Øyvind Breivik

Professor, Professor II

E-mailOyvind.Breivik@uib.no
Phone+47-91102707
Visitor Address
Allegaten 70

5007 Bergen

Room
237
Postal Address
Postboks 7803

5020 Bergen

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)

Academic article

Show author(s) (2024). Wave measurements using open source ship mounted ultrasonic altimeter and motion correction system during the one ocean circumnavigation. Ocean Engineering.
Show author(s) (2024). Wave Modulation in a Strong Tidal Current and Its Impact on Extreme Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 131-151.
Show author(s) (2024). Rogue waves: Results of the ExWaMar project. Ocean Engineering.
Show author(s) (2024). Bias correction of operational storm surge forecasts using Neural Networks. Ocean Modelling. 1-21.

Show author(s) (2023). Statistical and Dynamical Characteristics of Extreme Wave Crests Assessed with Field Measurements from the North Sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 509-531.
Show author(s) (2023). Ocean wave tracing v.1: a numerical solver of the wave ray equations for ocean waves on variable currents at arbitrary depths. Geoscientific Model Development. 6515-6530.
Show author(s) (2023). Marine Plastic Drift from the Mekong River to Southeast Asia. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE). 19 pages.
Show author(s) (2023). ChemicalDrift 1.0: an open-source Lagrangian chemical-fate and transport model for organic aquatic pollutants. Geoscientific Model Development. 2477-2494.
Show author(s) (2023). A general framework to obtain seamless seasonal–directional extreme individual wave heights—Showcase Ekofisk. Ocean Engineering. 1-11.
Show author(s) (2023). A dataset of direct observations of sea ice drift and waves in ice. Scientific Data. 17 pages.

Show author(s) (2022). The Redistribution of Air–Sea Momentum and Turbulent Kinetic Energy Fluxes by Ocean Surface Gravity Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 1483-1496.
Show author(s) (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. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans.
Show author(s) (2022). Resolving regions known for intense wave–current interaction using spectral wave models: A case study in the energetic flow fields of Northern Norway. Ocean Modelling. 17 pages.
Show author(s) (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. Geosciences. 25 pages.
Show author(s) (2022). On the Groupiness and Intermittency of Oceanic Whitecaps. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 23 pages.
Show author(s) (2022). NORA3. Part II: Precipitation and Temperature Statistics in Complex Terrain Modeled with a Nonhydrostatic Model. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 1549-1572.
Show author(s) (2022). Global ocean wave fields show consistent regional trends between 1980 and 2014 in a multi-product ensemble. Communications Earth & Environment.
Show author(s) (2022). Estimating a mean transport velocity in the marginal ice zone using ice-ocean prediction systems. The Cryosphere. 2103-2114.
Show author(s) (2022). A Nonparametric, Data-Driven Approach to Despiking Ocean Surface Wave Time Series. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 71-90.

Show author(s) (2021). The impact of surface currents on the wave climate in narrow fjords. Ocean Modelling. 1-13.
Show author(s) (2021). Nora3: A nonhydrostatic high-resolution hindcast of the north sea, the Norwegian sea, and the Barents sea. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 1443-1464.
Show author(s) (2021). Modelling wave growth in narrow fetch geometries: The white-capping and wind input formulations. Ocean Modelling. 1-13.
Show author(s) (2021). Intense Interactions between Ocean Waves and Currents Observed in the Lofoten Maelstrom. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 3461-3476.
Show author(s) (2021). Effects of wave-induced processes in a coupled wave-ocean model on particle transport simulations. Water. 20 pages.

Show author(s) (2020). Sea-state contributions to sea-level variability in the European Seas. Ocean Dynamics. 1-23.
Show author(s) (2020). Long-Term Statistics of Observed Bubble Depth Versus Modeled Wave Dissipation. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Space Physics. 14 pages.
Show author(s) (2020). Evaluating the leeway coefficient of ocean drifters using operational marine environmental prediction systems. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 1943-1954.
Show author(s) (2020). Comparison of wind speed and wave height trends from twentieth-century models and satellite altimeters. Journal of Climate. 611-624.
Show author(s) (2020). An open source, versatile, affordable waves in ice instrument for scientific measurements in the Polar Regions. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 11 pages.
Show author(s) (2020). A combined stokes drift profile under swell and wind sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 2819-2833.

Show author(s) (2019). Wave effects on coastal upwelling and water level. Ocean Modelling. 1-16.
Show author(s) (2019). The importance of wind forcing in fjord wave modelling . Ocean Dynamics. 57-75.
Show author(s) (2019). SEASTAR: A Mission to Study Ocean Submesoscale Dynamics and Small-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Processes in Coastal, Shelf and Polar Seas. Frontiers in Marine Science.
Show author(s) (2019). Robustness and uncertainties in global multivariate wind-wave climate projections. Nature Climate Change. 711-718.
Show author(s) (2019). Ocean-wave-atmosphere interaction processes in a fully coupled modelling system. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 1-23.
Show author(s) (2019). NORA10EI: A revised regional atmosphere-wave hindcast for the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. International Journal of Climatology. 1-27.
Show author(s) (2019). Global wind speed and wave height extremes derived from long-duration satellite records. Journal of Climate. 109-126.
Show author(s) (2019). Global Stokes drift climate under the RCP8.5 scenario. Journal of Climate. 1677-1691.
Show author(s) (2019). A novel approach to computing super observations for probabilistic wave model validation. Ocean Modelling. 1-10.
Show author(s) (2019). A comparison of Langmuir turbulence parameterizations and key wave effects in a numerical model of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. Ocean Modelling. 76-97.

Show author(s) (2018). Wind and wave extremes from atmosphere and wave model ensembles. Journal of Climate. 8819-8842.
Show author(s) (2018). Wave modelling in coastal and inner seas. Progress in Oceanography. 164-233.
Show author(s) (2018). Turbulence Scaling Comparisons in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 2172-2191.
Show author(s) (2018). Subsurface maxima in buoyant fish eggs indicate vertical velocity shear and spatially limited spawning grounds. Limnology and Oceanography. 1239-1251.
Show author(s) (2018). OpenDrift v1.0: A generic framework for trajectory modelling. Geoscientific Model Development. 1405-1420.
Show author(s) (2018). Climate change and safe design of ship structures. Ocean Engineering. 226-237.
Show author(s) (2018). Analysis of Rogue Waves in North-Sea In-Situ Surface Wave Data. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering.

Show author(s) (2017). The ocean version of the Lagrangian analysis tool LAGRANTO. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 1723-1741.
Show author(s) (2017). The "shallow-waterness" of the wave climate in European coastal regions. Ocean Science. 589-597.
Show author(s) (2017). Statistical models of global Langmuir mixing. Ocean Modelling. 95-114.
Show author(s) (2017). Projected changes in significant wave height toward the end of the 21st century: Northeast Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 3394-3403.
Show author(s) (2017). Efficient bootstrap estimates for tail statistics. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 357-366.
Show author(s) (2017). Effects of wave-induced forcing on a circulation model of the North Sea. Ocean Dynamics. 81-101.

Show author(s) (2016). Surface wave effects on water temperature in the Baltic Sea: simulations with the coupled NEMO-WAM model. Ocean Dynamics. 917-930.
Show author(s) (2016). Modeling whitecap fraction with a wave model. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 887-894.
Show author(s) (2016). Measurement and modeling of oil slick transport. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 7759-7775.
Show author(s) (2016). A Stokes drift approximation based on the Phillips spectrum. Ocean Modelling. 49-56.

Show author(s) (2015). Surface wave effects in the NEMO ocean model: Forced and coupled experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 2973-2992.
Show author(s) (2015). Marine wind and wave height trends at different ERA-interim forecast ranges. Journal of Climate. 819-837.
Show author(s) (2015). Comparison of HF radar measurements with Eulerian and Lagrangian surface currents. Ocean Dynamics. 679-690.

Show author(s) (2014). Wind and wave extremes over the world oceans from very large ensembles. Geophysical Research Letters. 5122-5131.
Show author(s) (2014). The wind sea and swell waves climate in the Nordic seas. Ocean Dynamics. 223-240.

Show author(s) (2013). Wave Extremes in the Northeast Atlantic from Ensemble Forecasts. Journal of Climate.

Show author(s) (2012). Wave extremes in the Northeast Atlantic. Journal of Climate. 1529-1543.
Show author(s) (2012). The leeway of shipping containers at different immersion levels. Ocean Dynamics. 741-752.
Show author(s) (2012). BAKTRAK: Backtracking drifting objects using an iterative algorithm with a forward trajectory model. Ocean Dynamics. 239-252.
Show author(s) (2012). A short-term predictive system for surface currents from a rapidly deployed coastal HF radar network. Ocean Dynamics. 725-740.

Show author(s) (2011). The full life cycle of a polar low over the Norwegian Sea observed by three research aircraft flights. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 1659-1673.
Show author(s) (2011). A high-resolution hindcast of wind and waves for The North Sea, The Norwegian Sea and The Barents Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans.

Show author(s) (2009). Nearshore wave forecasting and hindcasting by dynamical and statistical downscaling. Journal of Marine Systems.

Report

Show author(s) (2023). Report for Assessment: Earth Explorer 11 Candidate Mission Seastar. .

Show author(s) (2021). PC-2 Winter Process Cruise (WPC). .

Show author(s) (2019). Climate in Svalbard 2100 . 1/2019. 1/2019. .

Show author(s) (2018). NorShelf: An ocean reanalysis and data-assimilative forecast model for the Norwegian Shelf Sea. 4. 4. .

Lecture

Show author(s) (2024). Climatology of low-level jets in Scandinavia for offshore wind applications and a variety of datasets.

Show author(s) (2022). Bias Correction of Operational Storm Surge Forecasts Using Neural Networks.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2016). Investigating Hjort’s second hypothesis: How to predict the Northeast Arctic (NEA) cod who is “lost” for recruitment?

Editorial

Show author(s) (2019). The 1st International Workshop on Waves, Storm Surges and Coastal Hazards incorporating the 15th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting. Ocean Dynamics. 513-517.

Show author(s) (2017). The 14th international workshop on wave hindcasting and forecasting and the 5th coastal hazards symposium. Ocean Dynamics. 551-556.

Show author(s) (2015). The international workshop on wave hindcasting and forecasting and the coastal hazards symposium. Ocean Dynamics. 761-771.