Northern Norway experienced an intensely snow rich winter in 1997 when settled snow heights reached a record 240 cm at the weather station in Tromsø on April 29th. Numerous avalanches, settlement evacuations, and two fatalities in a destroyed house in the settlement of Breivikeidet left the public exhausted at the end of the winter. The chaotic response to avalanche events during the season demonstrated ...

The continental lithospheric mantle (CLM) beneath the southern margin of the Congo craton has remained elusive, mainly because of the thick Phanerozoic sedimentary cover concealing possible kimberlite and lamproite diatremes. In this study, we explore this lithospheric mantle section using major and trace element compositions of mantle-derived clinopyroxene and garnet xenocrysts from kimberlites of ...

<p>Understanding the influence of the Sun and space on the Earth's atmosphere is of current interest, as it may be valuable in the context of global climate change research. Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes (PMSE) are phenomenona that rely on the presence of ice particles, offering insights into the mesosphere's temperature and water vapor content. This thesis aimed to investigate PMSE in the upper ...

The Norwegian Sea oceanic basins and prograded margins have developed since NE Atlantic break-up in the earliest Eocene. Significant amounts of sediments were fed to the regionally subsiding and widening Norwegian Sea during the Cenozoic as a result of several phases of uplift and erosion of the bounding shelves and their hinterland. Despite an overall passive-margin evolution, the area experienced ...

With the introduction of autonomous and remotely-controlled ships, close vessel encounter can be associated with higher risk of collision or near-miss scenarios. To avoid these possible incidents, a higher level of situation awareness is required to support the respective decision-making process in maritime navigation. Advanced Ship Predictors (ASPs) are thus proposed to be a solution framework to ...

Methane-rich emissions to the seafloor along the Arctic mid-oceanic ridge hold strong astrobiological significance, as they may represent analogues of putative hydrothermal vent environments on Enceladus. Although such environments on Enceladus would be ideal to sample in future astrobiological missions, this may not be possible due to technological and logistical limitations. As such, searching for ...

¹⁹F NMR parameters are versatile probes for studying metal-fluoride complexes. Quantum chemical calculations of ¹⁹F NMR chemical shifts enhance the accuracy and validity of the resonance signal assignments in complex spectra. However, the treatment of solvation effects in these calculations remains challenging. In this study, we establish a successful computational protocol ...

This thesis presents the design,implementation,and evaluation of a multi-angle illumination micro- scope tailored for 3D refractive index (ri) reconstruction using the Multi-Slice Beam Propagation (msbp) method. The system combines custom-built hardware, including precision-aligned optical components and motorized kinematic mirrors, with computational algorithms developed in Python toachievehi ...

The availability of In-Silco blood glucose simulators that accurately depict all aspects of Diabetes Mellitus patient’s daily life is crucial for the development of safe and effective new treatment technologies. Current state of the art simulators focus on modeling a meal’s effect on the glucose-insulin system solely based on the quantity of carbohydrates consumed. However not only the quantity of ...

Borealis is a recently discovered submerged mud volcano in the Polar North Atlantic, differing from the numerous methane seepages previously identified in the region. Here we show in situ observations from a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), capturing the release of warm (11.5 °C) Neogene sediments and methane-rich fluids from a gryphon at Borealis. The surrounding seafloor within the mud volcano ...