Dmitry Divine

Aktuelle aktiviteter

Long-term (decadal to millennial) climate variability of the Arctic and Antarctic regions and tele- connections with lower latitudes;

Arctic Ocean variability derived from historical observations; Thermodynamic aspects of modeling of sea ice formation and destruction,  heat exchange in the atmosphere-ice-ocean system;  Remote sensing of sea ice and polynyas;

Quantification of past climate variability using proxy data, multiproxy climate reconstructions; Environmental isotopes in the hydrological cycle; Ice core interpretation, links between ice core data and atmospheric circulation;

Application of advanced mathematical/statistical methods in climate data analysis.

Karriere

Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
January 2012  – present:
Postdoctoral scientist
EU-funded project “Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS)”,
NFR project “Integrated Earth System Approach to Explore Natural Variability and Climate Sensitivity (EarthClim)”

University of Tromsø, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Tromsø, Norway
January 2009  – December 2011:
Researcher
NFR project 176872/V30 “The power of scale-space techniques and Gaussian Markov random fields applied in climatology and medicine”,

Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
January 2007  – December 2008:
Postdoctoral scientist
EU-funded project “European climate of the last millennium (Millennium)”, EU-funded project “ European project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA)”

University of Tromsø, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Tromsø, Norway
October 2004  – December 2006:
Postdoctoral scientist
NFR project 176872/V30 “New scale-space techniques with application to climate research and imaging”.

Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
June 2003  – October  2004:
Postdoctoral scientist
Project “Climatic interactions between the ocean, sea-ice and the atmosphere in the Barents Sea region over the past 150 years” (NFR project 148812/S30) ).

Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway/University of Bergen
Sep. 1999  – Jun.  2003:
Researcher
Project “Physical mechanisms of formation and destruction of fast ice in the western Arctic basin” (NFR project 1710/201).  This work led to the presentation of my Ph.D. thesis and award of my Ph.D. in November 2003

SPbSU, Laboratory of upper and middle planetary atmospheres, St.Petersburg, Russia
Sep. 1996  – Sep. 1999:
Research assistant

SPbSU, Laboratory of plasma physics, St.Petersburg, Russia
Sep. 1993  – Jun.  1996:
Research assistant

University of Uppsala, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
August  2010–February  2011:
Guest Scientist
A 6-month stay in Sweden in the framework of the NFR project “The power of scale-space techniques and Gaussian Markov random fields applied in climatology and medicine”.

Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
February  2008, August  2008:
Guest Scientist
Short-term collaborative visits in the framework of the “Millennium” project.

Weierstrass  Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany
January 2006  – July 2006:
Guest Scientist
A 6-month stay in Germany in the framework of the NFR project “New scale-space techniques with application to climate research and imaging”.

Education:

University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway
Ph.D. in physical oceanography, November 2003.

St.Petersburg State University, Faculty of Physics, St.Petersburg, Russia
M.S. in atmospheric physics, February 1998.

St.Petersburg State University, Faculty of Physics, St.Petersburg, Russia
B.Sc. in optics and plasma physics, June 1995.

Interesser og spesialfelt

Special skills:

Math skills:  Experience in advanced methods of data analysis (ANOVA,  EOF/PC analysis, spectral methods like wavelet,  MTM  and SSA analysis,  non-parametric smoothing techniques);  Advanced university courses on higher mathematics, higher algebra, programming, numerical methods, wavelet theory and applications, partial differential equations, image processing
Programming languages:  Matlab, Fortran, R, shell scripts, awkOperating Systems:  Linux, Unix, Windows
Data handling: HDF; experience in manipulating large data sets (e.g. ERA-40, HadSLP and ERSST, SSMR-SSM/I passive microwave satellite data)
Mapping and Plotting Software:  GMT, Origin, GNUplot, Grapher, XFig
Publishing and Other Software:  Latex, STATISTICA, CorelDraw, SFVegasVideo etc
Lab skills:  optical spectroscopy, radio engineering (from my B.Sc. and M.S. studies)

Referanser

Peer-reviewed publications
 
2012

Godtliebsen,  F., Holmström,  L., Miettinen,  A., Era¨st¨o,  P., Divine, D.V., and Koc, N., 2012: ” Pairwise Scale-Space Comparison of Time Series with Applicaton to Climate Research”, Accepted for publication  in Journal of Geophysical  Research  - Oceans.

Divine, D.V., Godtliebsen, F. and H. Rue, 2011: ”A modelling approach to assessing the timescale uncertainties in proxy series with chronological errors”.  Climate of the Past  Discussions, 8(1), 31-61, doi:10.5194/cpd-8-31-2012.

Schlosser, E., Anschutz, H., Isaksson, E., Martma, T., Divine, D.V., and O.-A. Nøst, 2012: ”Sur- face mass balance  and stable  oxygen isotope  ratios  from shallow  firn  cores  on Fimbulisen,  East Antarctica”.  Annals  of Glaciology, 53(60), doi: 10.3189/2012AoG60A102.

Moore,  J.C., Beaudon, E., Shichang Kang, Divine, D.V., Isaksson,  E., Pohjola,  V. and R. Van de Wal,  2011: ”Statistical  extraction  of volcanic sulphate  from nonpolar ice  cores”,  Journal  of Geophysical  Research-Atmospheres, 117, D03306, doi:10.1029/2011JD016592.

2011

Divine, D.V., Sjølte, J., Isaksson, E., Meijer, H.A.J., van de Wal, R.S.W., Martma, T., Pohjola, V. and F. Godtliebsen,  2011: “Modeling  the  regional  climate  and isotopic  composition  of Sval- bard precipitation using REMOiso model:  a comparison with available GNIP and ice core data”. Hydrological Processes,  25, 3748-3759, doi:10.1002/hyp.8100.
 
Divine,  D.V., Isaksson,  E., Martma,  T.,  Meijer,  H.A.J.,  Moore,  J., Pohjola,  V.,  van de Wal, R.S.W. and F. Godtliebsen,  2011: “Thousand  years  of winter  surface  air temperature  variations in Svalbard  and northern  Norway reconstructed  from ice  core  data”.   Polar  Research,  30, 7379, DOI:10.3402/polar.v30i0.7379.

Berner, K.S, Koc, N., Godtliebsen, F. and D.V. Divine, 2011: ”Holocene climate variability of the Norwegian Atlantic current during high and low solar insolation forcing”.  Palaeoceanography , 26, PA2220, doi:10.1029/2010PA002002.

Chenoweth,  M. and D.V. Divine, 2011: “Tropical  Cyclones  in the  Lesser  Antilles:  Descriptive
Statistics and Historical Variability in Cyclone Energy, 1638-2009”.  Climatic  Change,  in press.

Miettinen,  A.,  Divine,  D.V., Koc, N., Godtliebsen,  F., and I.R. Hall,  2011: “Multicentennial variability of the sea surface temperature gradient across the subpolar North Atlantic over the last
2.8 kyr”.  Journal of Climate,  in press, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00581.1.

2010

Miettinen,  A., Koc, N., Hall, I.R., Godtliebsen, F. and D.V. Divine, 2010: “North Atlantic sea surface temperatures and their relation to the North Atlantic Oscillation during the last 230 years”. Climate  Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0791-5.

Divine, D.V., Koc, N., Isaksson, E., Nielsen, S., Crosta, X. and F. Godtliebsen, 2010: “Holocene Antarctic  climate  variability  from ice  and marine  sediment  cores:  Insights  on ocean-atmosphere interaction”.  Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, 303-312, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.012.

2009

Divine, D.V., Isaksson, E., Kaczmarska, M., Godtliebsen, F., Oerter, H., Schlosser, E., Johnsen, S.J., van den Broeke, M. and R.S.W. van de Wal, 2009: ”Tropical Pacific - High Latitude South Atlantic Teleconnections as Seen in the δ18 O Variability in Antarctic Coastal Ice Cores”. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D11112, doi:10.1029/2008JD010475.

2008

Divine, D.V., Isaksson, E., Pohjola, V., Meijer, H., van de Wal, R.S.W., Martma, T., Moore, J., B. Sjo¨gren and F. Godtliebsen,  2008: ”Deuterium excess record from a small  Arctic  ice  cap”,  J. Geophys.  Res., 113, D19104, doi:10.1029/2008JD010076.

Divine, D.V., Polzehl, J. and F.Godtliebsen, 2008: “A propagation-separation approach to esti- mate the autocorrelation in a time-series”.  Nonlin.  Proc.  Geophys., 15, 591-599.

Chenoweth, M. and Divine, D.V., 2008: “A Document-based 317-Year Record of Tropical Cyclones
in the Lesser Antilles, 1690-2007”. Geochem.  Geophys.  Geosyst., 9, Q08013, doi:10.1029/2008GC002066.

Berner, K.S., Koc, N., Divine, D.V., Godtliebsen F. and M. Moros, 2008: ”Decadal-scale Holocene sea  surface  temperature  record  from the  sub-polar  North  Atlantic:   Relation  between  ice-rafting episodes, regional SSTs and solar forcing”. Palaeoceanography, 23, PA2210, doi:10.1029/2006PA001339.

Gerland, S., Renner, A.H.H., Godtliebsen, F., Divine, D.V. and T.B. Løyning, 2008: “Decrease of sea ice thickness at Hopen, Barents Sea, during 1966-2007”,  Geophys.   Res.   Lett.,  34, L10607, doi:10.1029/2007GL032716.

2007
 
Divine, D.V. and C. Dick, 2007: ”March through August ice edge positions in the Nordic Seas,
1750-2002”.  Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center.  Digital media.

Divine, D.V. and F. Godtliebsen, 2007: ”Bayesian modeling and significant features exploration in wavelet power spectra”, Nonlin.  Proc.  Geophys., 14, 79-88.

2006

Divine, D.V. and C. Dick, 2006: ”Historical variability of sea ice edge position in the Nordic Seas”,
J. Geophys.  Res., 111, C01001, doi:10.1029/2004JC002851.

2005 and earlier

Isaksson, E., Divine, D.V., Kohler, J., Martma, T., Pohjola, V., Motoyama, H. and O. Watanabe,
2005: ”Climate oscillations as recorded in Svalbard ice core δ18 O records between 1200-1997 AD”,
Geografiska Annaler,  87(A), 203-214.

Divine, D.V., Makshtas, A.P., Korsnes, R., Godtliebsen, F. and H. Svendsen, 2005: ”Atmospheric driven state transfer of shore-fast ice in the northeastern Kara Sea”, J. Geophys.  Res., 110(C09013).

Divine, D.V., Korsnes, R. and A.P. Makshtas, 2004: ”Temporal and spatial variations of shore-fast ice in the Kara Sea”, Cont.  Shelf Res., 24(15), 1717-1736.

Divine, D.V., Korsnes, R. and A.P. Makshtas, 2003:”Variability and climate sensitivity of fast ice extent in the north-eastern Kara Sea”, Polar  Res., 22(1), 27-34.

Divine, D.V., 2003: Peculiarities of shore-fast  ice formation  and destruction in the Kara  Sea, PhD
thesis, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Divine, D.V., 1998:Temperature  and a heat balance of the hollow cathode discharge in the externally cooled discharge  tube, M.Sc.thesis, SPb State University, Faculty of Physics, 1998.

Popular articles 

Divine, D.V. and E. Isaksson, 2011: ”Iskalde arkiv”, Klima, 2, 29-31 (In  Norwegian)

Divine, D.V. and E. Isaksson, 2008: ”Six hundred years of temperature variations in the North
Atlantic as inferred from the Svalbard ice core record”, Polar  Research  in Tromsø,  12-13.

Divine, D.V. and E. Isaksson, 2008: ”Iskjerner fra Svalbard avslører fortidens klima”, Klima, 5,
20-21 (In  Norwegian).

Papers in progress and unpublihsed manuscripts
 
Chenoweth, M. and D.V. Divine, 2011: “A 320-year AMM+SOI Index Reconstruction from His- torical Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Records”.  Revised and submitted  to Journal of Climate.

Divine, D.V., Isaksson, E., Kaczmarska, M., Karlof, L., Winther, J-G., Godtliebsen, F., Fischer, H., Fundel, F., Mayewski, P.A., van den Broeke, M. and R.S.W. van de Wal, 2006: ”MSA records from the Antarctic polar plateau suggest similar variability on century time-scales”.  Unpublished manuscript.

Divine, D.V. and R. Korsnes, 2003: ”Identification of shore-fast ice and flaw lead using SSM/I
surface brightness temperature data”, Unpublished manuscript.
 
Conference talks

Divine, D.V., Sjølte, J., Isaksson, E., Meijer, H.A.J., van de Wal, R.S.W., Martma, T., Pohjola,
 
(first author only)
 
V. and F. Godtliebsen, 2011: “Modeling the regional climate and isotopic composition of Svalbard
 
precipitation using REMOiso model:  a comparison with available GNIP and ice core data”.  IGS Nordic  Branch  meeting, 27-29 October, Oslo, Norway.

Divine, D.V., Berner,  K.S,  Koc, N. and Godtliebsen,  F., 2011: “Late  Holocene  abrupt  climate variations of the Norwegian Atlantic current in response to changing solar insolation“, EGU General Assembly 2011, 3-8 April,  Vienna, Austria.

Divine, D.V., Isaksson, E., Martma, T., Pohjola, V., Meijer, H. and R.S.W. van de Wal, Moore, J., and F. Godtliebsen, 2010: “Thousand yearlong reconstruction of winter air temperature variations in Longyerbyen,  Svalbard  Archipelago  and Vardo, northern  Norway, based on Svalbard  ice  core oxygen isotope data“, IGS Nordic  Branch  meeting, 28-30 October, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Divine, D.V., Isaksson, E., Martma, T., Pohjola, V., Meijer, H. and R.S.W. van de Wal, Moore, J., and F. Godtliebsen,  2010: “Reconstructing  the  past  climate  variability  in Svalbard  from the Lomonosovfonna  and Holtedahlfonna  δ18 O ice  core  records”,  EGU  General   Assembly 2010, 2-7
May, Vienna, Austria.

Divine, D.V., Isaksson,  E., Pohjola,  V., Martma,  T., Meijer,  H. and R.S.W. van de Wal, 2008: “Three ice core records from Svalbard to reveal important differences in regional climate development during the past 700 years”, AGU fall meeting, 15-19 December, San-Francisco, USA.

Divine, D.V., Koc, N., Isaksson, E., Godtliebsen, F., Crosta, X. and S. Nielsen, 2007: “Holocene Antarctic  climate  variability  from ice  and marine  sediment  cores:   insights  to  ocean-atmosphere interaction”, IUGG  XXIV General  Assembly, 2-13 July Perugia, Italy.

Divine, D.V. and C. Dick, 2005: ”Multidecadal variability of historical sea ice edge position in the
Nordic Seas”, 1st CliC Conference,  11-15 April,  Beijing, China.

Divine, D.V. and C. Dick, 2003: ”Historical variability of sea ice extent in the Nordic Seas”, Final
ACSYS Conference,  20-25 November, St.Petersburg, Russia.

Poster presentations and published abstracts
 
As a first author presented more than 20 posters at various conferences.

Field work

Svalbard 4-12 April 2008
Field campaign on the Lomonosovfonna and Nordenskjøld glacier
Project “Svalbard ice cores and climate variability”
Ice core drilling and snow sampling.

Greenland Sea 11-25 April 2001
Scientific cruise onboard R/V Lance
“Convection” program
CTD measurements, sea ice sampling, thermal imaging of pancake ice.
Experiment in the ice tank

HSVA, Hamburg, Germany 11-26 June 2001
“Convection” program
Thermal imaging of frazil and pancake ice formation.

Reviewer

National Science Foundation, Nature Geoscience, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, Annals of Glaciology, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, European Physical Journal, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Environmental Science and Technology, Polar Geography

Summer schools

4th  International NCCR climate summer school, 2005: “From the Holocene to the Anthropocene, climate of the last 1000 years”, 27 August - 2 September, Grindelwald, Switzerland
7th  International NCCR climate summer school, 2008: “Key challenges in climate variability and
change”, 31 August - 5 September, Monte Verita, Switzerland

Teaching

Short course on wavelets and their applications,  given at the University of Tromsø, 8 hours, Fall 2004.
Co-supervise M.S.(graduated in October 2010), presently Ph.D. student Andrey Popov from St.Petersburg State University, Russia in the framework of the joint Norwegian-Russian FRAM Arctic laboratory initiative.
Assist in supervising Ph.D. student Stig Uteng (UiTø, MatStat).
Popular lectures (2 hours each) given to students of the Faculty of Geography, St.Petersburg State University, Russia, in 2007 and 2011.

Languages

Russian (native)
English (fluent)
Norwegian (fluent)