Peer-reviewed papers
.Coupled weather - wave forecasting system for the European Arctic
Thomas, E. E., M. Müller, P. Bohliner, Y. Batrak, N. Szapiro (2021) A kilometer-scale coupled atmosphere-wave forecasting system for the European Arctic, Weather and Forecasting [ref]
Müller, M., Y. Batrak, F. Dinesen, R. Grote, K. Wang (2023) Challenges in the description of sea-ice for a kilometer-scale weather forecasting system. Weather and Forecasting 2(12), 1157-1171 [ref]
Co-production of probabilistic forecasts
Jeuring J., E. M. Samuelsen, M. Lamers, M. Müller, B. A. Hjøllo, and L. Bertino (2024) Map-based ensemble forecasts for maritime operations: An interactive usability assessment with decision scenarios. Weather, Climate, and Society in press [ref]
Machine Learning for sea-ice and ocean forecasts.
Palerme, C. and M. Müller (2021) Calibration of sea-ice drift forecasts using random forest algorithms, The Cryosphere,15 (8) [ref]
Thomas, E. E. and M. Müller (2022) Characterizing vertical upper ocean temperature structures in the European Arctic through unsupervised machine learning. Ocean Modelling. 177, 102092 [ref]
Deployment of Drifters
Rabault J. et al. (2022) OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean. Geosciences,12 110 [ref]
Rabault J. et al. (2023) A dataset of direct observations of sea ice drift and waves in ice. Scientific Data. 10 (251)[ref]
Events
April 2024 --- SvalMIZ 2024 Experiment
In April 2024, with the help of the Coast Guard (KV Svalbard) a network of OceanMetBuoys will be deployed in a spatial distributed network. The main goal of the experiment is to advance our understanding and forecasting capabilities of atmosphere, waves and sea-ice dynamics in the Marginal Ice Zone.
May 2022 --- End-user workshop Tromsø
An interactive stakeholder workshop which aimed to advance context-based insights on the usability of graphical representations of forecast uncertainty in the field of maritime operations took place in Tromsø in May 2022. The workshop involved participants from various maritime sectors, including cruise tourism, fisheries, government, private forecast service providers, and research/academia. Geographically situated in Norway, the workshop employed sea spray icing as a use-case for various decision scenario exercises, using both fixed probability and fixed threshold formats, supplemented with temporal ensemble diagrams.
February 2021 --- Launch of sea-ice / ocean drifters
As part of our coupled forecast model developments we received funding in the FOCUS project to manifacture drifters, which measure sea-ice/ocean drift and wave activity. We had the opportunitiy to join the Nansen Legacy Process Cruise in February 2021 and deploy in total 12 of the FOCUS drifters, in addition to the 6 drifters developed by Jean Rabault in the DOFI project. These observations are crucial for our development of the coupled weather/wave/ice/ocen forecasting system. We acknowledge the support from Jean Rabault and Øyvind Breivik in the preparation, development, and deployment of the drifters. A video of the drift trajectories, the sea-ice fields, and significant wave height and direction can be found here.
December 2020. --- Stakeholder Advisory Group Meeting
A Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) meeting took place 7th December 2020. The Group includes Troels Jacobsen (Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators), Eivind Rinde (BarentsWatch), Lisbeth Håvik (Royal Norwegian Navy), Tor Are Vaskinn (Fiskebåt), Terje Brinck Løyning (Maritimt Forum Nord). The project partners presented their project tasks to the SAG and, in addition, presented projects (PRISMAS, SALIENSEAS, ICEYSEAS) which are connected to the main objective of the FOCUS project. The presentation were followed by an interesting discussion between the SAG and the FOCUS project team on the identification of barriers and opportunities toward value-added sea-ice and weather services.