Baltic Earth Scientific Colloquium Series
Posted by Dr. Marcus Reckermann, International Baltic Earth Secretariat
Baltic Earth launches a new scientific online colloquium series! The Baltic Earth scientific colloquia will present and discuss topics from the Baltic Earth Grand Challenges and topics, and generally Earth system research topics from or relevant for the Baltic Sea region.
The colloquium will take place online in the webinar format, and will have a fixed time slot in the working week: First Monday in the month, every two months, in the afternoon. Speakers: from the Baltic Earth community and beyond.
First Monday in the month, every two months, in the afternoon at 15:00 Swedish/Polish/German time; 16:00 Finnish/Baltic States time.
Starting on Monday, 4 December 2023:
Past trends in the water balance of the Baltic Sea
by Prof. Dr. Markus Meier, Leibniz-Institute of Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
The calculation of the freshwater balance of the Baltic Sea and its temporal variability is a long-standing field of research within BALTEX and Baltic Earth. The difference between precipitation and evaporation over the Baltic Sea catchment area controls, via the rivers, the freshwater input into the Baltic Sea and thus its salinity. However, the salt input via the Danish straits is also variable over time. In this presentation, I will discuss the latest research on low-frequency variability of the water balance of the region and of Baltic Sea salinity.
