News of the institute for coastal research

In order to assess the air quality over Europe the aerosol distribution was simulated for the years 2000 and 2001. Aerosol particles belong to the most important air pollutants in Europe and they represent one of the largest uncertainties in climate models. The largest aerosol concentrations are found in the Benelux area, in south Poland, the Po valley, Bulgaria and Romania.

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In a new publication we document a regime shift (a rapid re-organisation occurring in a natural system from one steady-state to another steady-state) in the German Bight climate and biogeochemical system in the year 1987/88. The shift appears to be associated with an increase in sea surface and air temperature. Various ecological variables have been affected including a decrease in some fish species and an increase in gelatinous zooplankton.

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The Marine Scientist spoke to Professor Franciscus Colijn, from the Intitute for Coastal Research, GKSS about the FerryBox measuring system.

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The North Sea is characterized by densely populated and highly industrialized coasts, by offshore activities, and by busy shipping routes. The areas along the coasts and the human activities are vulnerable to storms, storm surges and wind waves generated by these storms. Anthropogenic climate change may cause long-term changes in the wind and wave conditions of the North Sea which could have significant impacts on human safety (e.g. coastal protection) and activities. At the Institute for Coastal Research four climate projections for the wave conditions in the North Sea for 2071-2100 were compared to reference simulations for 1961-1990 to estimate possible future changes in case of anthropogenic climate change. The results of this study were now published in "Ocean Dynamics".

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Attached you find an invitation to the workshop on the results of the ensemble simulations for the 21st century with the CLM (now COSMO-CLM). Notice please, that the workshop - will be in german language and that it - is especially for colleagues interested to use or already using the results for further studies. Further poster presentations of results of the ensemble-simulations are welcome.

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