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Christakos, Konstantinos (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Gao, Zhen (author), Björkqvist, Jan-Victor (author)It was recently shown that the Arctic has been warming much faster than the rest of the globe during the last decades. This warming has reduced the ice extent significantly, which will strongly impact the wave climate in the Arctic regions, thus affecting the design of marine structures, operations, and energy resources. This study focuses on...journal article 2023
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Nicu, Ionut Cristi (author), Fatorić, Sandra (author)Over the past decade, research on the impacts of climate change on immovable cultural heritage (ICH) in the polar regions (Arctic and Antarctica) has slowly increased. This article offers a systematic review and synthesis of the publications about climate change impacts on the diverse ICH and climate change adaptation in the polar regions....journal article 2023
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Bij de Vaate, I. (author), Martin, Ericka (author), Slobbe, D.C. (author), Naeije, M.C. (author), Verlaan, M. (author)In the Arctic Ocean, obtaining water levels from satellite altimetry is hampered by the presence of sea ice. Hence, water level retrieval requires accurate detection of fractures in the sea ice (leads). This paper describes a thorough assessment of various surface type classification methods, including a thresholding method, nine supervised-,...journal article 2022
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Braun, Moritz (author), Dörner, Alfons (author), ter Veer, Kane F. (author), Willems, Tom (author), Seidel, Marc (author), Hendrikse, H. (author), Høyland, Knut V. (author), Fischer, Claas (author), Ehlers, Sören (author)Fixed offshore wind turbines continue to be developed for high latitude areas where not only wind and wave loads need to be considered but also moving sea ice. Current rules and regulations for the design of fixed offshore structures in ice-covered waters do not adequately consider the effects of ice loading and its stochastic nature on the...journal article 2022
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Braun, Moritz (author), Dörner, Alfons (author), Willems, Tom (author), Seidel, Marc (author), Hendrikse, H. (author), Høyland, Knut V. (author), Fischer, Claas (author), Ehlers, Sören (author)Fixed offshore wind turbines are increasingly developed for high latitude areas where not only wind and wave loads need to be considered, but also moving sea ice. Current structural design rules do not adequately consider the effect of ice loading on fatigue life, due to missing studies on fatigue strength of welded joints under combined wind,...conference paper 2022
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Fahd, Faisal (author), Yang, M. (author), Khan, Faisal (author), Veitch, Brian (author)This paper investigates the linkage between the acute impacts on apex marine mammals with polar cod responses to an oil spill. It proposes a Bayesian network-based model to link these direct and indirect effects on the apex marine mammals. The model predicts a recruitment collapse (for the scenarios considered), causing a higher risk of...journal article 2021
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Bij de Vaate, I. (author), Vasulkar, A.N. (author), Slobbe, D.C. (author), Verlaan, M. (author)Seasonal modulation of the M<sub>2</sub> tide has been quantified for the entire Arctic Ocean and connected regional seas, using tidal harmonic analysis of water levels derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar altimetry. Results are compared to numerical simulations that model the effect of two limiting cases of seasonal landfast ice cover on...journal article 2021
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Sellevold, R. (author), Lenaerts, Jan T.M. (author), Vizcaino, M. (author)The Arctic is the region on Earth that is warming the fastest. At the same time, Arctic sea ice is reducing while the Greenland ice sheet (GrIS) is losing mass at an accelerated pace. Here, we study the seasonal impact of reduced Arctic sea ice on GrIS surface mass balance (SMB), using the Community Earth System Model version 2.1 (CESM2),...journal article 2021
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Box, Jason Eric (author), Colgan, William T (author), Røjle Christensen, Torben (author), Schmidt, Niels Martin (author), Lund, Magnus (author), Parmentier, Frans-Jan W (author), Brown, Ross (author), Bhatt, Uma S (author), Wouters, B. (author)Key observational indicators of climate change in the Arctic, most spanning a 47 year period (1971–2017) demonstrate fundamental changes among nine key elements of the Arctic system. We find that, coherent with increasing air temperature, there is an intensification of the hydrological cycle, evident from increases in humidity, precipitation,...review 2019
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Besseling, Floris (author), Lengkeek, H.J. (author), de Waard, Huig (author), Nieuwenhuis, Kees (author)The Afsluitdijk is one of the Dutch Delta programme landmarks. Afsluitdijk is a 32 km long primary flood defense, separating lake IJsselmeer from the Wadden Sea and protecting large areas of the Netherlands against flooding. Over the period spanning 2018 - 2022 the levee will be upgraded by the consortium Levvel (BAM, Van Oord and Rebel). Ice...conference paper 2019
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Kleptsova, O.S. (author), Pietrzak, J.D. (author)Ice induced variability of tides in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, including Baffin Bay and Hudson Strait/Hudson Bay system, was studied by means of a new high resolution tidal model. Here we show that the seasonal variations of the tidal constants are significant in the major part of the domain. Month to month changes of the tidal phases...journal article 2018
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- de Koning, Remco Elric (author), van Nes, A. (author) abstract 2018
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Giamarelou, Maria (author), Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos (author), Nyeki, Stephan (author), Tunved, Peter (author), Torseth, Kjetil (author), Biskos, G. (author)Previous long-term observations have shown that nanoparticle formation events are common in the summer-time high Arctic and linked to local photochemical activity. However, current knowledge is limited with respect to the chemical precursors of resulting nanoparticles and the compounds involved in their subsequent growth. Here we report case...journal article 2016
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Bos, R.W. (author), Huisman, T.J. (author), Obers, M.P.W. (author), Schaap, T. (author), Van der Zalm, M. (author)Background To design a ship its specific design requirements are to be known. These are, together with class notations, specified in previous reports and extended in this report. Since the requirements are formed iteratively, design freedom is possible. This is used to implement several innovations into the design which improve the performance...report 2013
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Bos, R.W. (author), Huisman, T.J. (author), Obers, M.P.W. (author), Schaap, T. (author), Van der Zalm, M. (author)Background At the start of a design it is often good to look at comparable designs. What choices were made, what are the operations, what equipment is used? This report looks at three Damen ships, which are already capable of offshore support. These vessels are designed for open water. Looking just at what has to improve for operating in the...report 2013
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Bos, R.W. (author), Huisman, T.J. (author), Obers, M.P.W. (author), Schaap, T. (author), Van der Zalm, M. (author)Background The Dutch maritime industry has only limited knowledge about Arctic engineering, in spite of a growing market and interest by the oil and gas industry. This literature survey is the first in a series of three reports to develop a concept design of an Arctic Offshore Support Vessel (AOSV). The purpose is to give a perspective on Arctic...report 2013
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Slobbe, D.C. (author), Ditmar, P.G. (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author)The focus of this paper is on the quantification of ongoing mass and volume changes over the Greenland ice sheet. For that purpose, we used elevation changes derived from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) laser altimetry mission and monthly variations of the Earth’s gravity field as observed by the Gravity Recovery and...journal article 2008
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Arnsten, O.A. (author)Proceedings on the occasion of professor Alf Tørum's 75th birthday - overview of relevant developments in coastal and offshore engineering with a focus on arctic regions.report 2008
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Verhagen, H.J. (author)Summary of the engineering activities needed for the design of man-made islands, with focus on arctic areasreport 1982