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| Hans Olav Hygen. Photo: Bård Gudim |
Title: Senior scientist
E-mail: hans.olav.hygen@met.no
Postal address: P.O.Box 43 Blindern, NO-0313 Oslo
Phone: (+47) 2296 3208
CV: http://tinyurl.com/CVHygen
Research Interests:
- Climate variations and impact of climate variations on local environment and communities.
- Practical applications of meteorology, especially small scale meteorology.
- Climate information, both direct communications with users, and developing new web-based tools for climate information.
Research projects:
- InfrRisk: InfraRisk is concerned with the occurrence of extreme weather events (EWE) and the related threats to infrastructure in Norway.
- NORADAPT: Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in Norway
- CAVIAR:Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions
- ACTOR: Arctic Climate Change, Tourism, and Outdoor Recreation
- GeoExtreme: Geohazards in Norway under a changing climate (2005-2009)
- seNorge (Norge nå!) (2005-2007)
- Klima2000: Klimatilpasning av bygningskonstruksjoner
- eKlima
Employment:
- 2002 - Senior Scientist at Norwegian Meteorological Institute
- 2001 Post. Doc. at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Education:
- 2001 Dr. Scient., Geophysical institute, University of Bergen
- 1997 Cand. Scient., Geophysical institute, University of Bergen
Recent publications:
- Engen-Skaugen, Torill, Førland, Eirik J., Hygen, Hans Olav og Benestad, Rasmus 2010, Klimaprojeksjoner frem til 2050 - Grunnlag for sårbarhetsanalyse i utvalgte kommuner (pdf-file).
- Dagrun Vikhamar-Schuler, Eirik J. Førland, Inger Hanssen-Bauer, Hans Olav Hygen, Øyvind Nordli and Pavel Svyashchennikov, 2010, Arctic communities and reindeer herders vulnerability to changing climate: Climate conditions in northern Eurasia since year 1900 (pdf-file).
- Maano Aunapuu,1, Jonas Dahlgren,1, Tarja Oksanen,1, Doris Grellmann, Lauri Oksanen, Johan Olofsson, Ullar Rammul, Michael Schneider, Bernt Johansen, and Hans Olav Hygen, 2008 Spatial Patterns and Dynamic Responses of Arctic Food Webs Corroborate the Exploitation Ecosystems Hypothesis (EEH), The American Naturalist
- Lisø, K.R., Kvande, T., Hygen, H. O., Thue, J.V, Harstveit, K., 2006, A frost decay exposure index for porous, mineral building materials, Building and envirnoment
- Lisø, K.R. , Hygen, H. O., Kvande, T., and Jan Vincent Thue, 2006, Decay potential in wood structures using climate data, Building research and information
- Meløysund, V., Lisø, K.R. and Hygen, H.O., 2005: Effects of wind exposure on roof snow loads, Journal of structural engineering
- Lisø, K.R., Kvande, T., Hygen, H. O., Jan Vincent Thue, J. V. and Harstveit, K., 2005: Frost decay exposure index for porous, mineral building materials, Building and Environment
