Arctic ROOS

Paper published on Arctic sea ice thickness by NIERSC and NERSC

A paper on sea ice thickness retrieval from freeboard data is published in The Cryosphere Discussions 4, 641-661, 2010 with title "The relation between sea ice thickness and freeboard in the Arctic" by Vitaly Alexandrov, Stein Sandven, Johan Wåhlin and Ola M. Johannessen. The paper is available at the link below and is open for interactive discussion.

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Published: 2010-05-04

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Successful launch of a new ice satellite - CRYOSAT 2

The European CryoSat 2 satellite was successfully launched on April 8th at 15:57 European time from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Professor Stein Sandven, director at the Nansen Center, is a member of the ESA CryoSat science team that has contributed to the development of the satellite. He regards the successful launch of the satellite as “a significant step towards obtaining important and highly needed measurements of sea ice thickness, which will contribute to increase our knowledge about the processes influencing climate changes in the Arctic”.

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Published: 2010-04-09

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Book published about radioactivity in the Arctic and Nordic Seas.

The book “Radioactivity and Pollution in the Nordic Seas and Arctic Region: Observations, Modelling and Simulations” has been published by Springer-Praxis is book No. 5 in the Nansen Center´s Polar Series. The authors are Ola M. Johannessen, Vladimir A. Volkov, Lasse H. Pettersson, Vladimir S. Maderich, Mark J. Zheleznyak, Yongqi Gao, Leonid P. Bobylev, Andrey V. Stepanov, Ivan A. Neelov, Viktor P. Tishkov and Sven P. Nielsen, from several Norwegian, Russian, Ukraine and Danish research institutions.

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Published: 2010-03-16

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New Director at the Nansen Center in Bergen

Founding Director Ola M. Johannessen retired as Director of the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center after 23 years work the 31/12-2009. Stein Sandven is now employed as Director for the next two years from 1/1-2010, with Dr. Johnny A. Johannessen as Vice Director.

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Published: 2010-01-05