Project Team
![](../img/icon_person.jpeg) | Yvonne Gusdal (Project leader), y.gusdal(at)met.no |
Yvonne Gusdal took her Master of Science in Physical Oceanography at the
University of Bergen in 2007 working with Nearshore wave forecasting and
hindcasting by dynamical and statistical downscaling. Since 2008 she has
been working as a scientist in the Oceanography section in the R&D division
at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. She has been working with
trajectory models in LEO (Long-term effects of oil accidents on the pelagic
ecosystem of the Norwegian and Barents Seas) and SKAGCOD (Linking physics
and biology - Structuring of cod-populations in the North Sea/ Skagerrak
water-system), and has experience from model validation. M.Sc Gusdal has
also been working with the ocean model ROMS.
![](../img/icon_person.jpeg) | Øyvind Sætra (project leader Phase I), o.satra(at)met.no |
Øyvind Sætra took his PhD on wind generation of waves and
effects of surface films of wave formation at the University of Oslo in
1996. He started to work as a scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological
Institute in the 1996. His main responsibility was the implementation of a
third generation wave forecasting model (WAM) for operational use at the
institute. Currently, Dr. Sætra is leading the wave forecasting
group the Research Department, aiming at improvement and validation 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. Here, real-time coastal radar
observations were assimilated into an ocean model. During the period
1998-2000 Dr. Sætra 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
European 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. Sætra
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.
![](../img/icon_person.jpeg) | 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 High Latitude
part of the the OSI SAF. He has taken part in different EU project (such
as EuroClim, MERSEA and MyOcean) and projects with ESA (such as
Medspiration and CryoClim). He is also involved in the Group for High
Resolution SST (GHRSST), taking part in the SST validation and diurnal
variability working groups.
![](../img/icon_person.jpeg) | 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.
![](../img/icon_person.jpeg) | 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.
![](../img/icon_person.jpeg) |
Birgitte Furevik, b.furevik(at)met.no |
Furevik has a MSc degree in oceanography from Copenhagen University from
1995 on the use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for detecting and
back-tracking oceanic internal waves. The work for the thesis was
performed during a stay at the Geophysical Institute, University of
Bergen (UiB) and at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre
(NERSC) in Bergen. 1997-2001 she worked on a PhD at NERSC/UiB with the
topic “Wind retrieval from ERS Synthetic Aperture Radar images -
application in the marginal ice zone and in coastal regions” and received
the PhD degree in November 2001. 2001-2005, Furevik held a position as
post doc. and later as research scientist at NERSC. Her main field was
microwave remote sensing (SAR and scatterometer), in particular with the
application of offshore wind resource estimation. Since April 2005, she
has been with the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, as a
research scientist. She is responsible for coastal wave modelling and
forecasting at the institute, but works also with ocean winds from models,
in situ observations and satellite. At present the focus of this work is
on coastal variability and on winds in the boundary layer above 10m.
![](../img/icon_person.jpeg) | Harald Schyberg, h.schyberg(at)met.no |
Harald Schyberg is Senior Scientist in the Numerical Weather Prediction
(NWP) Division of the R&D Department. Fields of expertise comprise use of
satellite observations in data assimilation for NWP and for extraction of
sea surface and sea ice information as well as observation impact studies
in NWP. Member of ESA ADM (Atmospheric Dynamic Mission) Science Advisory
Group, SRNWP (the Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction programme of
the European meteorological services) Expert Team on Data Assimilation and
EUCOS (EUMETNET Composite Observing System) Science Advisory Team.
![](../img/icon_person.jpeg) |
Gunnar Noer, g.noer(at)met.no |
Gunnar Noer took his Master of Science on parameterization of convective
cloud cover in 1997. Since 1998 he has been working operationally as a
senior forecaster at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, in the
Forecasting Division in Tromsø, Northern Norway. Since 2000 he has
been leading a resource group on Polar Lows, and has in that capacity
collected and studied data on a large number of Polar Lows in the Nordic
Seas. He has been responsible for the developing and testing of the
operational methodology of forecasting of Polar Lows at the Institute.
He has also cooperated with several other national and international
science communities on the topic and has contributed on several studies.
Since 2010 he has been working as a developer for arctic meteorology at
the Forecasting Division in Tromsø.
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