News of the institute for coastal research

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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The article Annika Jahnke, Lutz Ahrens, Ralf Ebinghaus, Urs Berger, J.L.Barber und C. Temme: "An improved method for the analysis of volatile polyluorinated alkyl substances in environmental air samples", published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry is being featured on the ACS Publications website as one of the Most-Cited Articles published in 2007.

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Within the framework of the HGF MARCOPOLI research programme of GKSS and AWI, one of the themes is the development of new observational techniques and information processing and assessment procedures for coastal waters. With this atlas results of this programme are presented and it is demonstrated how the new techniques are applied.

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Summer School of the GKSS Institute for coastal research concluded. Doctoral students, postdocs and graduands met in Lauenburg and Büsum to an exciting and informative exchange of lectures and excursions. A special emphasis in this year’s school was on the changes in Arctic coasts.

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