BALTEX Projects

This is a tentative compilation of current BALTEX Phase II projects and of projects which were launched during BALTEX Phase I and which are either terminated or still ongoing. Various more are in preparation. If you feel a project is missing, send an E-mail to the IBS.

If you are involved in any of the BALTEX Phase II related topics, you are encouraged to send us a project proposal. For details klick here.

BALTEX Phase II projects

Large interdisciplinary projects

• PolPer:Baltic2011 - A survey of political stakeholders’ perceptions of climate change and adaptation in the Baltic Sea region
• BACC II - Second BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Basin (Hans von Storch and the BACC II Group)
• Baltic-C - Building predictive capability regarding the Baltic Sea organic/inorganic carbon and oxygen systems (A BONUS funded project; coordinator: Anders Omstedt, University of Gothenburg)
• ECOSUPPORT - Advanced tool for scenarios of the Baltic Sea ECOsystem to SUPPORT decision making (A BONUS funded project; coordinator: H.E. Markus Meier, SMHI)
• AMBER - Assessment and Modelling of Baltic Ecosystem Response
• BACC - BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Basin (Hans von Storch and the BACC Group)
• BALTIC GRID - BALTEX II Major Data Analysis and Networking (Andreas Lehmann)
• HYACINTS - HYdrological Modelling for Assessing Climate Change Impacts at differeNT Scales (Danish National Research Project, various partners)

Individual research projects

• Sea ice physics in the Baltic Sea - Jari Haapala, Timo Vihma, Bin Cheng, Markku Similä, Juha Karvonen, Roberta Pirazzini, Eero Rinne, others are welcome
• Coastal Meteorology in the Northern Baltic Sea - Hannu Savijärvi, Timo Vihma, Sami Niemelä, Lorenzo Claveri, Priit Tisler, others are welcome
• Modelling the deposition of persistent organic pollutants into the Baltic Sea at long time scales - Armin Aulinger, Volker Matthias, Markus Quante
• ICTS (Inter-CSE Transferability Study) - Burkhardt Rockel and others

PhD projects in work

Finished Ph.D. projects (with links to full thesis downloads)

• Modelling the Dissolved Inorganic Carbon System in the Baltic Sea by Moa Edman, October 2013
• The Carbon Dioxide System in the Baltic Sea surface water by Karin Wesslander, September 9 2011.
• The Baltic Sea marine system – human impact and natural variations by Erik Gustafsson, 1 October 2010.
• Ocean Climate Variability over Recent Centuries Explored by Modelling the Baltic Sea by Daniel Hansson, 25 September 2009.
• Characterizing and Reconstructing 500 years of Climate in the Baltic Sea Basin by Christin Eriksson, 5 June 2009.
• Oceanographic studies of the Baltic Sea with emphasis on sea ice and mixing processes by Christian Nohr, 27 May 2009.

BALTEX Phase I projects

• BRIDGE - The Main BALTEX Experiment
• DEKLIM and AFO2000 - German Climate Research Programmes
• LITFASS - Lindenberg Inhomogeneous Terrain - Fluxes between Atmosphere and Surface: a Long-term Study
• PIDCAP - Pilot Study for Intensive Data Collection and Analysis of Precipitation
• BALTEX Phase I State of the Art Report, October 2005 - Download as pdf or order as print copy from the secretariat

BALTEX Phase I Field Campaigns

Three major field campaigns including related modelling and analysis activities with funding support through both the 4^th and 5^th European Framework Programmes have been conducted by members of the BALTEX community:

• BASIS - The Baltic Air-Sea-Ice Study
• CLIWA-NET - BALTEX Cloud Liquid Water Network
• PEP in BALTEX - Pilot Study of Evaporation and Precipitation over the Baltic Sea