News of the institute for coastal research

In a recent study GKSS researchers B. Hünicke and E. Zorita estimate the importance of temperature and precipitation in modulating long-term variations of Baltic Sea level, by analyzing time series of sea-level-temperature, precipitation and sea-level-pressure in the past century. Their main result is that sea-level variations in winter and summer are influenced by quite different factors and therefore, its evolution in a future climate may be also potentially different.

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How is the marine ecosystem responding to climatic forcings as well as anthropogenic stress like eutrophication on decadal scales?

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Scientists from the Institute for Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht in Germany have analysed the past history of storms and storm floods in the North Sea region, and used models to investigate future changes. Their result: human-induced climate changes will lead to higher storm surges along the German, Dutch and Danish North Sea coasts but current storm surges are not influenced by human-induced climate change.

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Jochen Horstmann and Wolfgang Koch from the Institute for Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht, Germany, have developed the system WiSAR (Wind Fields from SAR), which extracts wind fields over the ocean from high resolution satellite borne radar data. In particular, WiSAR enables scientists to measure area-wide wind fields of storms such as hurricanes and typhoons. This methodology was recently applied to data acquired from hurricane “Katrina”.

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Since phthalates are continually produced and consumed in huge amounts worldwide, they might predominate environmental contaminations for a relatively long period.

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