Extending the knowledge of the regional Earth system in the Baltic Sea region

Baltic Earth strives to achieve an improved Earth System understanding of the Baltic Sea region as the basis for science-based management in the face of climatic, environmental and human impact in the region. Baltic Earth brings together a broad international research community around core scientific issues identified as fundamental to informing societal efforts to achieve sustainability in the region. These “Grand Challenges” are tackled through joint research efforts, workshops, conferences and capacity building events accompanied by a continuous process of synthesis of the current state of knowledge. Communication with stakeholders and research funders aims to ensure impact and relevance of the research. Baltic Earth targets the atmosphere, land and marine environment of the Baltic Sea, its drainage basin and nearby areas with relevance for the Baltic Sea region. More...

NEWS

Call for Posters and Registration OPEN!
Baltic Earth Workshop on
Multiple drivers for Earth system changes in the Baltic Sea region
Tallinn, 26-27 November 2018. In collaboration with BONUS, HELCOM, ICES.
Registration and Poster Abstract Deadline: 29 October!
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1^st Baltic Earth Winter School on
Analysis of Climate Variability
Warnemünde, Germany
22 - 29 March 2019
Application Deadline: 15 December 2018
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2^nd Baltic Earth Conference

Aftermath page now updated with photos, session summaries and more…

Thank you to the 130 participants (of which about a third were Young Scientists) for a great conference!

Call for Papers: A "Research Topic" on the conference theme has been installed in "Frontiers in Earth Science", so you are invited to submit a paper...

Baltic Earth has been approved as full Regional Hydroclimate Project (RHP) of the GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP). GEWEX, the Global Energy and Water Exchanges project is part of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).

Baltic Earth-MedCORDEX-COST Workshop on Regional Climate System Modelling for the European Sea Regions in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, successfully terminated. More...

Workshop on Cryospheric Extremes, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 25-27 April 2018. Registraion deadline extended to 13 March. More...

Baltic Earth Newsletter #4 out now! Here...

New Baltic Earth contributions in OXFORD RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIA "Climate Science" here...

Baltic Earth projects page update... here...

BONUS Call 2017 "Synthesis" open! More....

3^rd Baltic Earth Newsletter Download here...

Baltic Earth back in the GEWEX family
For 20 years, BALTEX had been associated with GEWEX, the Global Energy and Water Exchanges programme of the World Climate Research Programme WCRP, as a Regional Hydroclimate Project (RHP). After the transition to Baltic Earth with a modified steering group and portfolio, it was decided to continue this fruitful international cooperation and re-apply for status as RHP in the GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP). At the recent meeting in Gif-sur-Mer, France in October 2016, Baltic Earth was accepted as initial phase RHP by the GHP steering group. More on GEWEX...

High BACC II book download numbers
The book was published in April 2015 as Open Access book with Springer, and the download numers have since been astonishing. Springer has registered a total of approximately 90,000 chapter downloads, of which about 50,000 were in 2015. With that, BACC II was among the top 25% most downloaded Springer eBooks in the relevant collection in 2016. More on BACC and download links for BACC I and II ...

BONUS BALTICAPP now a Baltic Earth affiliated project. More...

Baltic Earth Science Plan 2017

Now available for download...

3^rd Baltic Earth International Summer School, Askö, Sweden, 28 August-4 September 2017

Upcoming Events

Trilateral Estonian-Finnish-Russian Gulf of Finland Forum "Gulf of Finland - natural dynamics and anthropogenic impact", devoted to 50th Anniversary of trilateral Gulf of Finland Cooperation, 17-18 October 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Baltic Earth Workshop on
Multiple drivers for Earth system changes in the Baltic Sea region
Tallinn, 26-27 November 2018 in collaboration with BONUS, HELCOM, ICES
More...

1^st Baltic Earth Winter School on
Analysis of Climate Variability
Warnemünde, Germany
22 - 29 March 2019
More...

For past events look here...

Baltic Earth Newsletter

Baltic Earth Contributions to the
OXFORD RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIA
"Climate Science"

New BALTEX Publications here

1st Baltic Earth Conference, Nida, Lithuania, 13-17 June 2016
Special Issue: Multiple drivers for Earth system changes in the Baltic Sea region.
Editors: Meier M, Rutgersson A, Smith B, Reckermann M, Didenkulova I
Earth Syst Dynam 8, 2017

Dissertations

Bierstedt, Svenja
Decadal to centennial variability of daily wind over Northern Europe and its application to migrating dunes in the Baltic Sea region
Dissertation at University of Hamburg, Germany
http://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2016/7699/pdf/Dissertation.pdf

New Books

Schneider B, Müller JD
Biogeochemical Transformations in the Baltic Sea
Springer Oceanography, eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61699-5, Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61698-8, 110p.,
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Snoeijs-Leijonmalm P, Schubert H, Radziejewska T (eds)
Biological Oceanography of the Baltic Sea
Springer Netherlands Science+Business Media, eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0668-2, Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0667-5, 683p.,
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Harff J, Furmańczyk K, von Storch H (eds)
Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East
Springer Coastal Research Library, Vol. 19 Open Access, ISBN: 978-3-319-49892-8 (Print) 978-3-319-49894-2 (Online) May 2017
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Omstedt, A.
Connecting Analytical Thinking and Intuition: And the Nights Abound with Inspiration.
SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
ISBN 978-3-319-27534-5

The BACC II Author Team
Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin
Springer Regional Climate Studies Open Access, 501 p., May 2015
ISBN 978-3-319-16005-4

Omstedt, A.
Guide to process based modelling of lakes and coastal seas. Second Edition.
Springer-Praxis books in Geophysical Sciences, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17990-2, 2015
ISBN 978-3-319-16005-4 More

New Articles

2018

Kulinski K, Szymczcha B, Koziorowska K, Hammer K, Schneider B, 2018:
Anomaly of total boron concentration in the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea and its consequence for the CO2 system calculations.
Mar Chem 204:11-19, August 2018
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Saraiva S, Meier HEM, Andersson H, Höglund A, Dieterich C, Gröger M, Hordoir R, Eilola K, 2018:
Baltic Sea ecosystem response to various nutrient load scenarios in present and future climates
Clim Dyn (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4330-0, July 2018
Abstract

2017

Turner D, Edman M, Gallero-Urrea J, Claremar B, Hasselöv I-M, Omstedt A, Rutgersson A, 2017:
The potential future contribution of shipping to acidification of the Baltic Sea.
Ambio, DOI 10.1007/s13280-017-0950-6, September 2017
Abstract

Meier HEM, Höglund A, Eilola K, Almroth-Rosell E, 2017:
Impact of accelerated future global mean sea level rise on hypoxia in the Baltic Sea
Clim Dynam 49(1-2):163-172, July 2017
Abstract

Bierstedt S, Hünicke B, Zorita E, Ludwig J 2017:
A wind proxy based on migrating dunes at the Baltic coast: statistical analysis of the link between wind conditions and sand movement
Earth Syst Dynam 8:639-652, July 2017
Abstract

Myrberg, K., Lips U, Orlova M, 2017:
Towards a healthier Gulf of Finland - results of the International Gulf of Finland Year 2014
J Mar Syst 171:1-3, July 2017
Abstract

Daewel U, Schrum C, 2017:
Low frequency variability in North Sea and Baltic Sea identified through simulations with the 3-d coupled physical-biogeochemical model ECOSMO
Earth Syst. Dynam. Discuss., doi:10.5194/esd-2017-36
Abstract

Schrum C, 2017:
Regional Climate Modeling and Air-Sea Coupling
Climate Science, Oxford Research Encyclopedias, DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.
Abstract

Chubarenko I, Stepanova N, 2017:
Microplastics in sea coastal zone: Lessons learned from the Baltic amber
Environmental Pollution 224:243-254, May 2017
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Lehmann, A., K. Höflich, P. Post, K. Myrberg, 2017:
Pathways of deep cyclones associated with large volume changes (LVCs) and major Baltic inflows (MBIs)
J Mar Syst 167:11-18, March 2017
Abstract

Ho-Hagemann HTM, Gröger M, Rockel B, Zahn M, Geyer B, Meier HEM, 2017:
Effects of air-sea coupling over the North Sea and the Baltic Sea on simulated summer precipitation over Central Europe.
Climate Dynamics 48:1-26, March 2017
Abstract

Ahlgren J, Grimvall A, Omstedt A, Rolff C, Wikner J, 2017:
Temerature, DOC level and basin interactions explain the declining oxygen concentrations in the Bothnian Sea
J Mar Syst 170:22-30, January 2017
Abstract

Esiukova E., 2017:
Plastic pollution on the Baltic beaches of Kaliningrad region, Russia
Mar Pollut Bull 114(2):1072-1080, January 2017
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Zobkov, M., E. Esiukova, 2017:
Microplastics in Baltic bottom sediments: Quantification procedures and first results
Mar Pollut Bull 114(2):724-732, January 2017
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