Abstract The Norwegian continental shelf is located between 62°N and 69°30 N. It became an area of massive sedimentary outbuilding during the late Cenozoic time when large amounts of glacial sediments were transported ...

Rifting of the Paleozoic Gondwana supercontinent during Mesozoic time ended eventually with the breakup of Africa and South America, leading to passive margin formation and to the creation of the South Atlantic Ocean (e.g. ...

Clouds cover about 70% of the earth. In 1983 the world first satellite program, called International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), was established. ISCCP use geostationary and polar orbiting satellites to ...

1 Abstract A control run of 150 years for CCSM2 has been performed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. In this run the external forcing(especially radiation) were held constant, CO2 were held at the level of 1990. ...

Abstract On a sunny, cloudless day we often recognize condensation trails (contrails) behind jet aircrafts as narrow, white stripes. Contrails form as a mixture of warm, humid exhaust gases and colder, drier air exceeds ...

Glaciers and ice masses are very important components of the earth system both in terms of global water storage and as climate indicators. The amount of water tied up in glaciers and ice caps is equivalent to about 69 ...

TBT has been widely used for decades as the dominant composition of antifouling paints. The toxicity of TBT on aquatic life is very serious and many studies have shown that TBT can be lethal to aquatic organisms at quite ...

Abstract This study uses multispectral Landsat satellite imagery and a high resolution Digital Elevation Model based on 1990/95 aerial stereoimagery (Norwegian Polar Institute) to map moraines and glacier terminus positions ...

I denne oppgaven ble kalibrerings funksjonene i Photomodeler og Nlhbunt vurdert for bruk innenfor nærfotogrammetriske formål på Universitetet i Oslo. Universitetet i Oslo disponerer et digitalt Canon kamera og et analogt ...