Are; Johannessen, Truls; Rey, Francisco (Journal article, 2003-12)
      Analysis of data obtained by the Institute of Marine Research, Norway, at their regular surveys of the Fugløya-Bjørnøya section, between the northern tip of Norway and Bear Island, has allowed for an identification of the ...

    • On the Nordic Seas’ role in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation 

      Iovino, Doroteaciro (Doctoral thesis, 2007-06-27)
      In the present climate, the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) plays a fundamental role in the global transport of heat at high latitudes. The response of the North Atlantic Ocean-Nordic Seas THC to surface ...

    • On the Origins of Open Ocean Oxygen Minimum Zones 

      Davila, Xabier; Olsen, Are; Lauvset, Siv Kari; McDonagh, Elaine Louise; Brakstad, Ailin; Gebbie, Geoffrey (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Recent work suggests that Oxygen Minimum Zones (OMZs) are sustained by the supply of oxygen-poor waters rather than the export of organic matter from the local surface layer and its subsequent remineralization inside OMZs. ...

    • On the potential of 230Th, 231Pa, and 10Be for marine rain ratio determinations: A modeling study 

      Heinze, Christoph; Gehlen, M.; Land, C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006-06-16)
      The global distributions of the radionuclides 230Th, 231Pa, and 10Be are simulated with a biogeochemical ocean general circulation model. Sensitivity experiments for changes in the composition of the particle composition ...

    • On the recent time history and forcing of the inflow of Atlantic Water to the Arctic Mediterranean 

      Nilsen, Jan Even Øie; Hátún, Hjalmar; Sandø, Anne Britt; Bethke, Ingo; Laurantin, Olivier; Gao, Yongqi; Drange, Helge; Furevik, Tore (Extended Abstract for The ACIA International Scientific Symposium on Climate Change in the Arctic, Conference lecture, 2004)

    • On the seasonal signal of the Filchner overflow, Weddell Sea, Antarctica 

      Darelius, Elin Maria K.; Strand, Kjersti Opstad; Østerhus, Svein; Gammelsrød, Tor; Årthun, Marius; Fer, Ilker (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      The cold ice shelf water (ISW) that formed below the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf in the southwestern Weddell Sea, Antarctica, escapes the ice shelf cavity through the Filchner Depression and spills over its sill at a rate of ...

    • On the Use of Dual Co-Polarized Radar Data to Derive a Sea Surface Doppler Model - Part 2: Simulation and Validation 

      Fan, Shengren; Zhang, Biao; Moiseev, Artem; Kudryavtsev, Vladimir; Johannessen, Johnny Andre; Chapron, Bertrand (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Doppler shift obtained from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) measurements comprises the combined contribution to the radial motion of the ocean surface induced by the sea state (wind waves and swell) and underlying surface ...

    • On the utility of individual tendency output: Revealing interactions between parameterized processes during a marine cold air outbreak 

      Kähnert, Marvin; Sodemann, Harald; de Rooy, Wim; Valkonen, Teresa Maaria (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Forecasts of marine cold air outbreaks critically rely on the interplay of multiple parameterization schemes to represent subgrid-scale processes, including shallow convection, turbulence, and microphysics. Even though ...

    • One more step toward a warmer Arctic 

      Polyakov, Igor V.; Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka; Carmack, Eddy C.; Dmitreko, Igor A.; Fahrbach, E.; Frolov, Ivan E.; Gerdes, Rüdiger; Hansen, Edmond; Holfort, Jürgen; Ivanov, Vladimir V.; Johnson, Mark A.; Karcher, Michael; Kauker, Frank; Morison, James; Orvik, Kjell Arild; Schauer, Ursula; Simmons, Harper L.; Skagseth, Øystein; Sokolov, Vladimir T.; Steele, Michael; Timokhov, Leonid A.; Walsh, David; Walsh, John E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2005-09-09)
      This study was motivated by a strong warming signal seen in mooring-based and oceanographic survey data collected in 2004 in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean. The source of this and earlier Arctic Ocean changes lies ...

    • One-dimensional evolution of the upper water column in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic Ocean in winter 

      Fer, Ilker; Peterson, Algot Kristoffer; Randelhoff, Achim; Meyer, Amelie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-03)
      A one-dimensional model is employed to reproduce the observed time evolution of hydrographic properties in the upper water column during winter, between 26 January and 11 March 2015, in a region north of Svalbard in the ...

    • A one-year comparison of new wind atlases over the North Sea 

      Cheynet, Etienne; Solbrekke, Ida Marie; Diezel, Jan Markus; Reuder, Joachim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The New European Wind Atlas (NEWA) and the Norwegian hindcast archive (NORA3) database have become publicly available since the end of 2019 and mid-2021, respectively. They aim to model the long-term wind climatology with ...

    • Open-source feature-tracking algorithm for sea ice drift retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR imagery 

      Muckenhuber, Stefan; Korosov, Anton Andreevich; Sandven, Stein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-04-26)
      A computationally efficient, open-source feature-tracking algorithm, called ORB, is adopted and tuned for sea ice drift retrieval from Sentinel-1 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images. The most suitable setting and parameter ...

    • Open-source sea ice drift algorithm for Sentinel-1 SAR imagery using a combination of feature tracking and pattern matching 

      Muckenhuber, Stefan; Sandven, Stein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-08-07)
      An open-source sea ice drift algorithm for Sentinel-1 SAR imagery is introduced based on the combination of feature tracking and pattern matching. Feature tracking produces an initial drift estimate and limits the search ...

    • OpenDrift v1.0: A generic framework for trajectory modelling 

      Dagestad, Knut-Frode; Röhrs, Johannes; Breivik, Øyvind; Ådlandsvik, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-04-13)
      OpenDrift is an open-source Python-based framework for Lagrangian particle modelling under development at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute with contributions from the wider scientific community. The framework is ...

    • Operational algorithm for ice–water classification on dual-polarized RADARSAT-2 images 

      Zakhvatkina, Natalia; Korosov, Anton; Muckenhuber, Stefan; Sandven, Stein; Babiker, Mohamed (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-01-11)
      Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from RADARSAT-2 (RS2) in dual-polarization mode provide additional information for discriminating sea ice and open water compared to single-polarization data. We have developed an automatic ...

    • Operational modelling to assess advective harmful algal bloom development and its potential to impact aquaculture 

      Dees, Paul; Dale, Andrew; Callum, Whyte; Beth, Mouat; Keith, Davidson (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      A particle tracking model is described and used to explore the role of advection as the source of harmful algal blooms that impact the Shetland Islands, where much of Scotland's aquaculture is located. The movement of ...

    • Optimization of the Offshore Wind Inter-Array Cable Layout problem using heuristic based algorithms 

      Fotedar, Sunney (Master thesis, 2018-06-13)
      The current work presents an in-exact solution method used to identify feasible, and less costly inter-array cable layout for offshore wind farms. The solution method developed has been built considering the interests of ...

    • Origin of moisture at Arctic sites 

      Jonassen, Trine (Master thesis, 2016-06-01)
      The hydrological cycle is an important component in the understanding of the climate system, and a good understanding of the moisture transport in the atmosphere is important in a changing climate. The climate change may ...

    • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography 

      Rabe, Benjamin; Baumann, Till Martin; Divine, Dmitry; Fer, Ilker; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Granskog, Mats; Koenig, Zoe Charlotte; Muilwijk, Morven; Sundfjord, Arild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Arctic Ocean properties and processes are highly relevant to the regional and global coupled climate system, yet still scarcely observed, especially in winter. Team OCEAN conducted a full year of physical oceanography ...