Harald Yndestad
Background and activities
Field / work area
Professor emeritus in simulation and participates in the department's subject group for Digital Transform. The research interest is currently climate analysis and climate models. Competence Special competence: Digital Transform: System theory, swarm theory, smart cities. Climate models: Wavelet spectrum analysis of data series. Modeling the solar system's control of global climate change, Arctic climate change and the ecosystem in the Barents Sea.
Teaching: 1981-2016: Cybernetics, Systems Theory, Time Series, Intelligent Systems, Swarm Theory.
Positions: Elected principal for 4 election periods. Board member of the university college board, Forskerforbundet, Ingeniøruddanningsrådet, board member of Den Norske Dataforening, leader of Faglig Råd of Den Norske Dataforening, one of founders of IFIP wg 3.7 education management and more.
Research:
1970-1980 NDR-Kjeller: Development of computers, pattern recognition.
1980-1995 MRIH / HiÅ: Cybernetics in instrumentation.
1995-2005 HiÅ: Modeling of Arctic climate and marine ecosystems.
2005-2014 HiÅ / NTNU: Swarm-based modulation of smart cities in virtual landscapes. 2014-2020 NTNU: Modeling of the solar system, global climate and Arctic climate, climate change towards the year 2100.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2019) An agent-based approach for predicting patterns of pathogen transmission between aquaculture sites in the Norwegian fjords. Aquaculture. vol. 505.
- (2019) Optimal fish densities and farm locations in Norwegian fjords: a framework to use a PSO algorithm to optimize an agent-based model to simulate fish disease dynamics. Aquaculture International. vol. 27 (3).
- (2017) The influence of solar system oscillation on the variability of the total solar irradiance. New Astronomy. vol. 51.
- (2015) An agent-based model to simulate contagious disease dynamics in fish populations. International Journal of Simulation. Systems, Science and Technology. vol. 16 (3).
- (2014) Transmission dynamics of pancreas disease (PD) in a Norwegian fjord: Aspects of water transport, contact networks and infection pressure among salmon farms. Journal of Fish Diseases. vol. 37 (2).
- (2009) The influence of long tides on ecosystem dynamics in the Barents Sea. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. vol. 56 (21-22).
- (2008) Lunar nodal tide effects on variability of sea level, temperature, and salinity in the Faroe-Shetland Channel and the Barents Sea. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. vol. 55 (10).
- (2006) The influence of the lunar nodal cycle on Arctic climate. ICES Journal of Marine Science. vol. 63.
- (2004) The cause of Barents Sea biomass dynamics. Journal of Marine Systems. vol. 44 (1-2).
- (2003) The code of the long-term biomass cycles in the Barents Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. vol. 60.
- (2002) Systems Dynamics of Barents Sea Capelin. ICES Journal of Marine Science. vol. 59.
- (2001) Earth nutation influence on Northeast Arctic management. ICES Journal of Marine Science. vol. 58.
- (1999) Earth nutation influence on system dynamics of Northeast Arctic cod. ICES Journal of Marine Science. vol. 56.
- (1999) Earth nutation influence on temperature regime of the Barents Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. vol. 56.
Books
- (2015) Fragmentering eller mobilisering? : regional utvikling i Nordvest : Fjordantologien 2014. Forlag1. 2015. ISBN 978-82-8285-087-2.
- (2013) Quality modeling using general system theory. Forlag1. 2013. ISBN 978-82-8285-078-0.
- (2005) Skandinavisk fagkonferanse om Den Automatiske fabrikk. Springer Publishing Company. 2005. ISBN 0-387-24167-1.
- (1997) System Modeling of ITEM. Re-engeenering of educational processes. 1997. ISBN 0 412 79970 7.
- (1994) THE MANAGEMENT OF E-LEARNING. Springer. 1994. ISBN 9780749471668.
- (1980) Image enhancement in Real Time. Lund University Open Access. 1980. ISBN 91-44-17191-9.