BALTEX Working Group on BALTIC GRID

Mission

As a first step to BALTIC GRID a Working Group on BALTIC GRID has been established to coordinate activities and promote a BALTIC GRID Pilot Study. The basis of the pilot study are model data from the coupled atmosphere-ocean models (RCAO & BALTIMOS) or stand alone model runs which will be made available in cooperation with the BALTEX Working Group on Data Management for the members of the BWG-GRID. These data serve as nuclei for co-operative research within BALTIC GRID. The intention of the pilot study is to intensively utilize the BALTEX Community Network to initiate the formation of international research groups to start important research within BALTEX Phase II. Furthermore, the research groups will be ideally suited as core groups to initiate funded projects which will be of interest for the EU or other funding agencies.

The target period for the pilot study is 1980 to 2006 with special focus on the extended BRIDGE period 1999 to 2006. The target period includes recent extreme inflows to the Baltic Sea as well as extreme hot summers and flooding. Thus, this period is extraordinarily suited to study variability and trends as well as extreme events in the Baltic catchment. A synthesis of BALTEX BRIDGE is up to now still missing. With modelled data and corresponding observations including satellite data, a synthesis would be possible including a detailed quantification of the energy and water cycles of the Baltic catchment. The BALTIC GRID Pilot Study should last about 2 years. Participating research groups should take advantage of existing observations and satellite data in conjunction with model simulations of the target period. Thus data needs will be: model data from process models and coupled atmosphere-land-ocean models, and observations consisting of basic measurements of atmosphere, land and ocean, flux-measurements and satellite data.

Terms of Reference

• maintaining links to the Water and Energy Budget Studies Group (WEBS) in CEOP / GEWEX
• initiating and conducting (interdisciplinary) research within BALTEX Phase II (BONUS+)
• conduction of the BALTIC GRID Pilot study; conduct model runs for the target period and deliver data to a data bank system where they are easy accessible by BALTIC GRID members (still in progress)
• initiating resources sharing (expertise, observations including satellite model data) (BONUS+)
• setting up international collaborations with focus on the following research questions (BONUS+):
• determination the variability and trends of the water and energy budget of the Baltic Sea catchment including estimation of uncertainties
• study extreme events and their causes
• quantification of fluxes between atmosphere-land and atmosphere-sea ice-ocean and the exchange between the coastal area and the open Baltic Sea

Andreas Lehmann (Chair)
IFM-GEOMAR
Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften
an der Universität Kiel
Düsternbrooker Weg 20
D-24105 Kiel / Germany
Phone: +49-431-600-1566
Fax: +49-431-600-4012
e-mail: alehmann(at)ifm-geomar.de 

Karin Borenäs
Associate professor
Head of the oceanographic research unit
Research and Development
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
SE-60176 Norrköping
Sweden
Tel: +46 31 7518967              
Fax: +46 31 7518980
E-mail: karin.borenas(at)smhi.se

Alfred Dubicki
Instytut Meteorologii i Gospodarki Wodnej (IMGW)
Ul. Podleśna 61
01-673 Warszawa
Poland
Tel. 0 71 32 00 160
E-Mail: alfred.dubicki(at)imgw.pl

Jüri Elken
Tallinn University of Technology
Marine Systems Institute
Akadamia tee 21
EE-12618 Tallinn
Estonia
e-mail: elken(at)phys.sea.ee

Frauke Feser
Institute for Coastal Research
GKSS Research Centre
Max Planck-Str. 1
D-21502 Geesthacht
Germany
e-mail: frauke.feser(at)gkss.de

Jari Haapala
Finnish Institute of Marine Research
Department of Physical Oceanography
PL 2 (Erik Palménin aukio 1)
00561 Helsinki
Finland
Tel: (09) 6139 4406
e-mail: jari.haapala(at)fimr.fi

Daniela Jacob
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
Bundesstraße 55
D-20146 Hamburg / Germany
Phone: + 49-40-41173-313
FaxAndreas Lehmann (Chair)
IFM-GEOMAR
Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften
an der Universität Kiel
Düsternbrooker Weg 20
D-24105 Kiel / Germany
Phone: +49-431-600-1566
Fax: +49-431-600-4012
e-mail: alehmann(at)ifm-geomar.de 

Philip Lorenz
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
Bundesstraße 55
20146 Hamburg
Germany
Tel +49 40 41173 - 266
Fax +49-40-41173-298
Email: philip.lorenz(at)zmaw.de

Markus Meier
SMHI
Folkborgsvägen 1
SE-601 76 Norrköping
Sweden
Tel +46 11 495 8612
Fax +46-11-495-8001
Email: markus.meier(at)smhi.se

Anders Omstedt
Göteborg University
Earth Sciences Centre - Oceanography
P.O. Box 460
S-40530 Göteborg / Sweden
Phone: + 46-31-786-2881
Fax: +46-31-786-2888
e-mail: anders.omstedt(at)gvc.gu.se

Timo Vihma
Finnish Meteorological Institute
P.O. Box 503, Vuorikatu 24
FIN-00101 Helsinki / Finland
Phone: + 358-9-1929-4173
Fax:+ 358-9-1929-4103
e-mail: timo.vihma(at)fmi.fi

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