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    • Wind power forecasting as input to day-ahead trading strategies for wind in complex terrain 

      Svane, Julie Therese (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-06-01)
      Giving the increasing penetration of intermittent wind power in the liberalized electricity market, wind power forecasting (WPF) is a topic of growing importance [Kariniotakis, 2017]. The number of papers on the field WPF evaluating the statistical performance has increased rapidly, while only a proportion of the former studies focus on the economic benefit of WPF. In this study we have answered how ...
    • Profitability of green hydrogen production and feasibility of waste heat integration to DHS in the Ísafjörður’s energy system: A techno-economic analysis 

      Víðisdóttir, Elena Dís (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-31)
      Hydrogen production by electrolysis using renewable energy sources is essential for hydrogen to be able to contribute to the green energy transition. Producing the hydrogen on the site of use minimizes the transportation costs and footprint, and utilization of all by-products increases the electric efficiency of hydrogen production. During hydrogen production by electrolysis the chief part of energy ...
    • Polar Mesospheric Winter Echoes - an analysis of selected cases 

      Ettestad, Kristine (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-31)
      Polar Mesospheric Winter Echoes (PMWE) are strong coherent radar echoes, from the upper mesosphere at 55-85 km that are observed typically from end of August until beginning of May. Some models to explain PMWE formation suggest that they form because of turbulence in the atmosphere. Other models suggest that the PMWEs form like summer polar mesospheric echoes (PMSE) where charged dust particles ...
    • Frequency Dependence of Ionospheric Electron Heating Around the Third Double Resonance 

      Frøystein, Ingeborg (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-31)
      The partly ionized ionosphere responds differently to high power, high frequency radio waves based on the wave frequency, the wave power, the wave polarization, and the propagation angle relative to the magnetic field. Ionospheric modification experiments are conducted to investigate the responses and their dependencies, setting experimental constraints on the contributions from non-resonant collisional ...
    • Disambiguation of range-Doppler radar measurements 

      Alvsaker, Andrea Marie (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-31)
      Observing the Moon by a monostatic synthetic-aperture radar system has the inherent problem that any given combination of range and Doppler shift in a measurement will map to two different regions on the lunar surface. This ambiguity has previously been avoided using an interferometric radar configuration or selective illumination. The objective of this thesis was to write and validate a method for ...
    • Design and implementation of an oblique ionosonde receiver. For studies of spatial and temporal ionospheric structures 

      Floberg, Jens (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-27)
      The study of the ionosphere has been of central interest since its discovery in the early 20th century. In later decades there has been an increasing appreciation and need for understanding the spatial and temporal structure of the ionosphere and how the structure is affected by various processes in the atmosphere. An important process in this context is that of atmospheric gravity waves ...
    • First observation of the anomalous electric field in the topside ionosphere by ionospheric modification over EISCAT 

      Kosch, Michael; Vickers, Hannah; Ogawa, Yasunobu; Senior, Andrew; Blagoveshchenskaya, Natalya (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-10-24)
      We have developed an active ground-based technique to estimate the steady state field-aligned anomalous electric field (E*) in the topside ionosphere, up to ~600 km, using the European Incoherent Scatter (EISCAT) ionospheric modification facility and UHF incoherent scatter radar. When pumping the ionosphere with high-power high-frequency radio waves, the F region electron temperature is significantly ...
    • First modulation of high-frequency polar mesospheric summer echoes by radio heating of the ionosphere 

      Senior, Andrew; Mahmoudian, Alireza; Pinedo Nava, Henry; La Hoz, Cesar; Rietveld, Michael T; Scales, Wayne A.; Kosch, M.J. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-07-23)
      The first high-frequency (HF, 8 MHz) observations of the modulation of polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSE) by artificial radio heating of the ionosphere are presented and compared to observations at 224 MHz and model predictions. The experiments were performed at the European Incoherent Scatter facility in northern Norway. It is shown that model results are in qualitative and partial quantitative ...
    • Increasing Multiyear Sea Ice Loss in the Beaufort Sea: A New Export Pathway for the Diminishing Multiyear Ice Cover of the Arctic Ocean 

      Babb, David G; Galley, Ryan; Howell, Stephen; Landy, Jack Christopher; Barber, David G. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-16)
      Historically, multiyear sea ice (MYI) covered a majority of the Arctic and circulated through the Beaufort Gyre for years. However, increased ice melt in the Beaufort Sea during the early 2000s was proposed to have severed this circulation. Constructing a regional MYI budget from 1997 to 2021 reveals that MYI import into the Beaufort Sea has increased year-round, yet less MYI now survives through ...
    • Segmentation of PMSE data using random forests 

      Jozwicki, Dorota; Sharma, Puneet; Mann, Ingrid; Hoppe, Ulf-Peter Jürgen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-22)
      EISCAT VHF radar data are used for observing, monitoring, and understanding Earth’s upper atmosphere. This paper presents an approach to segment Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes (PMSE) from datasets obtained from EISCAT VHF radar data. The data consist of 30 observations days, corresponding to 56,250 data samples. We manually labeled the data into three different categories: PMSE, Ionospheric ...
    • Trans-polar drift-pathways of riverine European microplastic 

      Huserbråten, Mats Brockstedt Olsen; Hattermann, Tore; Broms, Cecilie; Albretsen, Jon (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-17)
      High concentrations of microplastic particles are reported across the Arctic Ocean–yet no meaningful point sources, suspension timelines, or accumulation areas have been identified. Here we use Lagrangian particle advection simulations to model the transport of buoyant microplastic from northern European rivers to the high Arctic, and compare model results to the flux of sampled synthetic particles ...
    • Stochastic Modelling and Numerical Simulations of Radial Filament Motion and Average Profiles at the Boundary of Fusion Plasmas 

      Paikina, Olga (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-15)
      <p>The boundary region of magnetically confined plasmas is well known to have inherently fluctuating parameters. Advances in experimental measurements and numerical computations have revealed that the fluctuation-driven transport of particles and heat across the magnetic field lines is mainly dominated by the radial motion of blob-like filament structures. These structures, which are localized in ...
    • Numerical Simulations of Turbulence at the Boundary of Fusion Plasma 

      Jäntti, Henrik (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-15)
      Numerical simulations of reduced fluid models describing magnetized plasmas have previously been used to study the boundary of fusion plasmas extensively. A common approximation applied to these models is the so-called Boussinesq approximation. One of the requirements for the Boussinesq approximation to be applicable is that the background particle density is significantly higher than the fluctuations ...
    • Quantitative assessment of two oil-in-ice surface drift algorithms 

      Martins de Aguiar, Victor Cesar; Dagestad, Knut-Frode; Hole, Lars Robert; Barthel, Knut Sven (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-04)
      The ongoing reduction in extent and thickness of sea ice in the Arctic might result in an increase of oil spill risk due to the expansion of shipping activity and oil exploration shift towards higher latitudes. This work assessed the response of two oil-in-ice surface drift models implemented in an open-source Lagrangian framework. By considering two numerical modeling experiments, our main finding ...
    • Climatic variations and sediment provenance during the last 16 000 years in the North Hinlopen Trough, Svalbard 

      Samuelsen, Kristine Reppen (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-06-02)
      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 ...
    • Impacts of a sudden stratospheric warming on the mesospheric metal layers 

      Feng, Wuhu; Kaifler, Bernd; Marsh, Daniel R.; Höffner, Josef; Hoppe, Ulf-Peter; Williams, Bifford P.; Plane, John M.C. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-02-11)
      We report measurements of atomic sodium, iron and temperature in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) made by ground-based lidars at the ALOMAR observatory (69°N, 16°E) during a major sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event that occurred in January 2009. The high resolution temporal observations allow the responses of the Na and Fe layers to the SSW at high northern latitudes to be ...
    • A nested high-resolution unstructured grid 3-D ocean-sea ice-ice shelf setup for numerical investigations of the Petermann ice shelf and fjord 

      Prakash, Abhay; Zhou, Qin; Hattermann, Tore; Bao, Weiyang; Graversen, Rune Grand; Kirchner, Nina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-18)
      Three-dimensional numerical simulation of circulation in fjords hosting marine-terminating ice shelves is challenging because of the complexity of processes involved in such environments. This often requires a comprehensive model setup. The following elements are needed: bathymetry (usually unknown beneath the glacier tongue), ice shelf draft (impacting water column thickness), oceanographic state ...
    • Multiplexed Mach-Zehnder interferometer assisted ring resonator sensor 

      Yadav, Mukesh; Aksnes, Astrid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-04)
      A Mach-Zehnder interferometer assisted ring resonator configuration (MARC)-based multiplexed photonic sensor with a large measurement range is experimentally demonstrated. The presented MARC sensor consists of a balanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a ring resonator acting as a sensing component. It produces transmission responses with unique spectral signatures, which depend on the physical ...
    • A Study of Polarimetric Parameters Used for Sea Ice Classification 

      Kinderås, Ida G. (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-12-15)
      The Arctic region of the Earth are largely covered by sea ice, which is important for the marine ecosystems locally in the region, but it also has an impact on the climate systems. Recent climate changes means that the sea ice is melting and the coverage is shrinking which can have a global impact. Monitoring these sea ice changes are important to get an understanding of this impact. There are ...
    • Application of quantitative phase microscopy in microbiology for label-free imaging of bacteria 

      Abrar, Attiqa (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-03-15)
      Bacteria are the planet’s oldest and the most common life forms. Bacteria have developed alongside humans and are good and harmful to our health. Our bodies contain nearly ten times the number of bacteria as human cells, and this natural microbiota is critical for appropriate development, nutrition, and disease resistance. Unfortunately, we live in an environment rich with bacteria that may cause ...