News of the institute for coastal research

Stefan Hepites award of the Romanian Academy of Science for the publication

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On January 1, 2006 the international project office (IPO) of LOICZ moved from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Royal NIOZ) on Texel to GKSS.

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In a thousand year long climate simulation fluctuations of the European winter temperatures are partly controlled by the subsidence of water masses in the North Atlantic. This process allows the forecast of the long-term evolution of winter temperatures in Europe.

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The optical properties of water and its constituents are of decisive importance for the evaluation of satellite remote sensing data. Up to now measuring procedure for seawater absorption were less sensitive and affected by light scattering on particles. The newly at the GKSS developed instrument (PSICAM) is based on the use of an integrating sphere. The PSICAM methods is several times more sensitive than previous methods and makes it possible to precisely determine the light absorption of seawater samples and therewith to determine the amount of different water constituents, like Gelbstoff, suspended matter and algae.

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On October 2006 the Eduard Brückner-Price which is founded by GKSS Research Centre will be awarded for outstanding interdiszipliary performence in climatic research for the third time. The distinction will take place in the course of the seventh German Climate Conference in October 2006. Formless but well foundet suggestions may be sent to Prof. H. v. Storch till August the 15th 2006.

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