Browsing Arctic Practices by Title
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ACCESS climate data management.
(2017)Building on achievements and experience gained through the EU project DAMOCLES and international data management during the International Polar Year, ACCESS, data management was implemented using the same platform as used ... -
Adapting open-source drone autopilots for real-time iceberg observations.
(2018)Drone autopilots are naturally suited for real-time iceberg tracking as they measure position and orientation (pitch, roll, and heading) and they transmit these data to a ground station. We powered an ArduPilot Mega ... -
AMAP Assessment 2013: Arctic Ocean Acidification.
(Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway, 2013)This assessment report presents the results of the 2013 AMAP Assessment of Arctic Ocean Acidification (AOA). This is the first such assessment dealing with AOA from an Arctic-wide perspective, and complements several ... -
AMAP Assessment 2018: Arctic Ocean Acidification.
(Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Tromso, Norway, 2018)This assessment report presents the results of the 2018 Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) assessment of Arctic Ocean Acidification. This is the second such assessment dealing with ocean acidification ... -
Arctic Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Plan (CBMP-MARINE PLAN).
(CAFF International Secretariat, Akureyri, Iceland, 2011)Arctic biodiversity is under growing pressure from both climate change and resource development, requiring both managers and users to have access to more complete information to help them make timely and informed conservation ... -
Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment: 2018 Summary for Policy-Makers.
(Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Oslo, Norway, 2019)This document presents the Summary for Policymakers of the 2018 Arctic Ocean Acidifi cation (AOA) Assessment. More detailed information on the results of the assessment can be found in the 2018 AOA Assessment Report. ... -
Avalanche warning in Svalbard.
(Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway, 2020)Svalbard has an extensive avalanche problem and seven people died in avalanches from 2000 to 2018. To mitigate the problem, the Norwegian Avalanche Warning Service included public avalanche warnings for Svalbard on Varsom.no ... -
Best Practices in Crafting the Calibrated, Enhanced-Resolution Passive-Microwave EASE-Grid 2.0 Brightness Temperature Earth System Data Record.
(2018)Since the late 1970s, satellite passive-microwave brightness temperatures have been a mainstay in remote sensing of the cryosphere. Polar snow and ice-covered ocean and land surfaces are especially sensitive to climate ... -
Best Practices in Ecosystem-based Oceans Management in the Arctic.
(Norsk Polarinstitutt, Tromso, Norway, 2009)The aggregate effects of multiple uses of the oceans – fishing, transportation, petroleum development, waste disposal, etc. – call for an ecosystem-based approach to oceans management. The need for oceans management ... -
Climate change impacts on wildlife in a High Arctic archipelago – Svalbard, Norway.
(2016)The Arctic is warming more rapidly than other region on the planet, and the northern Barents Sea, including the Svalbard Archipelago, is experiencing the fastest temperature increases within the circumpolar Arctic, along ... -
Climate in Svalbard 2100 – a knowledge base for climate adaptation.
(Norwegian Centre for Climate Services (NCCS) for Norwegian Environment Agency (Miljødirektoratet), Norway, 2019)This report was commissioned by the Norwegian Environment Agency in order to provide basic information for use in climate change adaptation in Svalbard. It includes descriptions of historical, as well as projections for ... -
Community and Environmental Compliance Standard Operating Procedures (CECSOP) for R/V Sikuliaq Research Operations.
(University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, 2017)The R/V Sikuliaq is owned by the National Science Foundation and operated through a Cooperative Agreement by the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). The vessel is ... -
Community-based methods for monitoring coastal erosion: a step-by-step guide for documenting shoreline change in your community.
(Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2019)This booklet provides comprehensive instructions for implementing three community-based shoreline monitoring systems, with all instructions designed to be completed by local residents. Tips for selecting monitoring sites, ... -
Community-Based Monitoring and Indigenous Knowledge in a Changing Arctic: A Review for the Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks. Final report to Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks.
(ON: Inuit Circumpolar Council, Ottawa, Canada, 2016)This review of community-based monitoring (CBM) in a changing Arctic is based on a multi-year initiative launched in 2012 as a task under the “Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks” (SAON), a network of Arctic observing ... -
Comparison of Two 16S rRNA Primers (V3–V4 and V4–V5) for Studies of Arctic Microbial.
(2021)Microbial communities of the Arctic Ocean are poorly characterized in comparison to other aquatic environments as to their horizontal, vertical, and temporal turnover. Yet, recent studies showed that the Arctic marine ... -
Copernicus Marine Service for the Arctic Region: Use case book.Version 2.0.
(Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS), 2020)Inventory of marine applications developed for the Arctic sea region with the help of Copernicus Marine Service products. -
Cornice dynamics and meteorological control at Gruvefjellet, Central Svalbard.
(2012)Cornice fall avalanches endanger life and infrastructure in Nybyen, a part of Svalbard’s main settlement Longyearbyen, located at 78◦ N in the High Arctic. Thus, cornice dynamics – accretion, cracking and eventual failure ... -
Cross-border cooperation in Maritime Spatial Planning . Final Report.
(Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2017)The ‘Study on International Best Practices for Cross-Border MSP’ has been designed to assist the European Commission (EC) and Member States in the implementation of the MSP Directive through the identification of good ... -
Cruise Expedition Monitoring Workshop and Dialogue - Seminar: On improving and expanding the environmental monitoring efforts of cruise ships in the Arctic, March 7-8 2019, Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
(INTAROS H2020 Project (GA No. 727890), Bergen, Norway, 2019)The objectives of the workshop is to jointly develop a cruise expeditions’ Arctic environmental monitoring program comprising dedicated citizen science programs. The workshop is part of the INTAROS WP4 on Community-based ... -
Dried, closed-path eddy covariance method for measuring carbon dioxide flux over sea ice.
(2018)The Arctic marine environment plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. However, there remain large uncertainties in how sea ice affects air–sea fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2), partially due to disagreement between ...
