Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- stars:team [2009-11-03 13:48:31]
steinare
+++ — (current)
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-====== STARS team at met.no ======
-  * Øyvind Sætra (project leader), o.satra(at)met.no
-Øyvind Saetra took his PhD on wind generation of waves and effects of surface films of wave
-formation at the University of Oslo in 1996. The work was motivated by the observation that surface
-films, such as this oil films on the ocean, removes the short capillary-gravity waves and inhibits wave
-growth by wind. He started to work as a scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in the
-autumn 1996. his main responsibility was the implementation of a third generation wave forecasting
-model (WAM) for operational use at the institute. Currently, Dr. Saetra is leading the wave forecasting
-group the Research Department, aiming at improvement and validating of the institutes operational
-wave forecasting system. From 1997 to 2000 he was project leader at the institute for the EO funded
-project EuroRose, where the goal was to implement a demonstrator for high resolution real-time
-monitoring of waves and currents at the sailing lane to Mongstad and Sture, Norways two main oil
-terminals. Here, real-time coastal radar observations were assimilated into an ocean model and every
-hour new short time forecasts of waves and currents were provided to the Vessel Traffic Service.
-During the period 1998-2000 Dr. Saetra was in charge of the work to develop a sea-ice model at the
-institute. This work was part of the Norwegian regional climate project RegClim. From 2001 to 2004
-he was on secondment to the Europen Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in
-Reading, England. At ECMWF, Dr. Saetra was working in the wave group. The main responsibility
-was to investigate and improve the use of ensemble forecasts for ocean waves and the use of ensemble
-forecasts of ship routing. During the stay at ECMWF he was also working on improved description of
-the air-sea momentum and energy transfer by coupling between atmosphere, waves and ocean currents.
-At the moment Dr. Saetra is leading two major projects at the institute on polar lows and Arctic
-extreme weather, IPY_THORPEX and ArcChange. Both projects are part of the International Polar
-Year.
-  * Steinar Eastwood, s.eastwood(at)met.no
-Steinar Eastwood took his Master of Science on remote sensing of precipitation from AVHRR data at
-the University of Oslo in 1996. Since 1997 he has been working as scientist in the Remote Sensing
-Section at Norwegian Meteorological Institute, and as senior scientist since 2001.
-Steinar Eastwood has been involved in different projects within remote sensing of surface variables,
-such as SST, sea ice and snow cover. During this work he has gained experience with different satellite
-systems, both passive and active instruments, applying both microwave and optical sensors. His main
-area of interest is at high latitudes and especially the Arctic. He is engaged both in the scientific and
-technical work at met.no, taking part in both the development of new methods and implementing new
-products for operational production.
-Steinar Eastwood started on the Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF) project for
-EUMETSAT in 1997, and is now project leader and software manager for the operational OSI SAF
-project at met.no. He has taken part in different EU project (such as EuroClim, MERSEA and
-MyOcean) and projects with ESA (such as Medspiration). He is also involved in the Group for High
-  * Jens Debernard, j.debernard(at)met.no
-Jens Debernard took his Ph.D. on the turbulent oceanic boundary layer beneath deformed sea ice at the
-University of Oslo in 2000. In 2001 he started as a senior scientist at met.no R&D Department where
-he now has a special focus on polar climate, regional climate modelling, and on the development and
-maintenance of sea ice models used for in climate and forecast applications. He has been the main
-developer behind the sea ice model used for coupled ice-ocean forecasts at met.no, and has also been
-responsible for coupling this model to several ocean circulation models. Also, he is the main developer
-behind the Oslo Regional Climate Model (ORCM). This model has been developed and used in several
-Norwegian- (RegClim) and EU-funded projects (GLIMPSE and IP-DAMOCLES). With a expert
-competence on physical and technical aspects of atmosphere-ice-ocean coupling, he is one out of three
-core members of the main development theme behind the new Norwegian Earth System Model called
-NorESM, with a special responsibility for maintaining and developing the sea ice component and its
-interaction with atmosphere and ocean. The NorESM should be ready to deliver results to the next
-IPCC assessment report (AR5). Also he is strongly involved in the IPY project iAOOS-Norway, with a
-special focus on improving the sea ice component used in the met.no sea-ice forecast system.
-  * Pål Erik Isachsen, p.e.isachsen@met.no
-Pål Erik Isachsen holds a M.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the
-University of Bergen, Norway. His M.Sc. work involved observations and theory of tidally-induced
-mixing in fjord while is Ph.D. work focused on analytical models of the large-scale circulation in the
-Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean and on inverse models of the high-latutude oceanic overturning
-circulation. During post doctoral studies at the University of Oslo he worked with analytical and
-numerical models of baroclinic Rossby wave break-up from baroclinic instability.
-At the Norwegian Meteorological Institute Dr. Isachsen is primarily working on the diagnosis of
-oceanic eddy activity and its representation in models---with a particular focus on topographic effects
-on eddy growth and propagation. Under a current IPY project he also works, with collaborators at the
-University of Oslo, on models of the large-scale circulation and eddy dispersion in the Southern Ocean.
-Dr. Isachsen also works on data assimilation methods in ROMS, an ocean model with which he has
-worked for more than five years.
-  * Morten Køltzow, m.koltzow(at)met.no
-Morten Køltzow took his Master of Science on antropoghenic aerosols impact on the atmospheric
-circulation in 1997. Since 1999 he has been working as scientist at in section for Meteorology in the
-R&D division at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
-He has been working in several climate projects and with the development of models for numerical
-weather prediction. He has especially acquired expertise on regional modelling (choice of domain,
-resolution and lateral and surface forcing). In addition he has been doing research on surface processes
-(e.g. fluxes at the ocean-atmosphere interface and description of snow and sea ice albedo) and how they
-influence weather and climate. In several projects he has been involved in the coupling of atmosphere
-and ocean/wave models (such as, RegClim and Thorpex).