Stengte veger på grunn av snøskred eller fare for snøskred utgjør ca. 55% av all registrert vegstengning langs norske veger. En økende sammenknytning av landsdelene stiller stadig større krav til framkommelighet og fleksibilitet. Tidligere har det vært opp til hvert enkelt vegprosjekt å bestemme en akseptabel risiko for skredhendelser på veg. Statens Vegvesen ønsker å utvikle en modell for risikoaksept ...

Denne mastergradsoppgaven ser på muligheten for å kombinere et horisontalt geotermisk system med et eksisterende biobrenselanlegg for dannelse av et hybrid energisystem ved Finnlandsmyran i Brøstadbotn. Det horisontale systemet kan tilknyttes fjernvarmekretsen til biobrenselanlegget ved bruk av varmepumpeteknologi. Dermed kan energien som er lagret i myren benyttes til å øke temperaturen på vannet ...

The use of long-range memory models as a description of the noise in Earth surface temperatures has increased the recent years, and as a measure of the persistence for such time series we have the Hurst exponent. It is known that sea surface temperatures are more persistent than land temperatures, and that global temperatures are more persistent than local temperatures. We also know that the persistence ...

Da Det Norske Institutt for Kosmisk Fysikk ble del av Universitetet i Tromsø, opphørte Nordlysobservatoriet å eksistere som en formell enhet. Det som i dag omfattes av Nordlysobservatoriet, er dels en fortsettelse av den opprinnelige observasjonsvirksomheten til det gamle Nordlysobservatoriet - men også nye aktiviteter har kommet til - særlig innen feltene plasmafysikk og radiogeofysikk. I det ...

ABSTRACT Absorption of water in concrete is often described by the simple linear water uptake vs. square-root-of-time law. However, a deviation from this behaviour is frequently seen depending on factors such as initial water content, water/binder ratio and specimen thickness. The deviation increases with thickness (typically from 25 to 100 mm) and is seen even for very dry specimens with ...

The theoretical description of complex (dusty) plasmas requires multiscale concepts that adequately incorporate the correlated interplay of streaming electrons and ions, neutrals and dust grains. Knowing the effective dust–dust interaction, the multiscale problem can be effectively reduced to a one-component plasma model of the dust subsystem. The goal of this paper is a systematic evaluation of the ...

We provide a novel interpretation of the dual of support vector machines (SVMs) in terms of scatter with respect to class prototypes and their mean. As a key contribution, we extend this framework to multiple classes, providing a new joint Scatter SVM algorithm, at the level of its binary counterpart in the number of optimization variables. This enables us to implement computationally efficient ...

Anomalously large radial transport levels in fusion devices is commonly believed to be the cause of small-scale edge localized electrostatic drift wave turbulence. We review the basic drift wave instability mechanism and show how poloidally elongated structures can self-consistently emerge from the small-scale turbulent motions through envelope modulation governed by the cubic nonlinear ...

The storm index SYM-H, the solar wind velocity v, and interplanetary magnetic field Bz show no signatures of low-dimensional dynamics in quiet periods, but tests for determinism in the time series indicate that SYM-H exhibits a significant low-dimensional component during storm time, suggesting that self-organization takes place during magnetic storms. Even though our analysis yields no discernible ...