The objective of this thesis is to investigate the feasibility of a large scale hybrid system at Fakken, Troms. There is already an existing 54 MW wind farm at site. The wind farm has considerably higher power production during winter compared to summer, and the electricity grid is therefore not fully exploited during summer. Adding a solar panel utility to the site could be a solution to this issue. ...

Sediment core HH16-549GC from Vestnesa Ridge in the Fram Strait, western Svalbard, has been investigated in order to reconstruct paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic conditions from 31,000 to 7500 cal years BP. Vestnesa Ridge is located in an area with extensive seepage of methane from the ocean floor. The core is retrieved from within a pockmark to reconstruct possible changes in seepage of methane ...

Gravity core HH18-1500GC retrieved from the Hinlopen Trough, Arctic Ocean, has been investigated in order to reconstruct the climatic evolution and ocean circulation over the last 16 000 years. The core was taken at the edge of the trough on the northern Svalbard shelf in order to be certain to reach into till, with the intent of dating the retreat of the ice sheet. The Fram Strait is located between ...

Information about snow covered area is important for several purposes, and this information can be found by detecting reflection of optical waves using optical sensors or by using active radars such as SAR. This thesis is explaining how information from the measurements are used to make snow maps. Optival sensors cannot detect snow when the area is covered by clouds, and this is a problem in the ...

This thesis compares polarimetric features from quad-polarimetric (quad-pol) SAR (synthetic aperture radar) data and emulated dual-polarimetric (dual-pol) SAR data to investigate the information captured over sea ice areas located in the Barents Sea. The polarimetric features of entropy (H) and mean alpha, and the H/mean alpha-plot is compared, as well as the cross-polarizarion ratio and the damping ...

Time series from chaotic and stochastic systems share properties which can make it hard to distinguish them from each other. The Complexity-Entropy analysis provides appropriate measures of entropy and complexity and representing the calculated values in the representation space, the Complexity-Entropy plane, have been shown to be able to distinguish between time series of stochastic and chaotic ...

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions alter the planet's energy balance and cause heating of the surface and oceans. Estimates of the implications of continued emissions are necessary to assess the severity of the situation. The transient climate response (TCR) is a measure of the climate's response to a continued increase in CO2 concentration, and indicates how much the temperature will increase ...

The current standard operational strategy within electrical power systems is done following deterministic reliability practices. These practices are deemed to be secure under most operating situations when considering power system security, but as the deterministic practices do not consider the probability and consequences of operation, the operating situation may often become either too strict or ...

This thesis has focused on the depositional environments of the Upper Triassic Snadd Formation. This formation covers the time-period Ladinian to early Norian with multiple marine regressions and transgressions, resulting in depositional environments ranging from offshore marine shelf to a coastal plain. A 3D seismic dataset and its correlating well have been studied and a refined seismic stratigraphic ...

This master thesis is focused on studying the Vestnesa Ridge located west of Svalbard. The Vestnesa Ridge is a 100 km long and about 3 km wide sediment drift located on the recently uplifted Svalbard margin. The crest of the ridge is represented with numerous pockmarks with different size, orientation and elongation. High resolution seismic data connected pockmarks with acoustic chimneys and faults ...