Norwegian Polar Institute

Recent papers from Norwegian Polar Institute

1. Transpolar Drift and Atlantic inflow shape microbial biogeography and metabolic processes across the central Arctic Ocean2026
2. Digital Twins for Land Ice: connecting users across projects2026
3. Empirical evidence of overestimated Ku-band sea ice radar freeboards in satellite altimetry˜The œcryosphere · 2026
4. The remains of a small cetacean partially consumed by a polar bear observed on sea ice in the Labrador Sea, CanadaPolar Research · 2026
5. GoNorth 2023 Cruise ReportSeptentrio Reports · 2026
6. A decade of summer glacier fronts and calved glacier ice distribution in Kongs- and Krossfjorden, Svalbard, observed by Sentinel-1 extra wide swathRemote Sensing of Environment · 2026
7. Antarctic sea ice response to meltwater due to Antarctic ice sheet mass loss in a multi-model ensemble˜The œcryosphere · 2026
8. Effects of glacial loading in Svalbard on the VLBI scale realisationJournal of Geodesy · 2026
9. Contrasting nutritional proxies and methylmercury exposure in zooplankton delivered by little auks across Greenland and SvalbardEcological Indicators · 2026
10. Streamlining ringed seal (Pusa hispida) abundance estimation through Computer Vision modelsPolar Biology · 2026
11. Enhanced water mass mixing in Fram Strait in 2020 and elevated circulation timescales of Atlantic-derived waters in 2021 based on transient tracers I-129 and U-236Ocean science · 2026
12. Paraglacial lagoons of Svalbard: emerging ecosystems at the Arctic Land-Sea interfaceFrontiers in Marine Science · 2026
13. Statistical Analysis of Sea Ice Ridges in the Fram Strait 2006–2020 and Simulations of the Deepest KeelsJournal of Marine Science and Engineering · 2026
14. Toward an Improved Understanding of the Antarctic Coastal Zone and Its Contribution to Future Global Sea LevelReviews of Geophysics · 2026
15. Radiocarbon and Stable Carbon Isotopes Constrain Rapid Mixing and Deep Meltwater Influence on Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in an Arctic FjordJournal of Geophysical Research Oceans · 2026
16. Plastic Ingestion and Plastic-Related Chemicals in Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis): Exploration of Histopathological and Endocrine AlterationsEnvironmental Pollution · 2026
17. Highly Mobile Seabirds Reveal Areas of Conservation Importance Across the Atlantic OceanConservation Letters · 2026
18. Turbulence-driven nutrient supply sustains ice-algal growth in the Arctic: a modeling approach with CICE 6.1 coupled to Icepack 1.2, and with SIMBA 2.0Geoscientific model development · 2026
19. Microbial community structure in the firn associated with a ~1000 km transect of the Eastern Antarctic Ice SheetFEMS Microbiology Ecology · 2026
20. Sea-ice ridges – key yet understudied component of the coupled Arctic sea-ice systemPolar Science · 2026