• Antarctic climate variability on regional and continental scales over the last 2000 years 

      Stenni, Barbara; Curran, Mark A.J.; Abram, Nerilie J.; Orsi, Anais; Goursaud, Sentia; Masson-Delmotte, Valerie; Neukom, Raphael; Goosse, Hugues; Divine, Dmitry V; Van Ommen, Tas; Steig, Eric J.; Dixon, Daniel A.; Thomas, Elizabeth R.; Bertler, Nancy A.N.; Isaksson, Elisabeth; Ekaykin, Alexey; Werner, Martin; Frezzotti, Massimo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-11-17)
      Climate trends in the Antarctic region remain poorly characterized, owing to the brevity and scarcity of direct climate observations and the large magnitude of interannual to decadal-scale climate variability. Here, within the framework of the PAGES Antarctica2k working group, we build an enlarged database of ice core water stable isotope records from Antarctica, consisting of 112 records. ...
    • Arctic hydroclimate variability during the last 2000 years: current understanding and research challenges 

      Linderholm, Hans W.; Nicolle, Marie; Francus, Pierre; Gajewski, Konrad; Helama, Samuli; Korhola, Atte; Solomina, Olga; Yu, Zicheng; Zhang, Peng; D'Andrea, William J.; Debret, Maxime; Divine, Dmitry V; Gunnarson, Björn E.; Loader, Neil J.; Massei, Nicolas; Seftigen, Kristina; Thomas, Elizabeth K.; Werner, Johannes; Andersson, Sofia; Berntsson, Annika; Luoto, Tomi P.; Nevalainen, Liisa; Saarni, Saija; Väliranta, Minna (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-10)
      Reanalysis data show an increasing trend in Arctic precipitation over the 20th century, but changes are not homogenous across seasons or space. The observed hydroclimate changes are expected to continue and possibly accelerate in the coming century, not only affecting pan-Arctic natural ecosystems and human activities, but also lower latitudes through the atmospheric and ocean circulations. However, ...
    • Assessing the performance of the BARCAST climate field reconstruction technique for a climate with long-range memory 

      Nilsen, Tine; Werner, Johannes; Divine, Dmitry V; Rypdal, Martin wibe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-29)
      The skill of the state-of-the-art climate field reconstruction technique BARCAST (Bayesian Algorithm for Reconstructing Climate Anomalies in Space and Time) to reconstruct temperature with pronounced long-range memory (LRM) characteristics is tested. A novel technique for generating fields of target data has been developed and is used to provide ensembles of LRM stochastic processes with a prescribed ...
    • Bayesian modeling and significant features exploration in wavelet power spectra 

      Divine, Dmitry V; Godtliebsen, Fred (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2007)
    • Climate variability in the subarctic area for the last 2 millennia 

      Nicolle, Marie; Debret, Maxime; Massei, Nicolas; Colin, Christophe; de Vernal, Anne; Divine, Dmitry V; Werner, Johannes; Hormes, Anne; Korhola, Atte; Linderholm, Hans W. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-25)
      To put recent climate change in perspective, it is necessary to extend the instrumental climate records with proxy data from paleoclimate archives. Arctic climate variability for the last 2 millennia has been investigated using statistical and signal analyses from three regionally averaged records from the North Atlantic, Siberia and Alaska based on many types of proxy data archived in the ...
    • Consistent ice and open water classification combining historical synthetic aperture radar satellite images from ERS-1/2, Envisat ASAR, RADARSAT-2 and Sentinel-1A/B 

      Johansson, Malin; Malnes, Eirik; Gerland, Sebastian; Cristea, Anca; Doulgeris, Anthony Paul; Divine, Dmitry V; Pavlova, Olga; Lauknes, Tom Rune (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-17)
      Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite images are used to monitor Arctic sea ice, with systematic data records dating back to 1991. We propose a semi-supervised classification method that separates open water from sea ice and can utilise ERS-1/2, Envisat ASAR, RADARSAT-2 and Sentinel-1 SAR images. The classification combines automatic segmentation with a manual segment selection stage. The ...
    • Consistent ice and open water classification combining historical synthetic aperture radar satellite images from ERS-1/2, Envisat ASAR, RADARSAT-2, and Sentinel-1A/B 

      Johansson, Malin; Malnes, Eirik; Gerland, Sebastian; Cristea, Anca; Doulgeris, Anthony Paul; Divine, Dmitry V; Pavlova, Olga; Lauknes, Tom Rune (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2020)
    • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era 

      Emile-Geay, Julien; McKay, Nicholas P; Kaufman, Darrell S; Von Gunten, Lucien; Wang, Jianghao; Anchukaitis, Kevin J; Abram, Nerilie J; Addison, Jason A; Curran, Mark AJ; Evans, Michael N; Henley, Benjamin J; Hao, Zhixin; Martrat, Belen; McGregor, Helen V; Neukom, Raphael; Pederson, Gregory T; Stenni, Barbara; Thirumalai, Kaustubh; Werner, Johannes P; Xu, Chenxi; Divine, Dmitry V; Dixon, Bronwyn C; Gergis, Joelle; Mundo, Ignacio A; Nakatsuka, Takeshi; Phipps, Steven J; Routson, Cody C; Steig, Eric J; Tierney, Jessica E; Tyler, Jonathan J; Allen, Kathryn J; Bertler, Nancy AN; Bjorklund, Jesper; Chase, Brian M; Chen, Min-Te; Cook, Ed; De Jong, Rixt; DeLong, Kristine L; Dixon, Daniel A; Ekaykin, Alexey A; Ersek, Vasile; Filipsson, Helena L; Francus, Pierre; Freund, Mandy B; Frezzotti, Massimo; Gaire, Narayan P; Gajewski, Konrad; Ge, Quansheng; Goosse, Hugues; Gornostaeva, Anastasia; Grosjean, Martin; Horiuchi, Kazuho; Hormes, Anne; Husum, Katrine; Isaksson, Elisabeth; Kandasamy, Selvaraj; Kawamura, Kenji; Kilbourne, K Halimeda; Koc, Nalan; Leduc, Guillaume; Linderholm, Hans W; Lorrey, Andrew M; Mikhalenko, Vladimir; Mortyn, P Graham; Motoyama, Hideaki; Moy, Andrew D; Mulvaney, Robert; Munz, Philipp M; Nash, David J; Oerter, Hans; Opel, Thomas; Orsi, Anais J; Ovchinnikov, Dmitriy V; Porter, Trevor J; Roop, Heidi A; Saenger, Casey; Sano, Masaki; Sauchyn, David; Saunders, Krystyna M; Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig; Severi, Mirko; Shao, Xuemei; Sicre, Marie-Alexandrine; Sigl, Michael; Sinclair, Kate; St George, Scott; St Jacques, Jeannine-Marie; Thamban, Meloth; Thapa, Udya Kuwar; Thomas, Elizabeth R; Turney, Chris; Uemura, Ryu; Viau, Andre E; Vladimirova, Diana O; Wahl, Eugene R; White, James WC; Yu, Zicheng; Zinke, Jens (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-11)
      Reproducible climate reconstructions of the Common Era (1 CE to present) are key to placing industrial-era warming into the context of natural climatic variability. Here we present a community-sourced database of temperature-sensitive proxy records from the PAGES2k initiative. The database gathers 692 records from 648 locations, including all continental regions and major ocean basins. The records ...
    • Pairwise scale space comparison of time series with application to climate research 

      Godtliebsen, Fred; Holmström, L.; Miettinen, A.; Erästö, P.; Divine, Dmitry V; Koc, Nalan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      In this paper, we study how sea surface temperature variations in the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea are correlated with the climate in the Northern Hemisphere in late Holocene. The analysis is performed by testing statistical hypotheses through novel scale space methodologies. In late Holocene, the proposed techniques reveal that the climate development in the subpolar North Atlantic has been ...
    • A propagation-separation approach to estimate the autocorrelation in a time-series 

      Divine, Dmitry V; Polzehl, J; Godtliebsen, Fred (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2008)
    • Regional melt-pond fraction and albedo of thin Arctic first-year drift ice in late summer 

      Divine, Dmitry V; Granskog, Mats A.; Hudson, Stephen R.; Pedersen, Christina Alsvik; Karlsen, Tor Ivan; Divina, S.A.; Renner, Angelika; Gerland, Sebastian (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-02-09)
      The paper presents a case study of the regional ( ≈ 150 km) morphological and optical properties of a relatively thin, 70–90 cm modal thickness, first-year Arctic sea ice pack in an advanced stage of melt. The study combines in situ broadband albedo measurements representative of the four main surface types (bare ice, dark melt ponds, bright melt ponds and open water) and images acquired by a ...
    • A review of the scientific knowledge of the seascape off Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica 

      Lowther, Andrew; von Quillfeldt, Cecilie; Assmy, Philipp; de Steur, Laura; Descamps, Sebastien; Divine, Dmitry V; Elvevold, Synnøve; Forwick, Matthias; Fransson, Agneta; Fraser, Alexander; Gerland, Sebastian; Granskog, Mats A.; Hallanger, Ingeborg G.; Hattermann, Tore; Itkin, Mikhail; Hop, Haakon; Husum, Katrine; Kovacs, Kit M.; Lydersen, Christian; Matsuoka, Kenichi; Miettinen, Arto; Moholdt, Geir; Moreau, Sebastien; Myhre, Per Inge; Orme, Lisa; Pavlova, Olga; Tandberg, Anne Helene S. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-29)
      Despite the exclusion of the Southern Ocean from assessments of progress towards achieving the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Strategic Plan, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) has taken on the mantle of progressing eforts to achieve it. Within the CBD, Aichi Target 11 represents an agreed commitment to protect 10% of the global coastal and ...
    • Signature of Arctic first-year ice melt pond fraction in X-band SAR imagery 

      Fors, Ane Schwenke; Divine, Dmitry V; Doulgeris, Anthony Paul; Renner, Angelika; Gerland, Sebastian (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-03-23)
      In this paper we investigate the potential of melt pond fraction retrieval from X-band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) on drifting first-year sea ice. Melt pond fractions retrieved from a helicopter-borne camera system were compared to polarimetric features extracted from four dual-polarimetric X-band SAR scenes, revealing significant relationships. The correlations were strongly dependent ...
    • Spatio-temporal variability of Arctic summer temperatures over the past 2 millennia 

      Werner, Johannes; Divine, Dmitry V; Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier; Nilsen, Tine; Francus, Pierre (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-04-24)
      <p>In this article, the first spatially resolved and millennium-length summer (June–August) temperature reconstruction over the Arctic and sub-Arctic domain (north of 60°N) is presented. It is based on a set of 44 annually dated temperature-sensitive proxy archives of various types from the revised PAGES2k database supplemented with six new recently updated proxy records. As a major advance, an ...
    • Still Arctic? — The changing Barents Sea 

      Gerland, Sebastian; Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær; Reigstad, Marit; Sundfjord, Arild; Bogstad, Bjarte; Chierici, Melissa; Hop, Haakon; Renaud, Paul Eric; Smedsrud, Lars Henrik; Stige, Leif Christian; Årthun, Marius; Berge, Jørgen; Bluhm, Bodil Annikki Ulla Barbro; Borgå, Katrine; Bratbak, Gunnar; Divine, Dmitry V; Eldevik, Tor; Eriksen, Elena; Fer, Ilker; Fransson, Agneta; Gradinger, Rolf Rudolf; Granskog, Mats A.; Haug, Tore; Husum, Katrine; Johnsen, Geir; Jonassen, Marius Opsanger; Jørgensen, Lis Lindal; Kristiansen, Svein; Larsen, Aud; Lien, Vidar Surén; Lind, Sigrid; Lindstrøm, Ulf Ove; Mauritzen, Cecilie; Melsom, Arne; Mernild, Sebastian H.; Müller, Malte; Nilsen, Frank; Primicerio, Raul; Søreide, Janne; van der Meeren, Gro Ingleid; Wassmann, Paul (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-13)
      The Barents Sea is one of the Polar regions where current climate and ecosystem change is most pronounced. Here we review the current state of knowledge of the physical, chemical and biological systems in the Barents Sea. Physical conditions in this area are characterized by large seasonal contrasts between partial sea-ice cover in winter and spring versus predominantly open water in summer and ...
    • Surface mass balance and stable oxygen isotope ratios from shallow firn cores on Fimbulisen, East Antarctica 

      Schlosser, E; Anschütz, Helgard; Isaksson, E.; Martma, T; Divine, Dmitry V; Nøst, O.-A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The mass balance of Antarctica is one of the crucial factors for determining sea-level change in a warming climate. The marginal zones of the continent, namely the ice shelves, are most sensitive to climate change. During the 2009/10 austral summer an extensive glaciological field campaign was carried out on Fimbulisen, an ice shelf in East Antarctica, to investigate its recent surface mass balance. ...
    • Thousand years of winter surface air temperature variations in Svalbard and northern Norway reconstructed from ice-core data 

      Divine, Dmitry V; Godtliebsen, Fred (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Two isotopic ice core records from western Svalbard are calibrated to reconstruct more than 1000 years of past winter surface air temperature variations in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, and Vardø, northern Norway. Analysis of the derived reconstructions suggests that the climate evolution of the last millennium in these study areas comprises three major sub-periods. The cooling stage in Svalbard (ca. ...
    • Younger Dryas ice margin retreat triggered by ocean surface warming in central-eastern Baffin Bay 

      Oksman, Mimmi; Weckström, Kaarina; Miettinen, Arto; Juggins, Stephen; Divine, Dmitry V; Jackson, Rebecca; Telford, Richard; Korsgaard, Niels J.; Kučera, Michal (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-10-18)
      The transition from the last ice age to the present-day interglacial was interrupted by the Younger Dryas (YD) cold period. While many studies exist on this climate event, only few include high-resolution marine records that span the YD. In order to better understand the interactions between ocean, atmosphere and ice sheet stability during the YD, more high-resolution proxy records from the Arctic, ...