BALTEX Projects
This is a list of BALTEX projects until roughly 2013. For a comprehensive listing and more information on BALTEX, please go to the old BALTEX website.
Large interdisciplinary projects
- PolPer:Baltic2011 - A survey of political stakeholders’ perceptions of climate change and adaptation in the Baltic Sea region (PDF)
- 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)
- Sea ice physics in the Baltic Sea - Jari Haapala, Timo Vihma, Bin Cheng, Markku Similä, Juha Karvonen, Roberta Pirazzini, Eero Rinne, others are welcome (PDF)
- Coastal Meteorology in the Northern Baltic Sea - Hannu Savijärvi, Timo Vihma, Sami Niemelä, Lorenzo Claveri, Priit Tisler, others are welcome (PDF)
- Modelling the deposition of persistent organic pollutants into the Baltic Sea at long time scales - Armin Aulinger, Volker Matthias, Markus Quante (PDF)
- ICTS (Inter-CSE Transferability Study) - Burkhardt Rockel and others (PDF)
Finished Ph.D. projects:
- 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.
- 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
Three major field campaigns including related modelling and analysis activities with funding support through both the 4th and 5th 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