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Jan Even Øie Nilsen
Research Scientist
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
Bergen, Norway
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Research
Current Interests
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Issues: |
- Sea level rise
- Nordic Seas ocean circulation, exchanges, and overturning
- Atmospheric circulation impacts on the Nordic Seas ocean climate
- Water mass modification processes
- The role of wind for North Atlantic-Nordic Seas volume exchanges
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Brine ejection, deep convection, slope currents, and circulation are
processes of importance for the Arctic climate and therfore the focus of the
ProClim project.
My work lies within ProClim work package 4 whose main task is to synthesize
and quantify the observed and modelled interannual variability of dense
water production modes in the Nordic Seas and Arctic.
Among other related interests is the role of large scale atmospheric
circulation (wind) for the oceanic circulation, in particular the
exchanges between the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas. This work is
initiated within the RegClim project.
(Fact-sheet)
This work concerned the processes of Atlantic Inflow and the Norwegian
Atlantic Current in the Norwegian Sea, forcing and water mass
modifications. (graduated 2003)
(Thesis material)
The aim of this study was to resolve the mechanism of damping of
surface waves above bottom vegetation, and investigate the importance
of the commercial kelp-harvesting on the wave damping.
For economic reasons, the current activity is nil.
(graduated 1997)
Handouts and Fact sheets
- The Extent of the Norwegian Atlantic Current is very stable
(Scientific highlight in BCCR annual report for 2007)
- Ventilation, Pathways, and Overflows of the Nordic Seas
(poster at Rapid Climate Change, International Science Conference, Birmingham, U.K., 24-27 October 2006, and updated version at Polar Dynamcis meeting in Bergen, August 2007)
- The Role of Wind for North Atlantic-Nordic Seas Exchanges
(fact sheet)
- Variations of Mixed Layer Properties in the Norwegian Sea 1948-1999
(poster at Bjerknes Centenary, Bergen, 1-3 September 2004)
- Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Variability and its Impacts on the Nordic Seas Ocean Climate
(poster at 1st International CLIVAR Science Conference, Baltimore, US, 21-25 June 2004)
- Detecting Frontal Structures in Oceanic Station Time Series
(poster at EGU Gen. Assembly, Nice, 2004)
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