Presentations

Monday morning

• BALTEX – 20 years of international and interdisciplinary research for the Baltic Sea region
  Anders Omstedt, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Bringing together the East and West: Joining ideas, people, datasets
  Sirje Keevallik, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Challenges for the Baltic Sea region from the HELCOM perspective
  Mikhail Durkin, Helsinki Commission, Helsinki, Finland
• Climate change in the Baltic Sea region - The BACC Assessments
  Hans von Storch, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
• A new science and outreach programme for the Baltic Sea region
  Markus Meier, SMHI, Sweden

Monday afternoon

• BALTEX - 20 years ago and before (special invited talk)
  Ehrhard Raschke
  
• What do we know about the human impact on aerosol cloud-mediated climate processes in the Baltic Region?
  Olaf Krüger
• Surface radiation budget of the Baltic Sea from satellite data
  Tomasz Zapadka et al.
  
• Long term measurements of the energy balance in the urban area in Łódź, central Poland
  Krzysztof Fortuniak et al.
  
• Contributions of BALTEX towards the understanding of the Earth´s water and energy cycle (solicited)
  Lennart Bengtsson
  
• A new perspective on atmospheric requirements for major inflow events into the Baltic Sea
  Semjon Schimanke et al.
  
• Freshwater outflow of the Baltic Sea and transport in the Norwegian Current: A statistical correlation analysis based on a numerical experiment
  Robinson Hordoir et al.
  
• Sea ice thickness variability in the Baltic Sea
  Jari Haapala et al.

Tuesday morning

• Knowledge of the Baltic Sea physics gained during the BALTEX II and related programmes (solicited)
  Anders Omstedt et al.
  
• Upwelling dynamics in the Baltic Sea studied by a combined SAR/infrared satellite data and circulation model analysis
  Andreas Lehmann et al.
  
• A statistical approach to coastal upwelling in the Baltic Sea based on the analysis of satellite data for 1990–2009
  Kai Myrberg et al.
  
• Ground-based GPS networks for remote sensing of the atmospheric water vapour content: A review (solicited)
  Gunnar Elgered
• Advanced modeling tool for scenarios of the Baltic Sea ECOsystem to SUPPORT decision making (ECOSUPPORT, 2009-2011)
  Markus Meier et al.
  
• Baltic-C: Modeling and experimental approaches to unravel the Baltic Sea carbon (CO2) cycle and its response to anthropogenic changes
  Bernd Schneider et al.
  
• Methane cycling in shallow sediments and the overlying water column of the Baltic Sea: A synopsis of the project BALTIC GAS
  Gregor Rehder et al.
  
• Baltic Way: Towards the use of ocean dynamics for pollution control
  Tarmo Soomere et al.

Wednesday morning

• Future Earth: Research for Global Sustainability
  Martin Visbeck, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, Member of the Executive Group of the Future Earth Transition Team
  
• The GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel
  Jan Polcher, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS, Paris, France, GEWEX-GHP Co-Chairman; J. Evans, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, GEWEX-GHP Co-Chairman; S. Benedict, International GEWEX Project Office
  
• Grand Challenges defined for the new programme
  Anna Rutgersson, University of Uppsala
  
• Perspectives for Outreach and Education in the new programme
  Marcus Reckermann, International BALTEX Secretariat

Wednesday afternoon

• The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) in the past two years
  Pavel Groisman, University Corp. for Atmospheric Research at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, North Carolina, USA; R.G. Lawford, International GEWEX Project Office, Washington D.C., USA
• The La Plata Basin RHP: Rethinking the design of adaptation strategies
  E. Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, Maryland, USA; J.-P. Boulanger, LOCEAN, UMR CNRS/IRD/UPMC, France; E. Gentile, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; S. Schlindwein, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
• Climate variability in the Baltic Sea basin over the last 12,000 calendar years: Lessons from the past for the future (solicited)
  Irena Borzenkova et al.
  
• Observed changes and variability of atmospheric parameters in the Baltic Sea region during the last 200 years
  Anna Rutgersson et al.
  
• Spatio-temporal climate variations and trends over the Baltic Sea since 1850
  Frederik Schenk and E. Zorita
  
• Variability and trends in daily minimum and maximum temperatures and in diurnal temperature range in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia
  Jaak Jaagus et al.
  
• Climate change and local trends in longer air temperature time series of the Baltic region
  Andres Tarand
  
• Sea level variations of the Baltic Sea in response to climate variability for the period 1970-2010
  Andreas Lehmann et al.
  
• Detecting acceleration in long time series of Baltic sea level
  Eduardo Zorita and B. Hünicke
  
• Long-term variations of simulated sediment transport along the eastern Baltic Sea coast as a possible indicator of climate change
  Maija Viška and T. Soomere

Thursday morning

• A new generation of regional climate model scenarios for the Baltic Sea area
  Erik Kjellström et al.
  
• Variations in projections of atmospheric climate change for the Baltic Sea region
  Ole Bøssing Christensen and E. Kjellström
  
• Simulation of present and future climate variability over the Baltic Sea area with the new SMHI atmosphere-ocean-ice coupled model RCA4_NEMO
  Shiyu Wang et al.
  
• How a two-way online coupled model system impacts regional climate simulations
  Ha Thi Minh Hagemann et al.
  
• Future climate change A1B scenario downscaling - Results for the Baltic and North Sea
  Dimitry V. Sein et al.
• Introducing the coupled atmosphere-ocean system: COSMO-CLM and NEMO for the North and Baltic Seas
  Trang Van Pham et al.
  
• Consistency of recently observed trends over the Baltic Sea basin with climate change projections
  Armineh Barkhordarian and H. von Storch
  
• Projected changes in Baltic Sea upwelling from an ensemble of RCP scenario simulations
  Christian Dieterich et al.
  
• Baltic Sea wave conditions under climate change scenarios
  Nikolaus Grol et al.

Thursday afternoon

• From BALTEX research to adaptation to climate change – A Swedish perspective (solicited)
  Sten Bergström
  
• The impacts of climate change and nutrient reduction measures on river discharge and nutrient fluxes to the Baltic Sea
  Chantal Donnelly and B. Arheimer
  
• Improved tools for river flood preparedness under a changing risk in Poland
  Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
  
• Towards flood assessment over Eurasian watersheds using RCM and river flow routing algorithm
  Elena Stafeeva and I. Shkolnik
  
• Estimation of the peak outflow from natural lakes within the Neva River basin
  Sergey Zhuralev
• Flood frequency on the rivers in the Belorussian part of the Baltic Sea basin and cyclonic activity
  Irina Partasenok and R. Chekan
  
• Precipitation extremes projections for Poland for the period 2021-2050
  Joanna Wibig
  
• Simulation of annual maximum runoff in a river catchment with a spatial weather generator and climate change scenarios
  Leszek Kuchar et al.
  
• Land cover-climate interactions in the past for the understanding of current and future climate change: the LANDCLIM project (solicited)
  Marie-José Gaillard et al.
  
• Modelling the extent of hypoxia and anoxia in the Baltic Sea for the period 1970-2010
  Andreas Lehmann et al.
  
• Regime shifts and trends in the Baltic Sea area: A statistical approach
  Adolf Konrad Stips and M.-J. Lilover

Friday morning

• The role of the terrestrial dissolved organic matter mineralization for the acid-base system of the Baltic Sea (solicited)
  Karol Kulinski et al.
  
• Influence of DOM on the CO2 pressure in the Gulf of Bothnia surface water
  Moa Edman and L.G. Anderson
  
• Remote sensing algorithms for sea surface CO2 in the Baltic Sea
  Gaëlle Parard et al.
  
• Influence of coastal upwelling on the Air-Sea exchange of CO2 in a Baltic Sea basin
  Maria Norman et al.
  
• Ten years of CO2 measurements on a cargo ship reveal new insights and knowledge gaps in the Baltic Sea net community production
  Bernd Schneider and B. Sadkowiak
• The Submarine Groundwater Discharge as a carbon source to the Baltic Sea
  Beata Szymczycha and J. Pempkowiak
  
• Modelling the interaction between eutrophication, acidification and climate change in the Baltic Sea
  Anders Omstedt and M. Edman
  
• Simulations of eutrophication scenarios using the current and an improved version of ERGOM
  René Friedland et al.
  
• Urban snow and snowmelt runoff inorganic pollution and its impact on the receiving river in the city of Brest, Belarus
  Ina Bulskaya and A.Volchek
  
• Impact of the emissions of the international sea traffic on the airborne deposition to the Baltic Sea and concentrations at the coastline
  Marke Hongisto