Stein Rune Karlsen
Senior Researcher
skar@norceresearch.no
+47 934 19 904
Forskningsparken Tromsø, Sykehusvn 23, 9019 Tromsø
Division
Energy & Technology
Research Groups
Regional Climate and Climate Services
More information about Stein
Projects
Publications
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Academic articleRecord early snow disappearance in 2020 and 2022 across central Svalbard– Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (RSASE) 2025
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Research reportGLORIA Norge 2024: Overvåkning av vegetasjon, vekstsesong og isbre– NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2025
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Academic literature reviewThe changing face of the Arctic: four decades of greening and implications for tundra ecosystems– Frontiers in Environmental Science 2025
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Research reportNOAA Arctic Report Card 2024:Tundra Greenness– NOAA in the Arctic 2024
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Academic literature reviewNordic boreo-arctic lands under rapid climatic change: A review of recent and future trends and extreme events– Earth-Science Reviews 2024
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Academic articleGreening of Svalbard– Science of the Total Environment 2024
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Research reportGLORIA Norge 2023: Overvåkning av vegetasjon, vekstsesong og isbre– NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2024
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Academic literature reviewReviews and syntheses: Remotely sensed optical time series for monitoring vegetation productivity– Biogeosciences 2024
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Research reportKartlegging og overvåking av reinbeiter– NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2023
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Academic articleThe northernmost hyperspectral FLoX sensor dataset for monitoring of high-Arctic tundra vegetation phenology and Sun-Induced Fluorescence (SIF)– Data in Brief 2023
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Academic articleHigh seasonal overlap in habitat suitability in a non-migratory High Arctic ungulate– Global Ecology and Conservation 2023
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Academic articleBVLOS UAV missions for vegetation mapping in maritime Antarctic– Frontiers in Environmental Science 2023
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Research reportGLORIA Norge 2022: Overvåkning av vegetasjon og vekstsesong– NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2023
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Academic articleChanges in Onset of Vegetation Growth on Svalbard, 2000–2020– Remote Sensing 2022
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Academic articleDet arktiske Finnmark – ein bioklimatisk studie av område nord for den polare skoggrensa– Blyttia : Norsk botanisk forenings tidsskrift 2022
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Academic articleMulti-Sensor Analysis of Snow Seasonality and a Preliminary Assessment of SAR Backscatter Sensitivity to Arctic Vegetation: Limits and Capabilities– Remote Sensing 2022
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Research reportGloria Norge 2021: Overvåkning av vegetasjon og vekstsesong– NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2022
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Conference lectureTime-series of cloud-free Sentinel-2 NDVI data used in mapping the onset of growth of central Spitsbergen, Svalbard– SIOS Online Conference on "Earth Observation (EO) and Remote Sensing (RS) applications in Svalbard" 2021
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Research reportGLORIA Norge 2020: Overvåkning av vegetasjon og vekstsesong– NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2021
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Academic articleTime-series of cloud-free sentinel-2 NDVI data used in mapping the onset of growth of central Spitsbergen, Svalbard– Remote Sensing 2021
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Academic articleA compilation of snow cover datasets for svalbard: A multi-sensor, multi-model study– Remote Sensing 2021
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Academic articleSIOS’s Earth Observation (EO), Remote Sensing (RS), and operational activities in response to COVID-19– Remote Sensing 2021
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Conference lectureSentinel-2 based mapping of the growing season (phenology) in central parts of Svalbard.– SIOS Online Conference on Remote Sensing (RS) and Geoinformation (GI) applications in Svalbard 2020
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Academic articleA 20-Year MODIS-Based Snow Cover Dataset for Svalbard and Its Link to Phenological Timing and Sea Ice Variability– Remote Sensing 2020
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Non-fiction chapterSentinel satellite-based mapping of plant productivity in relation to snow duration and time of green-up (GROWTH)– 2020
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Research reportGLORIA Norge 2019. Overvåkning av vegetasjon, vekstsesong og bremåling– NORCE Norwegian Research Centre 2020
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Research reportBruk av Sentinel-2 satellittdata innen forvaltning av Øvre Dividalen nasjonalpark og Dividalen landskapsvernområde. Studieområde Havgavuopmi. (7/2019)– Norut 2019
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Conference lectureSentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 to monitor vegetation phenology in mountain regions– Living Planet Symposium 2019
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Conference lectureEnvironmental forests beyond the Arctic treeline in Norway– International Mountain Conference 2019 (IMC2019) 2019
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Academic articleIsotope ecology detects fine-scale variation in Svalbard reindeer diet: implications for monitoring herbivory in the changing Arctic– Polar Biology 2019
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Conference lectureSeasonal dynamics of permafrost landscapes: InSAR ground displacements and controlling factors documented by in situ and Sentinel-1/-2 remote sensing data– AGU Fall Meeting 2019
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Academic articleTundra greenness– Bulletin of The American Meteorological Society - (BAMS) 2019
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Academic articleExploiting Time Series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Imagery to Detect Meadow Phenology in Mountain Regions– Remote Sensing 2019
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Research reportGLORIA Norge 2018 – overvåkning av vegetasjon og vekstsesong– NIBIO 2019
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Conference lectureProximal sensing phenology data to validate Sentinel-2 in cold regions– 2st Sentinel-2 Validation Team Meeting 2018
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Conference lectureSAR and Optical satellite sensors to detect phenology in Alpine areas– Phenology 2018. One Planet, Two Hemispheres, Many Regions. 2018
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Conference lectureUse of phenocams in arctic and alpine parts of Norway.– Phenology 2018. One Planet, Two Hemispheres, Many Regions. 2018
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Academic articleConsequences of Future Expansion at the Arctic Treeline in Northernmost Norway.– Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology: B 2018
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Academic chapterUAV based mapping of grassland yields for forage production in northern Europe– 2018
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Non-fiction chapterTundra greenness– 2018
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Research reportAre Svalbard plants prepared for Climatic Change? (3/2018)– Norut 2018
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Research reportGLORIA Norge 2017 – overvåkning av vegetasjon og vekstsesong– NIBIO 2018
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Academic articleA new NDVI measure that overcomes data sparsity in cloud-covered regions predicts annual variation in ground-based estimates of high arctic plant productivity– Environmental Research Letters 2018
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Conference lectureConsequences of future expansion at the arctic treeline in northernmost Norway– VIII International Agriculture Symposium "AGROSYM 2017" 2017
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Academic articleDisentangling the coupling between sea ice and tundra productivity– Scientific Reports 2017
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Academic articleBioclimatic effects on different mountain birch populations in Fennoscandia– Climate Research (CR) 2017
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Academic articleCorrection: Anderson, H.B. et al. Using Ordinary Digital Cameras in Place of Near-Infrared Sensors to Derive Vegetation Indices for Phenology Studies of High Arctic Vegetation. Remote Sens. 2016, 8, 847– Remote Sensing 2017
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Research reportGLORIA Norge 2016 – overvåkning av vegetasjon og vekstsesong– NIBIO 2017
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Conference lectureLandscape transitions from tundra/mountain heaths to forests the last century in northern Norway and the impact on reindeer husbandry: The likelihood for spreading climate sensitive infections (CSIs) in the future– Nordic Conference on Reindeer Husbandry Research 2017
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Conference lectureDetection of Browning events using Sentinel-2, World-View 2/3 and UAV: Examples from Lofoten and Svalbard– Event drivers of Arctic Browning 2017
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Academic articleUnderstanding the drivers of extensive plant damage in boreal and Arctic ecosystems: Insights from field surveys in the aftermath of damage– Science of the Total Environment 2017
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Academic articleFuture forest distribution on Finnmarksvidda, North Norway– Climate Research (CR) 2017
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Conference lectureMultiscale mapping of the seasonal dynamics of the High Arctic archipelago of Svalbard– Living Planet Symposium 2016 2016
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Conference lectureUAV for monitoring Antarctic ecosystems– 36th EARSeL Symposium 2016
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Conference lectureVegetation mapping on King George Island using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)– SCAR Open Science Conference 2016
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Conference lectureUltra-high resolution baseline vegetation map of the forefield of the Sphinx glacier, Admiralty Bay area, King Gorge Island– SCAR Open Science Conference 2016
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Conference lectureA novel approach to monitoring the impact of climate change on Antarctic ecosystems– SCAR Open Science Conference 2016
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Conference lectureChanging Antarctica – new possibilities of observations with UAV– Impact of climate change and pollution on vegetation distribution and condition in the temperate, boreal, alpine and polar zones 2016
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Conference lectureVegetation mapping using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) on King George Island, Maritime Antarctic– Impact of climate change and pollution on vegetation distribution and condition in the temperate, boreal, alpine and polar zones 2016
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Conference lectureVegetation map of the forefield of retreating glacier, Admiralty Bay area, King Gorge Island (Maritime Antarctic)– Impact of climate change and pollution on vegetation distribution and condition in the temperate, boreal, alpine and polar zones 2016
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Conference lectureRapid regional changes in maritime Antarctic ecosystem – MONICA project - goals, results and conclusions– Impact of climate change and pollution on vegetation distribution and condition in the temperate, boreal, alpine and polar zones 2016
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Conference lectureProcessing a clear-sky time-series of Sentinel-2A data of central parts of Svalbard to monitor seasonal changes in vegetation– The 1st Sentinel-2 Validation Team Meeting 2016
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Conference lectureDisentangling the mechanisms of the coupling between sea ice and tundra productivity: cold air advection vs. arctic amplification.– AGU 2016
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Academic articlePreliminary study on nesting Adélie penguins disturbance by unmanned aerial vehicles.– CCAMLR Science 2016
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Academic articleSnow season variability in a boreal-Arctic transition area monitored by MODIS data– Environmental Research Letters 2016
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Research reportGLORIA Norge – årsrapport for 2013. Makroflater på Arnøya og satellittbasert overvåkning av vekstsesongen i Midt-Norge– NIBIO 2016
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Conference lectureChanges in growing season productivity of Northern vegetation inferred from long-term remote sensing data.– Impact of climate change and pollution on vegetation distribution and condition in the temperate, boreal, alpine and polar zones 2016
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Research reportNorsk fjellnatur - Fra kyst til innland, fra sør til nord. GLORIA-NORGE, et overvåkingsprogram for fjellvegetasjon – årsrapport for 2014– NIBIO 2016
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Academic articleUsing ordinary digital cameras in place of near-infrared sensors to derive vegetation indices for phenology studies of high arctic vegetation– Remote Sensing 2016
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Academic articleChanges in greening in the high Arctic: Insights from a 30 year AVHRR max NDVI dataset for Svalbard– Environmental Research Letters 2016
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Academic articleChanges in growing season duration and productivity of northern vegetation inferred from long-term remote sensing data– Environmental Research Letters 2016
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Research reportMonitoring of plant productivity in relation to climate on Svalbard. (7/2016)– Norut 2016
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Popular scientific articleBruk av ubemannete fly (UAS) i miljøovervåking på Svalbard– Ottar 2016
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Conference lectureMODIS-based mapping of the growing season and plant production in relation to climate on Svalbard for the 2000-2014 period– Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2015
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Conference lectureSea ice-induced cold air advection as a mechanism controlling tundra primary productivity– AGU Fall Meeting 2015
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Academic chapterMonitoring human and climate change‐induced plant stress in the Nordic Arctic Region and Svalbard using remote sensing and field surveys– 2015
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Academic chapterDividalen - uberørt natur eller eldgammelt kulturlandskap?– 2015
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Academic articleThe use of quantitative models to assess long-term climate–vegetation dynamics – A case study from the northern Scandinavian Mountains– The Holocene 2015
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Research reportFinnmarksvidda – kartlegging og overvåking av reinbeiter – status 2013– Norut 2014
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Research reportOvervåkning av vekstsesongen med automatiske kamera i Adventdalen, Svalbard– Norut 2014
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Conference lectureOnset of the growing season and annual plant production in relation to climate on Svalbard, mapped by MODIS data– The 13th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium 2014
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Conference lectureUAV for monitoring of indicator species on Antarctic protected areas– 34th Symposium of the European-Association-of Remote-Sensing-Laboratories (EARSeL) 2014
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Conference lectureRemote sensing techniques for monitoring the King George Island– 35th Polar Symposium: Diversity and state of polar ecosystems 2014
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Research reportEndringer i start på vekstsesongen på Svalbard i relasjon til klima. (3/2014)– Norut 2014
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Popular scientific articleEn artsrik flora– Ottar 2014
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Research reportOvervåking av vinterbeiter i Indre Finnmark 2013 Resultater fra feltrutene– Norsk institutt for naturforskning 2014
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Conference lectureVegetation and ecosystem transformation on Finnmarksvidda, Northern Norway, due to reindeer grazing pressure– 13th Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium 2014
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Academic articleSpatial and temporal variability in the onset of the growing season on svalbard, arctic Norway - Measured by MODIS-NDVI satellite data– Remote Sensing 2014
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Conference lectureMonitoring man- and climate change‐induced plant stress in the Nordic Arctic Region and Svalbard using remote sensing and field surveys– Assessing vulnerability of flora and fauna in polar areas 2014
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Conference lectureMODIS and Landsat 8 based mapping of the growing season on Svalbard in relation to climate and plant production– ArcticBiomass - Workshop 2014
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Conference lectureVegetation and ecosystem transformation due to reindeer grazing on Finnmarksvidda, Northern Norway– ArcticBiomass - Workshop 2014
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Conference lectureField- and satellite-based monitoring of trends in biomass of reindeer lichen heaths in Finnmarksvidda, Hardangervidda and North-America– ArcticBiomass - Workshop 2014
