Lars-Anders Breivik

Lars-Anders Breivik received the M.Sc. degree in meteorology from the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, in 1987. As a Research Scientist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, from 1988, his main work has been on utilization of satellite data, in particular ocean wind and wave data, in numerical weather and wave prediction models. In the last ten years, the main scientific focus has been on extracting sea ice information from satellite data and utilization of this in ocean and atmosphere models and climate applications. He is currently Head of the Section for Ocean and Ice at the Research and Development Department at Norwegian Meteorological Institute.