The main objective of the Norwegian Customs is to prevent unlawful imports and exports and ensure correct declarations and payment of customs and excises duties. By means of its controls the Norwegian Customs reveals irregularities and breaches of the rules. As the controls, such as company audits, are costly, not all firms are controlled. Hence, the controls only reveal parts of the unpaid and undeclared duties and taxes.

Detection of avalanches from satellite

AvalRS aims at demonstrating that such a service is possible and that it will provide decision support during avalanche imposed road closures, and to help validate the issued avalanche forecasts. Overview over the affected problem area, specifically the length of the avalanche-affected road section and the volume of snow on the road, are essential for the authorities during road closures.

Our aim is to estimate the climate sensitivity by modeling the relationship between (estimates of) radiative forcing and measurements of hemispheric temperatures and global ocean heat content in post-industrial time. Complex general circulation models are computationally expensive for this purpose, and we use instead a simple climate model of reduced complexity. This climate model is deterministic, and we combine it with a stochastic model to do properly inference.

Our combined model can be written as

yt = mt(xt-,theta) + f(zt) + nt

NAV gjennomfører bedriftsundersøkelsen to ganger årlig for å få en oversikt over behovet for arbeidskraft innen ulike næringer. Et utvalg bedrifter blir blant annet spurt om de har problemer med å rekruttere arbeidskraft, hvilke yrker bedriften mangler arbeidskraft og hvorvidt dette skyldes at det ikke har vært et tilstrekkelig antall kvalifiserte søkere. Basert på svarene fra utvalget kan mangelen i Norge estimeres. Dette gjøres ved hjelp av en matematisk modell utviklet ved NR. Modellen estimerer mangelen på arbeidskraft fordelt på geografiske områder, næringer og de ulike yrkene.