21 Nov 2019 – The Nansen Legacy

As the polar night lowers over the Arctic, RV Kronprins Haakon is leaving the quay in Longyearbyen, heading towards the Arctic Ocean. For the next two weeks, the researchers and technicians on board will retrieve old and deploy new scientific measuring equipment in the sea area around Svalbard.

Recent publications

Dupont,N., Durant, J. M., Langangen, Ø., Gjøsæter, H., Stige, L. C. (2020). Sea ice, temperature, and prey effects on annual variations in mean lengths of a key Arctic fish, Boreogadus saida, in the Barents Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science

Thingstad, T. F. (2020). How trophic cascades and photic zone nutrient content interact to generate basin-scale differences in the microbial food web. ICES Journal of Marine Science

Koenig, Z., Fer, I., Kolås, E., Fossum, T. O., Norgren, P., Ludvigsen,M. (2020). Observations of turbulence at a near‐surface temperature front in the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2019JC015526.

Siew, P. Y. F., Li, C., Sobolowski, S. P., Kin, M. P. (2020). Intermittency of Arctic–mid-latitude teleconnections-stratospheric pathway between autumn sea ice and the winter North Atlantic Oscillation. Weather and Climate Dynamics, 1: 261–275. doi.org/10.5194/wcd-1-261-2020

Skagseth, Ø., Eldevik, T., Årthun, M., Asbjørnsen, H., Lien, V. S., Smedsrud, L. H. (2020). Reduced efficiency of the Barents Sea cooling machine. Nature Climate Change. doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0772-6

Older publications

All articles filed in November 21, 2019

Rig-work in the dark