Professor II in Physical oceanography / Head of Division for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology at The Norwegian Meteorological Institute

My scientific work is motivated by the potential for observing systems and forecast models to improve safety and reduce the environmental impact of human activities at sea.

The Division for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute is located in the main building together with the Geophysical Institute. We are responsible for the national wave forecasting (WaveWatch III and WAM) and dispersion modelling (using the OpenDrift code to simulate oil spills, search and rescue, pollution, drifting ships, etc) for Norwegian waters. We also build and maintain climate archives of the atmosphere, ocean waves and water level (the NORA3 archive).

We have at all times several MSc and PhD students working on topics relevant to the national weather service, with a special focus on ocean waves and wave climate, marine dispersion modelling and marine climate. Please get in touch if you want to know what sorts of topics we can offer.

 

 

HTEK101 (Introduction to ocean environment, the oceanography section)

GEOF343 (Wind-generated surface waves)

Lecture

• Jaison, Ashbin; Michel, Clio; Sorteberg, Asgeir et al. (2024). Projections of windstorm damages under changing climate and demography for Norway . (external link)
• Jaison, Ashbin; Sorteberg, Asgeir; Michel, Clio et al. (2024). Quantification, future projections and impact-based forecasting of damages. (external link)
• Michel, Clio; Furevik, Birgitte Rugaard; Breivik, Øyvind (2024). Climatology of low-level jets in Scandinavia for offshore wind applications and a variety of datasets. (external link)
• Jaison, Ashbin; Sorteberg, Asgeir; Michel, Clio et al. (2022). Storm damage relations for Norway: damage function approach. (external link)
• Tedesco, Paulina Souza; Rabault, Jean; Sætra, Martin Lilleeng et al. (2022). Bias Correction of Operational Storm Surge Forecasts Using Neural Networks. (external link)

Poster

• Jaison, Ashbin; Sorteberg, Asgeir; Michel, Clio et al. (2024). Storms and associated damages in Norway. (external link)
• Björkqvist, Jan-Victor; Furevik, Birgitte Rugaard; Bohlinger, Patrik et al. (2024). NORAC: An unstructured coastal wave hindcast for Nordvestlandet and Midt-Norge. (external link)
• Ali, Alfatih; Bentsen, Mats; Toniazzo, Thomas et al. (2024). Investigating the influence of Langmuir turbulence parameterization on the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM). (external link)
• Nordam, Tor; Nepstad, Raymond; Litzler, Emma et al. (2024). Use of ensemble prediction systems in operational oil spill modelling. (external link)
• Rabault, Jean; Müller, Malte; Hope, Gaute et al. (2023). Collecting Marginal Ice Zone ground truth observations: recent deployments, data use, and outstanding questions. (external link)
• Jaison, Ashbin; Sorteberg, Asgeir; Michel, Clio et al. (2022). Storms and associated damages in Norway. (external link)
• Jaison, Ashbin; Sorteberg, Asgeir; Michel, Clio et al. (2022). Storms and associated damages in Norway. (external link)
• Carrasco, Ana; Ali, Alfatih; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2022). MakingWaves: Wave-mediated atmosphere-ocean-sea-ice interactions and their climatic impacts in the Nordic Seas and eastern Arctic. (external link)
• Ali, Alfatih Omer Mohammed Ahmed; Christensen, Kai Håkon; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2018). Assessing the impact of surface waves on the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas simulations using HYCOM. (external link)
• Jones, Cathleen Elaine; Brekke, Camilla; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2016). NORSE2015 - A Focused Experiment On Oil Emulsion Characterization Using PolSAR During the 2015 Norwegian Oil-On-Water Exercise. (external link)
• Carrasco, Ana; Semedo, Alvaro; Behrens, Arno et al. (2016). Projected Changes on the Global Surface Wave Drift Climate towards the END of the Twenty-First Century. (external link)
• Christensen, Kai Håkon; Breivik, Øyvind; Sutherland, Graigory John et al. (2016). A robust definition for the turbulent Langmuir number. (external link)
• Brekke, Camilla; Jones, Cathleen Elaine; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2016). Characterizing Experimental Oil Spills by Multi-polarization Synthetic Aperture Radar. (external link)
• Ward, Brian; Sutherland, Graigory John; Reverdin, Gilles et al. (2015). Ocean Surface Observations of the Diurnal Cycle of Turbulence with ASIP. (external link)

Academic article

• Jaison, Ashbin; Michel, Clio; Sorteberg, Asgeir et al. (2024). Projections of windstorms damages under changing climate and demography for Norway. (external link)
• Halsne, Trygve; Benetazzo, Alvise; Barbariol, Francesco et al. (2024). Wave Modulation in a Strong Tidal Current and Its Impact on Extreme Waves. (external link)
• Ølberg, Judith Thu; Bohlinger, Patrik; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2024). Wave measurements using open source ship mounted ultrasonic altimeter and motion correction system during the one ocean circumnavigation. (external link)
• Bitner-Gregersen, E. M.; Gramstad, Odin; Trulsen, Karsten et al. (2024). Rogue waves: Results of the ExWaMar project. (external link)
• Jaison, Ashbin; Sorteberg, Asgeir; Michel, Clio et al. (2024). Assessment of wind-damage relations for Norway using 36 years of daily insurance data. (external link)
• Tedesco, Paulina Souza; Rabault, Jean; Sætra, Martin Lilleeng et al. (2024). Bias correction of operational storm surge forecasts using Neural Networks. (external link)
• Aghito, Shankar Manuel; Pampanin, Daniela Maria; Nepstad, Raymond et al. (2024). Modelling and validation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emissions from offshore oil production facilities. (external link)
• Benetazzo, Alvise; Halsne, Trygve; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2024). On the short-term response of entrained air bubbles in the upper ocean: a case study in the north Adriatic Sea. (external link)
• Bonaduce, Antonio; Pham, Nam Thanh; Staneva, Joanna et al. (2024). Sea state contributions to thermosteric sea-level in high-resolution ocean-wave coupled simulations. (external link)
• Kristensen, Nils Melsom; Tedesco, Paulina Souza; Rabault, Jean et al. (2024). NORA-Surge: A storm surge hindcast for the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea and the Barents Sea. (external link)
• Aghito, Shankar Manuel; Calgaro, Loris; Dagestad, Knut-Frode et al. (2023). ChemicalDrift 1.0: an open-source Lagrangian chemical-fate and transport model for organic aquatic pollutants. (external link)
• Bohlinger, Patrik; Economou, Theodoros; Aarnes, Ole Johan et al. (2023). A general framework to obtain seamless seasonal–directional extreme individual wave heights—Showcase Ekofisk. (external link)
• Malila, Mika Petteri; Barbariol, Francesco; Benetazzo, Alvise et al. (2023). Statistical and Dynamical Characteristics of Extreme Wave Crests Assessed with Field Measurements from the North Sea. (external link)
• Rabault, Jean; Müller, Malte; Voermans, Joey et al. (2023). A dataset of direct observations of sea ice drift and waves in ice. (external link)
• Nguyen, Dung M.; Hole, Lars Robert; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2023). Marine Plastic Drift from the Mekong River to Southeast Asia. (external link)
• Halsne, Trygve; Christensen, Kai Håkon; Hope, Gaute et al. (2023). Ocean wave tracing v.1: a numerical solver of the wave ray equations for ocean waves on variable currents at arbitrary depths. (external link)
• Erikson, L.; Morim, J.; Hemer, M. et al. (2022). Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble. (external link)
• Sutherland, Graig; Martins de Aguiar, Victor Cesar; Hole, Lars Robert et al. (2022). Estimating a mean transport velocity in the marginal ice zone using ice-ocean prediction systems. (external link)
• Wu, Lichuan; Breivik, Øyvind; Qiao, Fangli (2022). The Redistribution of Air–Sea Momentum and Turbulent Kinetic Energy Fluxes by Ocean Surface Gravity Waves. (external link)
• Haakenstad, Hilde; Breivik, Øyvind (2022). NORA3. Part II: Precipitation and Temperature Statistics in Complex Terrain Modeled with a Nonhydrostatic Model. (external link)
• Rabault, Jean; Nose, Takehiko; Hope, Gaute et al. (2022). OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean. (external link)
• Malila, Mika Petteri; Bohlinger, Patrik; Støle-Hentschel, Susanne et al. (2022). A Nonparametric, Data-Driven Approach to Despiking Ocean Surface Wave Time Series. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Carrasco, Ana; Haakenstad, Hilde et al. (2022). The Impact of a Reduced High-Wind Charnock Parameter on Wave Growth With Application to the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Arctic Ocean. (external link)
• Malila, Mika Petteri; Thomson, J.; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2022). On the Groupiness and Intermittency of Oceanic Whitecaps. (external link)
• Halsne, Trygve; Bohlinger, Patrik; Christensen, Kai Håkon et al. (2022). Resolving regions known for intense wave–current interaction using spectral wave models: A case study in the energetic flow fields of Northern Norway. (external link)
• Christakos, Konstantinos; Björkqvist, Jan-Victor; Tuomi, Laura et al. (2021). Modelling wave growth in narrow fetch geometries: The white-capping and wind input formulations. (external link)
• Staneva, Joanna; Ricker, Marcel; Alvarez, Ruben Carrasco et al. (2021). Effects of wave-induced processes in a coupled wave-ocean model on particle transport simulations. (external link)
• Christakos, Konstantinos; Björkqvist, Jan-Victor; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2021). The impact of surface currents on the wave climate in narrow fjords. (external link)
• Sætra, Øyvind; Halsne, Trygve; Carrasco, Ana et al. (2021). Intense Interactions between Ocean Waves and Currents Observed in the Lofoten Maelstrom. (external link)
• Haakenstad, Hilde; Breivik, Øyvind; Furevik, Birgitte Rugaard et al. (2021). Nora3: A nonhydrostatic high-resolution hindcast of the north sea, the Norwegian sea, and the Barents sea. (external link)
• Sutherland, Graig; Soontiens, Nancy; Davidson, Fraser et al. (2020). Evaluating the leeway coefficient of ocean drifters using operational marine environmental prediction systems. (external link)
• Meucci, Alberto; Young, Ian R.; Aarnes, Ole Johan et al. (2020). Comparison of wind speed and wave height trends from twentieth-century models and satellite altimeters. (external link)
• Strand, Kjersti Opstad; Breivik, Øyvind; Pedersen, Geir et al. (2020). Long-Term Statistics of Observed Bubble Depth Versus Modeled Wave Dissipation. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Christensen, Kai Håkon (2020). A combined stokes drift profile under swell and wind sea. (external link)
• Bonaduce, Antonio; Staneva, Joanna; Grayek, Sebastian et al. (2020). Sea-state contributions to sea-level variability in the European Seas. (external link)
• Rabault, Jean; Sutherland, Graig; Gundersen, Olav et al. (2020). An open source, versatile, affordable waves in ice instrument for scientific measurements in the Polar Regions. (external link)
• Takbash, Alicia; Young, Ian R; Breivik, Øyvind (2019). Global wind speed and wave height extremes derived from long-duration satellite records. (external link)
• Ali, Alfatih ; Christensen, Kai Håkon; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2019). A comparison of Langmuir turbulence parameterizations and key wave effects in a numerical model of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Carrasco, Ana; Staneva, Joanna et al. (2019). Global Stokes drift climate under the RCP8.5 scenario. (external link)
• Haakenstad, Hilde; Breivik, Øyvind; Reistad, Magnar et al. (2019). NORA10EI: A revised regional atmosphere-wave hindcast for the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. (external link)
• Morim, Joao; Hemer, Mark; Wang, Xiaolan L. et al. (2019). Robustness and uncertainties in global multivariate wind-wave climate projections. (external link)
• Bohlinger, Patrik; Breivik, Øyvind; Economou, Theodoros et al. (2019). A novel approach to computing super observations for probabilistic wave model validation. (external link)
• Christakos, Konstantinos; Furevik, Birgitte Rugaard; Aarnes, Ole Johan et al. (2019). The importance of wind forcing in fjord wave modelling . (external link)
• Gommenginger, Christine; Chapron, Bertrand; Hogg, Andy et al. (2019). SEASTAR: A Mission to Study Ocean Submesoscale Dynamics and Small-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Processes in Coastal, Shelf and Polar Seas. (external link)
• Wu, Lichuan; Breivik, Øyvind; Rutgersson, Anna (2019). Ocean-wave-atmosphere interaction processes in a fully coupled modelling system. (external link)
• Wu, Lichuan; Staneva, Joanna; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2019). Wave effects on coastal upwelling and water level. (external link)
• Esters, Leonie; Breivik, Øyvind; Landwehr, Sebastian et al. (2018). Turbulence Scaling Comparisons in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer. (external link)
• Dagestad, Knut-Frode; Röhrs, Johannes; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2018). OpenDrift v1.0: A generic framework for trajectory modelling. (external link)
• Bitner-Gregersen, Elzbieta M.; Vanem, Erik; Gramstad, Odin et al. (2018). Climate change and safe design of ship structures. (external link)
• Gramstad, Odin; Bitner-Gregersen, Elzbieta; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2018). Analysis of Rogue Waves in North-Sea In-Situ Surface Wave Data. (external link)
• Meucci, Alberto; Young, Ian R; Breivik, Øyvind (2018). Wind and wave extremes from atmosphere and wave model ensembles. (external link)
• Cavaleri, Luigi; Abdalla, Saleh; Benetazzo, Alvise et al. (2018). Wave modelling in coastal and inner seas. (external link)
• Strand, Kjersti Opstad; Vikebø, Frode Bendiksen; Sundby, Svein et al. (2018). Subsurface maxima in buoyant fish eggs indicate vertical velocity shear and spatially limited spawning grounds. (external link)
• Schemm, Sebastian; Nummelin, Aleksi; Kvamstø, Nils Gunnar et al. (2017). The ocean version of the Lagrangian analysis tool LAGRANTO. (external link)
• Christensen, Kai Håkon; Carrasco, Ana; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond et al. (2017). The "shallow-waterness" of the wave climate in European coastal regions. (external link)
• Li, Qing; Fox-Kemper, Baylor; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2017). Statistical models of global Langmuir mixing. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Aarnes, Ole Johan (2017). Efficient bootstrap estimates for tail statistics. (external link)
• Aarnes, Ole Johan; Reistad, Magnar; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2017). Projected changes in significant wave height toward the end of the 21st century: Northeast Atlantic. (external link)
• Staneva, Joanna; Alari, Victor; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2017). Effects of wave-induced forcing on a circulation model of the North Sea. (external link)
• Alari, Victor; Staneva, Joanna; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2016). Surface wave effects on water temperature in the Baltic Sea: simulations with the coupled NEMO-WAM model. (external link)
• Jones, Cathleen Elaine; Dagestad, Knut-Frode; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2016). Measurement and modeling of oil slick transport. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond; Janssen, Peter A.E.M. (2016). A Stokes drift approximation based on the Phillips spectrum. (external link)
• Scanlon, Brian; Breivik, Øyvind; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond et al. (2016). Modeling whitecap fraction with a wave model. (external link)
• Aarnes, Ole Johan; Abdalla, Saleh; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond et al. (2015). Marine wind and wave height trends at different ERA-interim forecast ranges. (external link)
• Röhrs, Johannes; Sperrevik, Ann Kristin; Christensen, Kai Håkon et al. (2015). Comparison of HF radar measurements with Eulerian and Lagrangian surface currents. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Mogensen, Kristian; Bidlot, Jean-Raymond et al. (2015). Surface wave effects in the NEMO ocean model: Forced and coupled experiments. (external link)
• Semedo, Alvaro; Vettor, Roberto; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2014). The wind sea and swell waves climate in the Nordic seas. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Aarnes, Ole Johan; Abdalla, Saleh et al. (2014). Wind and wave extremes over the world oceans from very large ensembles. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Aarnes, Ole Johan; Sætra, Øyvind et al. (2013). Wave Extremes in the Northeast Atlantic from Ensemble Forecasts. (external link)
• Barrick, Donald; Fernandez, Vicente; Ferrer, Maria I. et al. (2012). A short-term predictive system for surface currents from a rapidly deployed coastal HF radar network. (external link)
• Aarnes, Ole Johan; Breivik, Øyvind; Reistad, Magnar (2012). Wave extremes in the Northeast Atlantic. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Allen, Arthur A.; Maisondieu, Christophe et al. (2012). The leeway of shipping containers at different immersion levels. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Bekkvik, Tor Christian; Wettre, Cecilie Drabløs et al. (2012). BAKTRAK: Backtracking drifting objects using an iterative algorithm with a forward trajectory model. (external link)
• Føre, Ivan; Kristjansson, Jon Egill; Sætra, Øyvind et al. (2011). The full life cycle of a polar low over the Norwegian Sea observed by three research aircraft flights. (external link)
• Reistad, Magnar; Breivik, Øyvind; Haakenstad, Hilde et al. (2011). A high-resolution hindcast of wind and waves for The North Sea, The Norwegian Sea and The Barents Sea. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Gusdal, Yvonne; Furevik, Birgitte Rugaard et al. (2009). Nearshore wave forecasting and hindcasting by dynamical and statistical downscaling. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Breivik, Øyvind; Carrasco, Ana; Ali, Alfatih et al. (2024). The wave-mediated ocean-atmosphere system. (external link)
• Jaison, Ashbin; Sorteberg, Asgeir; Michel, Clio et al. (2023). Increased windstorm damage under climate change over Norway. (external link)
• Jaison, Ashbin; Sorteberg, Asgeir; Michel, Clio et al. (2022). Modelling windstorm damage relations for Norway. (external link)
• Strand, Kjersti Opstad; Sundby, Svein; Vikebø, Frode Bendiksen et al. (2016). Investigating Hjort’s second hypothesis: How to predict the Northeast Arctic (NEA) cod who is “lost” for recruitment?. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Bernier, Natacha B.; Hemer, Mark; Mori, Nobuhito et al. (2024). Storm surges and extreme sea levels: Review, establishment of model intercomparison and coordination of surge climate projection efforts (SurgeMIP).. (external link)
• Christensen, Kai Håkon; Breivik, Øyvind; Dagestad, Knut-Frode et al. (2018). Short-term predictions of: Oceanic drift. (external link)
• van den Bremer, Ton S.; Breivik, Øyvind (2018). Stokes drift. (external link)

Report

• Gommenginger, Christine; Alvera-Azcarate, Aida; Baltazar Andersen, Ole et al. (2023). Report for Assessment: Earth Explorer 11 Candidate Mission Seastar. (external link)
• Nilsen, Frank; Fer, Ilker; Baumann, Till Martin et al. (2021). PC-2 Winter Process Cruise (WPC). (external link)
• Bilt, Willem van der; Bakke, Jostein; Smedsrud, Lars H. et al. (2019). Climate in Svalbard 2100 . (external link)
• Röhrs, Johannes; Sperrevik, Ann Kristin; Christensen, Kai Håkon et al. (2018). NorShelf: An ocean reanalysis and data-assimilative forecast model for the Norwegian Shelf Sea. (external link)

Errata

• Bonaduce, Antonio; Staneva, Joanna; Grayek, Sebastian et al. (2021). Correction to: Sea-state contributions to sea-level variability in the European Seas. (external link)
• Li, Qing; Fox-Kemper, Baylor; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2019). Corrigendum to “Statistical models of global Langmuir mixing” (Ocean Modelling (2017) 113 (95–114), (S1463500317300471), (10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.03.016)). (external link)

Website (informational material)

• Breivik, Øyvind (2021). Isflakspagaten (forskning.no). (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind (2021). Split on a diverging ice floe (sciencenorway.no) . (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind (2021). Pancakes in the waves - a field report from the wintery Barents Sea (sciencenorway.no). (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind (2021). Pannekaker med dønning attåt (forskning.no) . (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Seuthe, Lena (2021). A handful of suitcases teach us how waves and sea ice interact, and improve weather and climate models. (sciencenorway.no) . (external link)

Editorial

• Swail, Val; Alves, Jose-Henrique; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2019). The 1st International Workshop on Waves, Storm Surges and Coastal Hazards incorporating the 15th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Alves, Jose Henrique; Greenslade, Diana et al. (2017). The 14th international workshop on wave hindcasting and forecasting and the 5th coastal hazards symposium. (external link)
• Breivik, Øyvind; Swail, Val; Babanin, Alexander V. et al. (2015). The international workshop on wave hindcasting and forecasting and the coastal hazards symposium. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Strand, Kjersti Opstad; Vikebø, Frode Bendiksen; Breivik, Øyvind et al. (2019). Air-Sea Interaction in Biophysical Modeling. With focus on Northeast Arctic Cod. (external link)

Popular scientific article

• Strand, Kjersti Opstad; Breivik, Øyvind; Albretsen, Jon et al. (2017). Lofottorskevarselet: Enkelte rognbyger i Vestfjorden. (external link)

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See also ORCID Author ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2900-8458