BALTEX Science Steering Group (BSSG)

Anders Omstedt (Co-Chair)
University of Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Sweden
anders.omstedt(at)havsmiljoinstitutet.se

Areas of interest:
Water and energy cycles in a changing climate, past present and future climate, Baltic Sea oceanography including interaction between physical, chemical and biological processes, ocean acidification, lake and ocean modelling.

Hans von Storch (Co-Chair)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht
Geesthacht, Germany
hvonstorch(at)web.de

Areas of interest:
Climate diagnostics and statistical climatology, specifically detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change, variability and change in storminess and related marine variables (storm surges, ocean waves), regional climate change; use of paleo proxy data to study climate variability and change, transdisciplinary context.

Sirje Keevallik (Co-Chair)
Marine Systems Institute at TUT
Tallinn, Estonia
sirje.keevallik(at)gmail.com

Areas of interest:
Wind regime, regional climate change.

Mikko Alestalo
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Helsinki, Finland
mikko.alestalo(at)fmi.fi

Areas of interest:
Climate variability and climate change, numerical weather prediction, public relations.

Andris Andrusaitis
University of Lativa
Riga, Latvia
andris(at)hydro.edu.lv

Areas of interest:
Functioning of plankton systems in the Baltic Sea.

Berit Arheimer
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Norrköping, Sweden
berit.arheimer(at)smhi.se

Areas of interest:
Hydrology incl. forecast improvement, climate change impact studies, water quality and participatory processes.

Franz Berger
Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg - Richard-Aßmann-Observatorium
German Weather Service
Tauche, Germany
franz.berger(at)dwd.de

Areas of interest:
Atmospheric observation of regional and local water and energy cycle components and related atmospheric processes making use of three dimensional surface based and satellite observation techniques; data analysis for model evaluation, climate monitoring and satellite product validation.

Ryhor Chekan
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Belarus
Minsk, Belarus
chek(at)by.mecom.ru

Areas of interest:
Hydrology; organization and realization of the hydrological observation on the rivers and lakes of the Republic of Belarus ; monitoring  of the  surface waters of the Republic of Belarus .

Jüri Elken
Marine Systems Institute at TUT
Tallinn, Estonia
elken(at)phys.sea.ee

Areas of interest:
Oceanography: circulation and water masses, mesoscale processes, numerical modelling.

Sven-Erik Gryning
Risø DTU
National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy
Risø, Denmark
Sven-Erik.Gryning(at)risoe.dk

Areas of interest:
Boundary-layer meteorology over inhomogeneous terrain, wind profile, flux aggregation, exchange processes land/sea-atmosphere, meteorological measurements and experiments.

Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
Research Centre of Agriculture and Forest Environment
Department of Climate and Water Resources
Polish Academy of Sciences
Poznan, Poland
zkundze(at)man.poznan.pl
kundzewicz(at)yahoo.com
zbyszek(at)pik-potsdam.de

Areas of interest:
Hydrology, water management, climate change and extreme events

Joakim Langner
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Norrköping, Sweden
joakim.langner(at)smhi.se

Areas of interest:
Atmospheric transport/ chemistry/ deposition modelling. Interplay between meteorological variability (both natural and climate change induced) and air pollution/deposition on the regional scale. Modelling of aerosol size, composition and number on urban to regional scales.

Michael Lautenschlager
Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Datenmanagement
Hamburg, Germany
michael.lautenschlager(at)dkrz.de

Areas of interest:
Scientific data management with emphasis on Earth system model data; networking between geographically distributed data archives; interdisciplinary data utilisation of data from Earth system research.

Andreas Lehmann
IFM-GEOMAR
Kiel, Germany
alehmann(at)ifm-geomar.de 

Areas of interest:
Physical Oceanography, modelling

Kai Myrberg
SYKE
Finnish Environment Institute
kai.myrberg(at)ymparisto.fi

Areas of interest:
3D marine modeling (especially physics), process studies (upwelling, vertical turbulence), smart use of currents for marine safety issues

Janusz Pempkowiak
Institute of Oceanology
Polish Academy of Sciences
Sopot, Poland
pempa(at)iopan.gda.pl

Areas of interest:
Cycling of carbon in the Baltic Sea (concentrations in the ecosystem elements, fluxes to/from sediments, fluxes to/from the North Sea; climate influence on the above); geochemistry of mercury in the Baltic Sea, especially speciation changes in the zones of sea-water density gradients.

Bernd Schneider
Baltic Sea Research Institute
Warnemünde, Germany
bernd.schneider(at)io-warnemuende.de

Areas of interest:
Marine CO₂ system in relation to the Baltic Sea biogeochemistry, gas exchange dynamics, physico-chemical properties of the sea surface microlayer.

Benjamin Smith
Lund University
Lund, Sweden
benjamin.smith(at)nateko.lu.se

Areas of interest:
Ecology and ecological modelling, primarily terrestrial ecosystem functioning and responses to global environmental change, with a particular focus on the role of population and community processes in ecosystem dynamics.

Martin Stendel
Danish Climate Centre
Danish Meteorological Institute
mas(at)dmi.dk

Areas of interest:
Regional Climate Modelling

Tapani Stipa
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Helsinki, Finland
tapani.stipa(at)fmi.fi

Areas of interest:
Multidisciplinary marine research; numerical models; operational oceanography

Valery Vuglinsky
State Hydrological Institute
St. Petersburg, Russia
VVuglins(at)VV4218.spb.edu

Areas of interest:
Hydrology

Ex-officio:
Marcus Reckermann
Hans-Jörg Isemer
International BALTEX Secretariat at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
baltex(at)hzg.de