http://hdl.handle.net/1956/1017 description here Search the Channel search http://bora.uib.no/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2393 Title: On the Nordic Seas’ role in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation <br/> <br/>Authors: Iovino, Doroteaciro <br/> <br/>Abstract: In the present climate, the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) plays a fundamental role in the global transport of heat at high latitudes. The response of the North Atlantic Ocean-Nordic Seas THC to surface forcing and basin geometries in an idealized one-hemisphere basin is analyzed to better understand the processes that are fundamental to the modeled circulation. Focusing on the dynamics of the Nordic Seas, analytical and numerical modeling highlight the relevance of a sill (Greenland-Scotland Ridge) in setting the properties of the water masses formed in and exported from a marginal sea. Finally, the influence of the convective activity in the Greenland Sea for the overflow, and thus the overturning, is assessed using hydrographic data (from 1950 to present), a regional ocean model, and a unique tracer release experiment. Greenland Sea Gyre water is estimated to contribute less than 1 Sv, and there is no evidence for causality between changes in the Greenland Sea and the overflow. http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2378 Title: Grunnbok for Bergen 1686 <br/> <br/>Authors: Ersland, Geir Atle; Solli, Arne http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2252 Title: Books, scribes and sequences in medieval Norway <br/> <br/>Authors: Ommundsen, Åslaug <br/> <br/>Abstract: The basic source material of this study is a selected group of manuscript fragments of Norwegian provenance containing a particular type of medieval chant, generally referred to as “sequences”.1 The emphasis here is not primarily on the sequences, but on the fragments transmitting them and the physical evidence of books which once existed in Norway in complete form. This thesis explores how the fragments with sequences can be used to study a growing manuscript culture in the periphery and its innate European influences. http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2236 Title: Svá er sagt í fornum vísindum : tekstualiseringen av de mytologiske eddadikt <br/> <br/>Authors: Thorvaldsen, Bernt Øyvind http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2220 Title: Biotechnology : action and choice in second modernity <br/> <br/>Authors: Rommetveit, Kjetil http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2191 Title: Omission of the primary verbs BE and HAVE in London teenage speech : a sociolinguistic study <br/> <br/>Authors: Andersen, Gisle http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2176 Title: The Atlantic Water flow along the Vøring Plateau: Detecting frontal structures in oceanic station time series <br/> <br/>Authors: Nilsen, Jan Even Øie; Nilsen, Frank <br/> <br/>Abstract: The topographic steering of the baroclinic western branch of the Norwegian Atlantic Current (NwAC) determines the extent of Atlantic Water and location of the Arctic Front in the Nordic Seas. In this paper the geographical spread of hydrographic measurements at the Ocean Weather Station M (OWSM, 66°N 2°E) is utilised to create mean sections across the Vøring Plateau Escarpment in the Norwegian Sea. In concert with a theoretical framework involving the impact of low pressure systems on frontal jets over steep bathymetry, the behaviour of the front-current system at this location is described. It is shown that the halocline and thermocline are sloped from about 200 m in the west and down to 400 m in the east over 40 km centred on the station, indicating that the western branch of the NwAC is located here. The horizontal gradients introduced by this slope are 2°C and 0.1 for salinity. The frontal slope is not seen to change its inclination on seasonal, multi-annual, nor decadal timescales, indicating that the dynamic control of this frontal slope does not change appreciably. Further supported by the theoretical framework it is shown that the subsurface part of this front and the associated western branch of the NwAC is strongly locked by topography along the Vøring Plateau also on short timescales. From large scale bathymetry it is also shown how this kind of frontal locking can be expected over most of the ridges and continental slopes in the Nordic Seas. http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2131 Title: Å vende tilbake til Islam : Islamisering, kjønn og identitet i en fransk kontekst <br/> <br/>Authors: Jacobsen, Christine M.