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Peer-review publications
Bengtsson, L., V.A. Semenov and O.M. Johannessen (2004) The early twentieth-century warming in the Arctic – a possible mechanism, Journal of Climate, 17(20), pp. 4045-4057
Bethke, I., T. Furevik and H. Drange (2006) Towards a more saline North Atlantic and a fresher Arctic under global warming, Geophysical Research Letters, 33(L21712), doi:10.1029/2006GL027264
Byrkjedal, Ø., N.G. Kvamstø, M. Meland and E. Jansen (2006) Sensitivity of last glacial maximum climate to sea ice conditions in the Nordic Seas, Climate Dynamics, 26(5), pp. 473-487
Carmack, E.C. and P. Wassmann (2006) Food webs and physical-biological coupling on pan-Arctic shelves: Unifying concepts and comprehensive perspectives, Progress in Oceanography, 71, pp. 446-477
Drinkwater, K.F. (2006) The regime shift of the 1920s and 1930s in the North Atlantic, Progress in Oceanography, 68, pp. 134-151
Esau, I. (2004) An improved parameterization of turbulent exchange coefficients accounting for the non-local effect of large eddies, Annales Geophysicae, 22, pp. 3353-3362
Esau, I. (2006) Amplification of turbulent exchange over wide Arctic leads: Large-eddy simulation study, Journal of Geophysical Research, in print
Esau, I. and S.S. Zilitinkevich (2006) Universal dependences between turbulent and mean flow parameters in stably and neutrally stratified planetary boundary layers. Non-linear Processes in Geophysics, 13, pp. 135-144
Johannessen, O.M, L. Bengtsson, M.W. Miles, S.I. Kuzmina, V.A. Semenov, G.V. Alekseev, A.P. Nagurnyi, V.F. Zakharov, L.P. Bobylev, L.H. Pettersson, K. Hasselmann and H.P. Cattle (2004) Arctic climate change: observed and modelled temperature and sea ice variability, Tellus, 56A, pp. 328-341
Johannessen, O.M., K. Khvorostovsky, M.W. Miles and L.P. Bobylev (2005) Recent ice-sheet growth in the interior of Greenland, Science, 310, pp. 1013-1016
Kahnert, M. and A. Kylling (2004) Radiance and flux simulations for mineral dust aerosols: Assessing the error due to using spherical or spheroidal model particles, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109(D09203), doi:10.1029/2003JD004318
Kahnert, M. (2005) Irreducible representations of finite groups in the T-matrix formulation of electromagnetic scattering problem, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 22(6), pp. 1187-1199
Kahnert, M., T. Nousiainen and B. Veihelmann (2005) Spherical and spheroidal model particles as an error source in aerosol climate forcing and radiance computations: A case study for feldspar aerosols, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110(D18), doi:10.1029/2004JD005558
Kuzmina, S.I., L. Bengtsson, O.M. Johannessen, H. Drange, L.P. Bobylev and M.W. Miles (2005) The North Atlantic Oscillation and greenhouse-gas forcing, Geophysical Research Letters, 32(L04703), doi:10.1029/2004GL021064
Moros, M., J.T. Andrews, D.D. Eberl and E. Jansen (2006) Holocene history of drift ice in the northern North Atlantic: Evidence for different spatial and temposal modes, Paleoceanography, 21(PA2017), doi:10.1029/2005PA001214
Pedersen, C.A. and J.-G. Winther (2005) Intercomparison and validation of snow albedo parameterization schemes in climate models, Climate Dynamics, 25, pp. 351-362
Reigstad, M. and C. Svensen (2003) Små prosesser med stor betydning: karbonets vei gjennom det marine økosystemet, Naturen, 5, pp. 194-201
Reigstad, M. and P. Wassmann (2006) Does Phaeocystis spp. contribute significantly to vertical export of organic carbon, Biogeochemistry, accepted
Sorteberg, A., T. Furevik, H. Drange and N.G. Kvamstø (2005) Effects of simulated natural variability on Arctic temperature projections, Geophysical Research Letters, 32(L18708), doi:10.1029/2005GL023404
Slubowska, M.A., N. Koç, T.L. Rasmussen and D. Klitgaard-Kristensen (2005) Changes in the flow of Atlantic water into the Arctic Ocean since the last deglaciation: Evidence from the northern Svalbard continental margin, 80oN, Paleoceanography, 20(PA4014), doi:10.1029/2005PA001141
Wassmann, P. (2006) Structure and function of contemporary food webs on Arctic shelves: An introduction, Progress in Oceanography, 71, pp. 128-128
Wassmann, P., M. Reigstad, T. Haug, B. Rudels, G. Wing-Gabrielsen, M. Carroll, H. Hop, S. Falk-Petersen, D. Slagstad, S.G. Denisenko, E. Arashkevich and O. Pavlova (2006) Food web and carbon flux in the Barents Sea, Progress in Oceanography, 71, pp. 232-287
Wassmann, P., D. Slagstad, C. Wexels Riser and M. Reigstad (2006) Modelling the ecosystem dynamics of the marginal ice zone and central Barents Sea. II. Carbon flux and climate variability, Journal of Marine Systems, 59, pp. 1-24
Zilitinkevich, S.S. and I. Esau (2005) Resistance and heat transfer laws for stable and neutral planetary boundary layers, Quarterly J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 131, pp. 1863-1892, doi: 10.1256/qj.04.143
Zilitinkevich, S.S., I. Esau and A. Baklanov (2005) Atmospheric boundary layers in storms: advanced theory and modeling applications, Advances in Geosciences (the special issue “Proceedings of 6th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean storms”), 2(47), pp. 47-49
Zilitinkevich, S.S., J.C.R. Hunt, I.N. Esau, A. A. Grachev, D.P. Lalas, E. Akylas, M. Tombrou, C.W. Fairall, H.J.S. Fernando, A.A. Baklanov and S.M. Joffre (2006) The influence of large convective eddies on the surface-layer turbulence, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 132, pp. 1423-1456
Zilitinkevich, S.S., I. Esau and A. Baklanov (2007) Further comments on the equilibrium height of neutral and stable planetary boundary layers, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, in print
Zilitinkevich, S.S. and I. Esau (2007) Similarity theory and calculation of turbulent fluxes at the surface for the stably stratified atmospheric boundary layers, Boundary Layer Meteorology, in print

Manuscripts in preparation
Byrkjedal, Ø., I. Esau and N.G. Kvamstø (2006) Sensitivity of simulated wintertime Arctic atmosphere to vertical resolution in the ARPEGE/IFS model, submitted to Climate Dynamics
Esau, I. and Ø. Byrkjedal (2006) Application of large eddy simulation database to optimization of first order closures for neutral and stably stratified boundary layers, submitted to Boundary Layer Meteorology
Johannessen, O.M., M.W. Miles and C. Myrmehl (2007) Critical vulnerabilities of marine and sea ice based ecosystems in the high Arctic, in Dangerous Climate Change
Johannessen, O.M., C. Myrmehl, M.W. Miles and I. Bethke (2007) Decreasing Arctic sea ice caused by CO2 atmospheric forcing, to be submitted
Kuzmina, S.I., O.M. Johannessen, L. Bengtsson, L.P. Bobylev and M.W. Miles (2007) High northern latitude surface air temperature data: Part I. Comparison of the existing gridded datasets, submitted to Tellus
Kuzmina, S.I., O.M. Johannessen, L. Bengtsson and O. Aniskina (2007) High northern latitude surface air temperature data: Part II. Creation of a new dataset 1900-2000, submitted to Tellus
Ma, S., N.G. Kvamstø, Y. Song and A. Sorteberg (2006) The potential contribution to autumn Eurasian snow cover to wintertime NAO
Ma, S., N.G. Kvamstø, Y. Song and A. Sorteberg (2006) The influence of snow conditions on wintertime extratropical atmospheric variability; a study based on numerical simulations
Mauritsen, T., G. Svensson, S.S. Zilitinkevich, I. Esau, L. Enger and B. Grisogono (2006) A total turbulent energy closure model for neutral and stably stratified atmospheric boundary layers, to be submitted to Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
Orsolini, Y., N.G. Kvamstø and A. Sorteberg (2006) Northern hemisphere late-winter variability in a 20-year ensemble general circulation model experiment with forced snow cover derived from satellite observations, to be submitted
Orsolini, Y. and A. Sorteberg (2006) Changes in northern hemisphere summer storm tracks under increasing GHGs, to be submitted
Svendby, T.M., C.L. Myhre, M. Kahnert and G. Myhre (2007) Optical properties of ice crystals in high-latitude cirrus, to be submitted
Wilson, L.J., M. Hald and F. Godtliebsen (2007) Faunal evidence of 20th century Arctic warming. to be submitted to Geology
Wilson, L.J., M. Hald and S. Korsun (2007) Review of benthic foraminiferal transfer functions in the Barents Sea

Reports
Stiansen, J.E., B. Bogstad, P. Budgell, P. Dalpadado, H. Gjøsæter, H. Hiis Hauge, R. Ingvaldsen, H. Loeng, M. Maurtizen, S. Mehl, G. Ottersen, M. Skogen and E. K. Stenevik (2005) Status report on the Barents Sea ecosystem, 2004-2005, Fisken og Havet, 3, 46 pages
Stiansen, J.E., A. Aglen, B. Bogstad, P. Budgell, P. Dalpadado, A.V. Dolgov, A. Dommasnes, A.A. Filin, H. Gjøsæter, K.H. Hauge, Å. Høines, R. Ingvaldsen, E. Johannesen, L.L. Jørgensen, A.L. Karsakov, J. Klungsøyr, T. Knutsen, V. Lien, H. Loeng, S. Mehl, P.B. Mortensen, N.V. Muchina, V.N. Nesterova, E. Olsen, E.L. Orlovam V.K. Ozhigin, A.P. Pedchenko, E.K. Stenevik, M. Skogen, O.V. Titov, S. Tjelmeland, V.B. Zabavnikov, S.V. Ziryanov, N.G. Zhukova, N. Øien and S. Aanes (2006) Joint PINRO/IMR report on the state of the Barents Sea ecosystem 2005/2006, IMR/PINRO Joint Report Series, 119 pages

Conferences
Beare, R.J., M. MacVean, A.A.M. Holtslag, J. Cuxart, I. Esau, J.-C. Golaz, M. Jimenez, M.F. Khairoutdinov, B. Kosovic, D.C. Lewellen, T.S. Lund, J.K. Lundquist, A. McCabe, A. Moene, Y. Noh, S. Raasch and P.P. Sullivan (2004) An intercomparison of large-eddy simulations of the stable boundary layer, 16th AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Portland, Maine, USA, August
Esau, I. (2004) Large eddy simulation database for planetary boundary layer research, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Nice France, April
Esau, I. (2004) Non-dimensional governing parameters of turbulent planetary boundary layers, Bjerknes Centenary Conference, Bergen, Norway, September
Esau, I. (2005) Non-linear response of turbulent fluxes on openings in ice cover of the Arctic Ocean, CliC First International Science Conference, Beijing, China, April 11-15
Esau, I. (2005) Scales and aggregated effects of the most energetic turbulence eddies in planetary boundary layer, EGU General Assembly, EGU05-A-00323, Vienna, Austria, April 24-29
Esau, I. (2005) Surface atmospheric temperature as indicator of climate change in the Arctic, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, A33D-0935, San Fransisco, USA, December 5-9
Esau, I. and S.S. Zilitinkevich (2005) Parameter phase space of idealized shear-driven planetary boundary layer, EGU General Assembly, EGU05-A-00590, Vienna, Austria, April 24-29
Esau, I., S.S. Zilitinkevich (2005) Heat and mass transfer laws for turbulent convective flows in the atmosphere over leads in ice covered oceans, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, C32A-1123, San Francisco, USA, December 5-9
Esau, I. and S.S. Zilitinkevich (2006) Integral features of atmospheric stable boundary layers: theory and large-eddy simulation, NATO ARW, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 18-22
Fedorovich, E., R. Conzemius, I. Esau, F.K. Chow, D. Lewellen, C.-H. Moeng, D. Pino, P. Sullivan and J. Vila-Guerau de Arellano (2004) Entrainment into sheared convective boundary layers as predicted by different large eddy simulation codes, 16th AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Portland, Maine, USA, August
Hald, M., C. Andersson, H. Ebbesen, E. Jansen, D. Klitgaard-Kristensen, B. Risebrobakken, G.R. Salomonsen, M. Sarnthein, H.P. Sejrup and R. Telford (2005) Comparing planktonic foraminiferal climate records during the Holocene on the Norwegian-Svalbard continental margin, NORPAST-2 Annual Workshop, Loen, Nordfjord, Norway
Hald, M., C. Andersson, H. Ebbesen, E. Jansen, D. Klitgaard-Kristensen, B. Risebrobakken, G.R. Salomonsen, M. Sarnthein and R. Telford (2005) Comparing planktonic foraminiferal climate records during the Holocene on the Norwegian-Svalbard continental margin, European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria
Hald, M., H. Ebbesen and T.H. Lie-Andreassen (2005) Oceanic surface conditions on the West Spitzbergen continental margin during the last 15,000 years, INTIMATE Workshop, Iceland
Hald, M., G. Salomonsen and L.J. Wilson (2006) High resolution paleotemperatures for the last 2000 years from the northern Norwegian continental margin, European Geophysical Union, 18(04783), Vienna Austria.
Hald, M. and Koc, N. (2007) Warming in the Arctic: what can be learned from the past? Key-note lecture, The Norwegian Geological Winter Conference, Stavanger January
Johannessen, O.M. (2004) Polar climate – will the Arctic Ocean be blue in this century? EGU, Nice, France
Johannessen, O.M., M.W. Miles and C. Myrmehl (2004) Critical vulnerabilities of marine and sea ice based ecosystems in the high Arctic, in Dangerous Climate Change, Beijing, China
Johannessen, O.M. (2005) Climate changes – monitoring an energy-driven planet, IRGC, Beijing, China
Johannessen, O.M. (2006) Arctic science scene setter, IMAREST, London, UK
Murdmaa, I., E. Emelyanov, E. Ivanova, M. Levitan, N. Akhrimenkov, B. Risebrobakken (2006) Deglaciation of the last north European ice sheet: responses from marine sedimentary records, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall meet. Suppl., Abstract U33A-0021
Mauritsen, T., G. Svenson, S.S. Zilitinkevich, I. Esau, L. Enger and B. Grisogono (2006) Energy-similarity – a new turbulence closure model for stably stratified atmospheric boundary layers, 17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, San Diego, USA, June
Orsolini, Y., N.G. Kvamstø and I. Kindem (2005) The Aleutian-Icelandic seesaw in general circulation model simulations, Climate of the Arctic and its Role for Europe (CARE) workshop, Bremerhaven, October 12-14.
Orsolini, Y., N.G. Kvamstø and I. Kindem (2006) The Aleutian-Icelandic seesaw in general circulation model simulations, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April
Orsolini, Y., N.G. Kvamstø and I. Kindem (2006) The Aleutian-Icelandic seesaw in general circulation model simulations, European Meteorological Society Meeting, Ljubjana, Slovenia, September
Reigstad, M. (2003) Climate variability and implication for nutrient consumption, primary production and pelagic-benthic coupling in the Barents Sea, Arctic Alpine conference, Tromsø, Norway, oral presentation
Sharapova, A., Hald, M. and K. Husum (2003) Late glacial and Holocene vegetation and climate changes reflected by a pollen record from marine sediments in the fjord Malangen, North Norway, Norpast –2 conference, Selbusjøen, March 20-21
Svendby, T., C.L. Myhre and M. Kahnert (2006) Sensitivity studies of Arctic ice clouds, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 2-7, poster
Wassman, P. (2004) A pan-Arctic view of Arctic shelves; their role in thermohaline circulation; and potential links to climate and biology, SBE meeting, Cadiz, Spain, November 11
Wassmann, P. (2004) Carbon flux in the Barents Sea: upscaling a regional study, SBE meeting, Cadiz, Spain, November 11
Wassmann, P. (2005) Phytoplankton successions and climate variability: implication for mineralization and vertical export in polar oceans, Gordon Research Conference on Polar Oceanography, Ventura, USA, March 15
Wilson, L.J., M. Hald, S. Korsun, Ø. Nordli and G. Solomonsen (2005) Holocene sea ice variability in the Barents Sea, Geophysical Research Abstracts European Geophysical Union, 7, Vienna, Austria
Wilson, L.J., M. Hald, S. Korsun, Ø. Nordli, G. Salomonsen, M. Slubowska and T.J. Andersen (2005) Reconstructing patterns of Late Holocene climate variability from northern Norway and the Barents Sea, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting, San Francisco, USA
Wilson, L.J., M. Hald and F. Godtliebsen (2007) Faunal evidence of 20th century Arctic warming. Geophysical Research Abstracts, European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria
Yamskova, E., E. Ivanova, B. Risebrobakken (2006) New data on the stable isotopes and vertical distribution of benthic foraminifers in the western Barents Sea, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall meet. Suppl., Abstract U33A-0010
Zilitinkevich, S.S., J.C.R. Hunt, A.A. Grachev, I. Esau, D.P. Lalas, E. Akylas, M. Tombrou, C.W. Fairall and H.J.S. Fernando (2004) The influence of large convective eddies on the surface layer turbulence, European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Nice, France, April
Zilitinkevich, S.S. and I. Esau (2004) Resistance and heat transfer laws for stable and neutral boundary layers, turbulence and waves in stably stratified atmospheric shear flows: Measurements, high resolution simulations and numerical prediction challenges, London, UK, September
Zilitinkevich, S.S., A. Baklanov, I. Esau and A. Petrosyan (2004) Non-local features of the atmospheric long-lived stable boundary layers, European Meteorological Society, 4th Annual Meeting, Nice, France, September
Zilitinkevich, S.S., I. Esau and A. Baklanov (2004) Stably stratified turbulent boundary layers: the nature, the theory and possible applications to sediment transport problems, 4th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics (ISEN) and 14th Congress of the Asia and Pacific Division of the International Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR-APD), Hong-Kong, December 15-18
Zilitinkevich, S.S. and I. Esau (2005) Scaling analyses and heat/mass transfer laws for turbulent regimes over openings in the ice covered Arctic Ocean, First CliC International Science Conference, Beijing, China, April 11-15
Zilitinkevich, S.S. and I. Esau (2005) Heat and mass transfer laws for turbulent convective flows in the atmosphere over leads in ice covered oceans, 5th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS), Utrecht, Netherlands, September 12-16
Zilitinkevich, S.S., J.C.R. Hunt, A.A. Grachev, I.N. Esau, D.P. Lalas, E. Akylas, M. Tombrou, C.W. Fairall and H.J.S. Fernando (2005) Convective heat/mass transfer over complex terrain: advanced theory and its validation against experimental and LES data, EGU General Assembly, EGU05-A-01868, Vienna, Austria, April 24-29
Zilitinkevich, S.S., J.C.R. Hunt, A.A. Grachev, I.N. Esau, D.P. Lalas, E. Akylas, M. Tombrou, C.W. Fairall, H..J.S. Fernando, A. Baklanov and S.M. Joffre (2005) The effect of large eddies on the convective heat/mass transfer over complex terrain: Advanced theory and its validation against experimental and LES data, 28th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM), Zadar, Croatia, May 23-27
Zilitinkevich, S.S., T. Elperin, N. Kleorin, I. Rogachevskii, I. Esau and T. Mauritsen (2006) Turbulent energies and Richardson numbers in stably stratified shear flows, NATO ARW, Dubrovnik, Croatia, April 18-22

Public outreach
Drange, H. (2005) Klimaendringer, debattinnlegg i Bergens Tidende, February 25 (http://www.nersc.no/~annebrit/GCR/Images/bt_25jan2005_s23.pdf)
Drange, H. (2005) Varmt i vatnet, Klassekampen, December 4 (http://www.nersc.no/~annebrit/GCR/Images/klassekampen_3des_s24-25.pdf)
Hald, M. (2005) Lever vi i en istid? Geologiens dag, Tromsø, Norway, September 3
Hald, M., C. Andersson, H. Ebbesen, E. Jansen, D. Klitgaard-Kristensen, B. Risebrobakken, G.R. Salomonsen, H.P. Sejrup and R. Telford (2005) Havtemperaturer utenfor norskekysten de siste 12,000 år, Cicerone, 3, pp. 20-21
Johannessen, O.M. (2005) Varmere, våtere, villere, Aftenposten, February 23 (http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article976117.ece)
Johannessen, O.M. and C. Myrmehl (2005) Varmere, våtere, villere, kronikk i Bergens Tidende, March 21
Johannessen, O.M. (2007) Isen på Grønland har vokst, Nettavisen, March 3 (http://pub.tv2.no/nettavisen/ibergen/article919492.ece)
Koç, N. (2004) Forskningsdagene, Tromsø, Norway
Kvamstø, N.G. (2005) Ekstremvær i Norge og norske farvann, Lecture at Senioruniversitetet i Åsane, Bergen, Norway
Reigstad, M. (2006) Hav og is, Forskningsdagene, Tromsø, Norway
Sundby, S. (2006) Se torsken, se torsken …, NRK Hordaland, July 31 (http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/hordaland/1.785736)
Sundby, S. (2006) Sardinfiske i Nordsjøen? Adresseavisen, August 8 (http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/okonomi/article699420.ece)