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Simulation of heavy metal leaching from cement-stabilized polluted sediments : geochemical modelling
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
A lot of concern has been raised by individuals and organizations regarding the menace associated with heavy metal contamination of marine sediments in Norway. This has necessitated the remediation of heavy metal contaminated ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Forskning over de siste ti årene har etablert at dagens bakgrunnskonsentrasjon av bakkenær ozon er høy nok til å ha skadelig effekt på vegetasjon. Disse effektene inkluderer reduksjon i biomasseproduksjon, trevekst og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Drought is a natural feature of the climate usually associated with dry and warm weather over an extended period of time causing less than normal water available at the land surface. The development of a drought is a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
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This study describes the contribution of anthropogenic factors for groundwater pollution in the urban environment of developing countries. Dire Dawa is one of the oldest urbanized and densely populated city in ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
This paper studies the optimum signal choice for the estimation of the aortic blood pressure via aorta radius, using a monostatic radar configuration. The method involves developing the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) for a ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Graphics Processing Units are immensely powerful processors and for variety applications they outperform the Central Processing Unit, CPU. The recent generations of GPU’s have a flexible architecture than older generations ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Impact cratering is a fundamental process in the Solar System, and on solid planetary bodies like Mars and the Moon, impact cratering may be the most prominent landforming process. On the Earth several processes compete ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The aim of this study was to assess the temporal development of the environment in Bunnefjord, the innermost part of Oslofjord (SE Norway), define its reference conditions, and link the results to other studies. A 55 cm ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
In boundary layer modelling, the Monin-Obukhov theory is widely used
to parmeterize the wind profiles and the momentum fluxes. During the
IPY-THORPEX campaign at Andøya at 3. March 2008, a flight was made
across an arctic ...
Paleogene micropaleontology and biostratigraphy in well 16/1-8, Norwegian North Sea Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Micropaleontological analysis was made in 50 Paleogene ditch cutting samples of hydrocarbon exploration well 16/1-8, Norwegian North Sea. The samples and physical log information were provided by Lundin Norway AS. Over 100 ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This thesis provides an assessment of the application of terrestrial LiDAR for rock mass characterisation and support design in drill and blast tunnels. The study includes establishing an appropriate work-flow for data ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Tre klynger med lamprofyriske gangar er prøvetatt og ein har anteke at desse har same alder. Etter analyse har gangane blitt klassifisert som kalk-alkaline lamprofyrar, alkaline lamprofyrar og ultramafiske lamprofyrar. Dei ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
I denne oppgaven undersøker vi variasjoner i temperatur og tetthet i litosfæren i Sør Norge og diskuterer de mulige tektoniske betydningene av disse.
I den første delen videreutvikles en metode som beregner temperatur og ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
We consider the relative importance of wind and currents in the determination of optimal routes, commonly referred to as weather routing, for sailboats. Weather routing for sailboats is the process of finding the fastest ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
In a 3D marine survey, often large areas of poor coverage (‘coverage holes’) exist caused by feathering during the actual acquisition. Infill management is introduced to fill those ‘coverage holes’, but a high percentage ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Most maps and publications dealing with the geology of the Bodø-Sulitjelma area have postulated the presence of a major basement culmination; the “Heggmovatn basement dome” between Bodø and Fauske. Granitic gneisses and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
A succession of crater infill sediments is preserved within the Ritland impact structure. Ritland is good example of a small depositional basin where a range of processes from debris flows to turbiditic currents and finally ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
During the last decades, the Norwegian method of tunneling has been reviewed and continuously updated with the latest information and research results available. Despite the effort of making the practice of tunnel construction ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Forecasting severe weather events is of great importance, especially since it can have impact on life and society. Even though numerical weather prediction (NWP) models have had great improvements in the last decade, some ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Seven experiments are conducted on a coupled ice-ocean model in order to gain insight in the sensitivity of the modeled Arctic sea-ice extent and thickness to crucial changes in the parametrization of the models albedo ...
Relasjoner mellom optimale pådriv for endret hyppighet av COWL Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Forcing perturbations, which are optimal in producing atmospheric respons
patterns resembling the Cold-Ocean-Warm-Land (COWL) flow regime over
4 days, have been calculated with the atmospheric Integrated Forecast ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Long, non-dispersive coastal wind-generated internal waves in the Hardangerfjord is investigated based on hydrographic data at the coast and current and temperature measurements in the fjord. The aim of the present work ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
High resolution forecast models have the potential to produce more detailed forecasts of, for example precipitation, than comparable models with a coarser resolution. This is because high resolution forecast models, amongst ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The growth of the international ship trade has raised the great concern about the impact of the ship emitted pollutants to the clouds and climate, air quality est. Apart from emitting large extents of sulphur dioxide which ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Based on linear shallow water theory for a uniformly rotating, homogeneous ocean, the properties of freely propagating shelf waves are investigated, applying the rigid lid approximation.
Applied to the Norwegian shelf, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
This study examines the diagenesis and reservoir quality of Triassic sandstones in the Central Graben, Norwegian sector. Cored reservoir intervals from four wells (6/3-1, 7/8-4, 7/11-8, 7/11-9) have been examined by ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
A total of 21 core samples from well 2/7-26S of the Embla Field and One reference sample from Oseberg have been geochemically studied. In the studied well the Embla Field consists of two main reservoir units, the Upper and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The main scientific goal with this thesis is to study the configuration of the main Caledonian geological structures within the Lower Silurian succession, with emphasis on back-thrusts at Sundvollen, Ringerike in southern ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Denne oppgaven har som formål å framheve anomalier som kan indikere begravde arkeologiske objekter. For å gjøre dette har flybårne hyperspektrale data blitt analysert. Testområdet var et område i Odberg i Lågendalen hvor ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
I denne oppgaven er det gjort interferometriske tidsserieanalyser ved hjelp av permanent spreder-teknikken (PS-teknikken) for Flåm/Aurland og Nord-Island. Denne teknikken benytter seg av SAR-data (Synthetic Aperture Radar) ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
I Dovrefjellregionen, Sør-Norge, er det gjort permafrostundersøkelser knyttet til iskjernemorener og steinbreer. På Dovrefjell er det alpin permafrost fra ca 1450-1550 m.o.h., og alle lokalitetene som er undersøkt ligger ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
Tunsbergdalen er en glasialt erodert dal i indre del av Sogn og Fjordane. Innerst i Tunsbergdalen ligger fastlands-Norges og -Europas lengste utløpsbre, Tunsbergdalsbreen. Denne drenerer deler av platåbreen Jostedalsbreen. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The cornice development, accretion, cracking and eventual failure of cornices along the ridgeline of the Gruvefjellet plateau mountain and their controlling meteorological factors was studied in the two consecutive snow ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2010)
The climatic influence on a large cold/polythermal Arctic ice cap with substantial surface melt was investigated by calculating the surface energy balance (SEB)and subsurface properties. This method was applied on Austfonna ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
This thesis uses ground-based, airborne and spaceborne elevation measurements to estimate elevation change and mass balance of glaciers and ice caps on the Svalbard archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. Remote sensing data ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
This thesis is concerned with the evaluation and development of models related to the emissions and dispersion of traffic induced road dust. Road traffic is a highly important source of a range of pollutants having adverse ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2010)
Throughout the history, episodes of excessive volcanism, known as Large Igneous Provinces (LIP), have been emplaced into sedimentary basins. The heat transfer from these volcanic intrusions have important implications for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Diamonds are formed under high pressure more than 150 kilometres deep in the Earth’s mantle and are brought to the surface mainly by volcanic rocks called kimberlites. Several thousand kimberlites have been mapped on various ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
To evaluate the sensitivity of mountain permafrost to atmospheric forcing, the dominant meteorological variables such as temperature, precipitation and timing and duration of snow cover have to be considered. Simulations ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Modern acquisition of seismic data on receiver networks worldwide produces an increasing amount of continuous wavefield recordings. In addition to manual data inspection, seismogram interpretation requires therefore new ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
Earth's orientation relative to its spin axis is determined by its nonhydrostatic inertia tensor. We show here that the present‐day nonhydrostatic inertia tensor can be modeled by combining contributions due to large low ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2010)
We have developed an improved model of global digital palaeo-plate boundaries and plate motion to describe the distribution and history of plates since the Late Jurassic. From this history we computed net lithospheric ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2010)
The relation between gravity anomalies, topography and volcanism can yield important insights about the internal dynamics of planets. From the power spectra of gravity and topography on Earth, Venus and Mars we infer that ...