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The Baltic Sea Basin on 1 April 2004, as seen from the SeaWiFS satellite (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, GeoEye).
BALTEX Science Plan 2003-2012 (pdf)
BALTEX Implementation Strategy 2003-2012 (pdf)
BALTEX Phase II Flyer (pdf)
BALTEX Phase II Revised Objectives (pdf)
News/Announcements
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BALTEX (the Baltic Sea Experiment) is a Regional Hydroclimate Project (RHP) within the Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project (GEWEX) of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).
The research focus of BALTEX Phase I (1993-2002) was primarily on the hydrological cycle and the exchange of energy between the atmosphere and the surface of the Earth, as they control and regulate the climate in a fundamental manner. BALTEX Phase II (2003-2012) has extended the scope of research to regional climate change, water management and biogeochemical cycles and transport processes in the regional
Earth system. The study region of BALTEX is the
Baltic Sea
and its hydrological drainage basin, which constitutes a unique European water basin, creating specific demands on models and scientific concepts.
NEWS
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On Monday 10 June 2013, the BALTEX successor programme Baltic Earth was launched in the presence of H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden at the 7th Study Conference on BALTEX in Borgholm on Öland.
Launch of the new Baltic Earth programme in the presence of H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden. To the right of His Majesty is Colonel Per H. Nilsson, Lena Häll Eriksson, Director General Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, SMHI (Sweden), Stefan Carlsson, County Administrative Board Kalmar, Mikhail Durkin, HELCOM, and Markus Meier, SMHI and Baltic Earth Interims Steering Group chair; to the left are Anders Omstedt, University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and BALTEX Steering Group co-chair, Sirje Keevallik, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) and BALTEX Steering Group co-chair, Jan Erici, Chair of City Council Borgholm Municipality, Ian A. Nicholls, Linnaeus University Kalmar, and Hans von Storch, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (Germany) and BALTEX Steering Group co-chair.
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Markus Meier, SMHI and Baltic Earth Interims Steering Group chair (left), Marcus Reckermann, Head of the International BALTEX Secretariat at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, and Anna Rutgersson, Uppsala University and co-chair of the Baltic Earth Interims Steering Group uncover the new Baltic Earth logo.
Photos: Marcus Reckermann (upper) and Karl Nilsson (middle and lower).
Read more on Baltic Earth and the 7th Study Conference here very soon.
Link to the Royal Website here...
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 BALTEX Newsletter 15 (February 2013) now
available here...
Highlight: The BALTEX successor programme will be launched in June at the 7th Study Conference...
HELCOM Workshop on Climate Change
Warnemünde, 5-6 February 2013. See conclusions here...
Download presentations here...
AMBIO Special Issue
ECOSUPPORT – Different Ecosystem Drivers Under Future Climate Scenarios in the Baltic Sea
now available here...
SPRINGER DOWNLOADS TEMPORARILY NOT AVAILABLE, DOWNLOAD PAPERS HERE...
New BALTEX Publications here
New Books
Pastuszak, M., Igras, J. (Eds.)
Temporal and spatial differences in emission of nitrogen and phosphorus from the Polish territory to the Baltic Sea
National Marine Fisheries Institute,
Institute of Soil Science
and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute
Fertilizer Research Institute, Gdynia, 2012. 448 p. ISBN 978-8361650-08-9
Reckermann, M., K. Brander, B.R. MacKenzie, A. Omstedt (Eds.)
Climate Impacts on the Baltic Sea: From Science to Policy
Series: Springer Earth System Sciences. Springer Verlag,
Heidelberg
, 2012. 216 p. More
Schmelzer, N., J. Holfort, M. Sztobryn, P. Przygrodzki (Eds.)
Climatological Ice Atlas for the western and southern Baltic Sea (1961-2010)
ISBN 978-3-86987-278-0, BSH No. 2338 More
Omstedt, A.
Guide to Process Based Modeling of Lakes and Coastal Seas
Series: Praxis Books, Geophysical Sciences. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2011. 310 p. More
New Articles
Wasmund, N., G. Nausch, R. Feistel, 2013
Silicate consumption: an indicator for long-term trends in spring diatom development in the Baltic Sea
J.Plankton Res. 35 (2), 393-406, March/April 2013
Contact Author: norbert.wasmund@io-warnemuende,de
Abstract
Ning, T., G. Elgered, U. Willen, J. Johansson, 2013
Evaluation of the atmospheric water vapor content in a regional climate model using ground-based GPS measurements
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 118 p. 1-11, January 2013
Contact Author: tong.ning@chalmers.se
Abstract
Edman, M., A. Omstedt, 2013
Modeling the dissolved CO2 system in the redox environment of the Baltic Sea
Limnol. Oceanogr., 58 (1), 74-92, January 2013
Contact Author: Moa.Edman@gvc.gu.se
Abstract
Omstedt, A., M. Edman, B. Claremar, P. Frodin, E. Gustafsson, C. Humborg, H. Hägg, M. Mörth, A. Rutgersson, G. Schurgers, B. Smith, T. Wällstedt, A. Yurova, 2012
Future changes in the Baltic Sea acid-base (pH) and oxygen balances
Tellus, Series B, 64, 19586, December 2012
Contact Author: Anders.Omstedt@gvc.gu.se
Abstract
Special Issue: AMBIO, Vol. 41, Issue 6, September 2012
ECOSUPPORT - Different Ecosystem Drivers Under Future Climate Scenarios in the Baltic Sea.
11 papers. pdf, online
Ning, T., G. Elgered, 2012
Trends in the AtmosphericWater Vapor Content From Ground-Based GPS: The Impact of the Elevation Cutoff Angle
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 5 ( 3 ) p. 744-751, April 2012
Contact Author: tong.ning@chalmers.se
Abstract
Soomere, T., R. Weisse, A. Behrens, 2012
Wave Climate in the Arkona Basin, the Baltic Sea
Ocean Sci., 8, 287-300, April 2012
Contact Author: Tarmo Soomere, soomere@cs.ioc.ee
Abstract
Shaltout, M., A. Omstedt, 2012
Calculating the water and heat balances of the Eastern Mediterranean Basin using ocean modelling and available eteorological, hydrological and ocean data.
OCEANOLOGIA No. 54 (2), 199-232, March 2012
Contact Author: mohamed.shaltout@gvc.gu.se
Abstract
Rosin, K.., S. Keevallik, 2012
Regional variation of hourly and daily totals of global radiation recorded at automatic weather stations in Estonia.
Estonia Journal of Engineering, Vol. 18, pp. 76-86, March 2012
Contact Author: Sirje Keevallik, sirje.keevallik@phys.sea.ee
Abstract
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Events
7th Study Conference on BALTEX
Borgholm, Öland, Sweden
10-14 June 2013
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Baltic Sea Science Congress 2013
Klaipėda, Lithuania
26-30 August, 2013
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More upcoming and past events here...
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