Birgitte R. Furevik

Birgitte Rugaard Furevik received the M.Sc. degree in oceanography from the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in oceanography from the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, on the topic of wind retrieval from SAR and applications in the marginal ice zone and coastal regions. From 2002 to 2004, she had a Postdoctorate position with Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway, where she worked with microwave remote sensing for offshore wind resource estimation. Since 2005, she has been working as a Research Scientist with Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norways, where she is responsible for coastal wave modeling and wave forecasting using the wave model SWAN. Her research interests include surface waves, the marine boundary layer and model verification, wind profiles, coastal variability, and mesoscale.