Institute for Coastal Research
Coastal systems are under constant pressure from short and long term natural influences, including erosion or sea level rise due to climate change, and from human endeavours, for example, transportation, land use patterns, tourism, etc. As a means to identify the potential for change, sustainability, and adaptation, coastal research provides the tools, assessments, and scenarios for managing this vulnerable landscape.
Research activities span both the natural and human dimensions of coastal dynamics, analysing the coastal system in global and regional contexts, conducting assessments of the state and sensitivity of the coastal system to natural and human influences, and developing scenarios of future coastal options.
Press releases from the Institute for Coastal Research
Climate change impact on extreme wave conditions in the North Sea
2008-11-21
News -
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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Later, warmer and greener autumn as climatic change comes to North Germany
2008-11-10
Press Release GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht -
Evaluations carried out by the North German Climate Office at the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht reveal how the North-German autumn could change with tomorrow’s climate.
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Workshop 'Klimawandel in Europa im 21. Jahrhundert', Cottbus, 11 Dec 2008
2008-11-07
Event -
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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