Supplementary material (newest up)

(19 December 2012)
Supplementary material for 28^th BALTEX Science Steering Group Meeting, 5 September 2012, Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia

E-Appendix 1: Presentation on the Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology by Sirje Keevallik
E-Appendix 2: Report by the Working Group on PostBALTEX concerning the Continuation of BALTEX after 2012
E-Appendix 3: GEWEX GHP - Criteria for RHPs
E-Appendix 4: GEWEX Grand Challenges (Draft)
E-Appendix 5: GEWEX Imperatives 2013

(12 December 2011)
Supplementary material for 27^th BALTEX Science Steering Group Meeting, 29-30 September 2011, Baltic Sea Institute Warnemünde, Germany

E-Appendix 1: On Öland, the venue for the 7th Study Conference on BALTEX
E-Appendix 2: BALTEX – An environmental research network for the Baltic Sea basin (M. Reckermann)
E-Appendix 3: Climate research under post-normal conditions (H. von Storch)
E-Appendix 4: East and West and BALTEX (S. Keevallik)
E-Appendix 5: BONUS calls 2011 -2017: Contribution to the Earth Systems Science (A. Andrusiaitis) (Alert: BONUS call 2011 postponed, see BONUS website)

(30 March 2011)
Supplementary material for 26^th BALTEX Science Steering Group Meeting, 24-25 November 2010, Wallenberg Center, Gothenburg, Sweden

A. Material provided by Deliang Chen (ICSU) concerning visions and reconstructions of current global change programmes and future perspectives of funding agencies

Presentation: International Capability to Address the Belmont Challenge
ICSU Report: Regional Environmental Change: Human Action and Adaptation What does it take to meet the Belmont Challenge?
Presentation: Concept Paper on a Global Sustainability Research Initiative
ICSU Draft concept paper: Earth System Research for Global Sustainability (ESRGS): A New 10-Year Research Initiative
Presentation: The Visioning Process and Institutional Challenges
ICSU Report: Earth System Science for Global Sustainability The Grand Challenges
Science paper by Reid et al.: Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges

B. Presentations by BSSG members

Jüri Elken: BONUS Joint Baltic Sea Research and Development Programme
Hans-Jörg Isemer: On the current planning status of CEOP/GHP and GEWEX / GREW
Joakim Langner: Responses to the POSTBALTEX letter to institutes in BSR, October 2011
Marcus Reckermann: Summary of the POSTBALTEX Session at 6th Study Conference on BALTEX 4-8 June 2010
Michael Lautenschlager: BALTEX WG on Data Management

(16 March 2010)
Supplementary material for 24^th BALTEX Science Steering Group Meeting, 16-18 November 2009, University of Latvia Riga, Latvia .

A. Presentations (pdf) from the KALME-BALTEX Seminar on 16 November 2009 for download:

Uldis Bethers, University of Latvia: Downscaling of climate change scenarios, future runoff and sea state modelling for Latvian waters
Elga Apsite, University of Latvia, and Viesturs Jansons, Latvian University of Agriculture: River Basin Hydrology and Nutrient Run-off from Land to the Surface Waters
Gunta Springe, University of Latvia, and Arturs Skute, University of Daugavpils: Climate change impact on Freshwater Ecosystems in Latvia
Janis Lapinskis and Guntis Eberhards, University of Latvia: Geological coastal processes and forecast of the Latvian sea coast
Davis Grubers, University of Daugavpils: Climate change impact on recurrence and regime of runoff extremes: floods and lasting droughts
Juris Aigars and Baerbel Meuller-Karulis, Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology: Future climate scenarios for phosphorus and nitrogen dynamics in the Gulf of Riga
Anda Ikauniece, Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology: Hopes and expectations: The conceptual course of future for marine ecosystems and fishery
Kristine Abolina, University of Latvia: Space and time for climate change adaptation: Challenges for society and scientists


Jan Harff, University of Szczecin, Poland: The environmental and socio-economic response to climate change in the southern Baltic region: An international conference held in Szczecin, May 2009
Berit Arheimer, SMHI, Sweden: Balt-HYPE: A tool for high resolution hydrological modelling of the Baltic basin
Anders Omstedt, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: On BACC II

B. E-Appendices (pdf) from the 24^th BALTEX Science Steering Group Meeting on 17-18 November 2009 for download:

Appendix E2: CV Hermanni Kaartokallio
Appendix E3: CV Tapani Stipa
Appendix E4: Report of the International BALTEX Secretariat (H.-J. Isemer and M. Reckermann)
Appendix E5: BONUS activities and plans (A. Andrusaitis)
Appendix E6: CEOP/GEWEX developments (H.-J. Isemer)
Appendix E7: SurBACC (B. Hünicke for D. Bray)
Appendix E8: Baltic Sea level survey (B. Hünicke)
Appendix E9: Questionnaire review (M. Reckermann)

(8 July 2009)
Supplementary material for 23^rd BALTEX Science Steering Group Meeting, 12-14 January 2009, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
Presentations (pdf) for download

• Jarmo Koistinen/Daniel Michelson: Summary of the BALTEX Working Group on Radar (WGR)
Hans von Storch: Designing BACC II
Michael Lautenschlager: BALTEX II Data Management and Baltic Grid: Status Report
Hans-Jörg Isemer: BSSG23 Secretariat´s Report
Jüri Elken: Overview on BONUS+ developments
Bernd Schneider: Baltic-C
Berit Arheimer: ECOSUPPORT
Jan Thiele: BSSSC: Baltic Sea States Subregional Co-operation

(12 January 2009)
Presentations given at the BALTEX Workshop on
"Winters with reduced snow and sea ice: Probability of occurrence and implications for the Baltic Sea catchment area"
12 January 2009, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
PDF for download

• Workshop Agenda
Jouni Räisänen: Probability of mild winters: interpretation of recent observations in the light of model results and projections for the future.
Daniel Hansson: Have mild ice winters in the Baltic Sea increased during the last century?
Ari Seinä: Implications of Mild Ice Seasons in the Baltic Sea for Operational Ice Services, Icebreaking Activities and Maritime Transportation.
Kirsti Jylhä: Projections of wintertime climate changes in the Baltic Sea catchment area.
Raino Heino: Recent snow cover changes in Northern Europe.
Esko Kuusisto: Recent changes in areal snow water equivalents in Finland.
Jouni Pulliainen: Real-time monitoring and long term data of snow conditions in the Baltic Sea drainage basin from space- borne observations.
Noora Veijalainen: Effect of climate change on river discharges.

(25 January 2008)
Supplementary material for 22^nd BALTEX Science Steering Group Meeting, 23-25 January 2008 in Norrköping, Sweden
Presentations (pdf) for download

Presentation on the Danish national research programme HYACINTS here
(reference page 32 of BSSG 22 Minutes)
Presentation on the Swedish national research programme SWECIA-MISTRA here
(reference page 17 of BSSG 22 Minutes)
Presentation on the GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network GRUAN here
(reference page 18 of BSSG 22 Minutes)
Presentation on the International Data Centre on the hydrology of lakes and reservoirs HYDROLARE here
(reference page 17 of BSSG 22 Minutes)
Presentation related to national report by Belarus here
(reference page 30 of BSSG 22 Minutes)
Presentation related to national report by Poland here
(reference page 41 of BSSG 22 Minutes)
Presentation related to national report by Russia here
(reference page 43 of BSSG 22 Minutes)