News

• HELCOM Workshop on Climate Change
  Warnemünde, 5-6 February 2013. See conclusions here...

• HELCOM Workshop on Climate Change in the Baltic Sea region; a collaboration with BALTEX and BACC II
  Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde, 5 and 6 February 2013
  Register with Minna Pyhälä at the HELCOM Secretariat
  Download more information here...

• BACC II Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, 6-7 September 2012
  Thank you for a successful conference!
  More here and on the BACC Blog...
  

• BACC II Conference, Tallinn, Estonia, 6-7 September 2012
  The conference will discuss and review the new scientific results and developments with the scientific community and intends to create awareness of the BACC II results and possible related societal implications in relevant stakeholders and the public in large. Scientists as well as the interested public and stakeholders are invited to attend.
  More information here...

• 3^rd BACC II Lead Author Team meeting held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 9 and 10 February 2012.
  More...
  

• Interview on the state of the Baltic Sea with 3 leading german climate scientists (Hartmut Graßl, Stefan Rahmsdorff, Hans von Storch), in German.
  Link to text and audio file here...

• Successful 2^nd BACC II Lead Author Team meeting conducted in Hamburg, Germany, on 28 and 29 March 2011. More...

• The BACC book is now also available for free download! Click here...
  If you want the real thing, print versions can still be ordered with Springer at very low discount rates (half price and additional 33% discount. Click here for more infos...

• The BACC Blog is now online! Click here...

• 1st BACC II Lead Author Meeting successfully completed.
  Almost all BACC II Lead Authors made it to the 1st Lead Author Team Meeting in a snowy Göteborg, 23 and 24 November. More...

• SurBACC 2010 - A survey of the perspectives of climate scientists concerning climate change and climate science in the Baltic Sea basin by Dennis Bray
  Download here... or request at the BALTEX Secretariat

• 2nd BACC II Science Steering Group Meeting
  Lund University, Sweden.
  12 and 13 April 2010. At this meeting, the BACC II SSC agreed on membership changes and the final book structure, and suggested BACC II Lead Authors. Minutes...

• First BACC II Working Group Meeting
  Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland,
  12 January 2009. Minutes...

   

   

BACC II (Second BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea basin) is the successor to BACC, which was terminated with the publication of the BACC book. The purpose of the first BACC assessment (BACC) was to provide the scientific community with an assessment of ongoing climate variations in the Baltic Basin. An important element was the comparison with the historical past. Also, changes in relevant environmental systems, due to climate variations, were assessed – such as hydrological, ocean and ecosystem changes. The work has generated a large activity around the Baltic Sea with more than 80 authors writing the assessment and a close cooperation with HELCOM. The BACC book was published by Springer in January 2008.

The aim of BACC II is to organize and publish an updated assessment by 2014, building on and extending BACC.

For "Tasks and Responsibilities for the BACC II SSG, the BALTEX Secretariat and BACC II Lead Authors", click here.