News of the institute for coastal research

The prize for the publication: Annika Jahnke, Lutz Ahrens, Ralf Ebinghaus, and Christian Temme: "Urban versus Remote Air Concentrations of Fluorotelomer Alcohols and Other Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances in Germany", Environ. Sci. Technol., 41 (3), 745 -752, 2007 has been given over at the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting during the opening ceremony in Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw.

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GKSS Research Centre is one of 27 collaborative partners in the new EU Framework 7 Collaborative Project EPOCA (European Project on OCean Acidification).

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Scientific expert and general public posters have been a central part of the 4th IGBP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme) Congress "Sustainable Livelihoods in a Changing Earth system" 5-9 May in Cape Town, South Africa.

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The article Annika Jahnke, Lutz Ahrens, Ralf Ebinghaus, and Christian Temme: "Urban versus Remote Air Concentrations of Fluorotelomer Alcohols and Other Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances in Germany", published in Environmental Science & Technology is being featured on the ACS Publications website as one of the Most-Cited Articles published in 2007 and cited through the period ending December 31, 2007.

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A systematic investigation and comparison of near-surface marine wind speed obtained from in-situ and satellite observations, atmospheric reanalyses and regional atmospheric hindcasts with reanalysis driven regional climate models (RCMs) is presented for the eastern North Atlantic and the North Sea. Wind speed retrievals from two remote sensing data sets, namely QuikSCAT and HOAPS, are found to give good representation of observed near-surface wind speed. For open ocean areas no value added to the reanalysis forcing is found by the use of the RCMs, while the dynamical downscaling adds value in the wind speed frequency distribution in coastal areas.

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