Baltic Earth Working Group on the "Baltic Sea Model Intercomparison Project (BMIP)"

Baltic Sea Model Intercomparison Project (BMIP)

Proceeding from the 2^nd Baltic Earth Conference in Helsingør in June 2018 the Baltic Earth project BMIP (Baltic Sea Model Intercomparison Project) has been initiated which aims at an assessment of the performance of different regional climate models in the Baltic Sea. The focus of the investigations will be on hydrographic conditions, the mean and overturning circulation as well as on selected processes like for instance salt water inflows, mixed layer depth, ice formation and upwelling events. The planned coordinated experiments will give insights into the long-term variability and basin-wide significance of conditions and processes and are a continuation of the work by Placke et al. (2018) which was presented on the 2nd Baltic Earth Conference. While their findings aimed at statistical evaluations between different model simulations and observational data in the frame of uncoordinated experiments, the envisaged extended study will be performed with uncoupled hindcast model runs using the same atmospheric forcing and river runoff.

Currently collaborations are planned between research groups from IOW (contributing with models like GETM and MOM), HZG (with ECOSMO and SCHISM), University of Hamburg (with BNSC data), SMHI (with NEMO), DMI (with HBM), and BSH. Further participants are cordially invited. A first one-day kickoff meeting will take place at IOW on 22 November 2018, 10:00-17:00.

References:
Placke, M., Meier, H.E.M., Gräwe, U., Neumann, T., Frauen, C., and Liu, Y. (2018). Long-term mean circulation of the Baltic Sea as represented by various ocean circulation models. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:287, doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00287

Kickoff meeting of BMIP on 22 November 2018

Location:
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde,
Conference room villa,
Seestraße 15,
D-18119 Rostock

Accommodation (if required)
A small contingent of rooms (50 EUR per night including breakfast) is reserved at
Hotel "Am Alten Strom"
Am Strom 60/61 
18119 Warnemünde (Rostock)

Please book your room via phone call (+49 381 54 82 31 02) or email (karen.neumann@hotel-am-alten-strom.de) with the code: IOW BMIP.

Participant list

Institute abbreviations:
BSH (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie)
DMI (Danish Meteorological Institute)
HZG (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht)
IOW (Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde)
IO-PAN (Institute of Oceanology, Polish Adademy of Sciences)
SMHI (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute)
UHH (Universität Hamburg)

Agenda:

Model setups and data format requirements

Setup for all involved models: For a convenient data handling, arrangements will be made to ensure a uniform data output and structure. It is aspired that the individual modeling groups post-process their data themselves (e.g., interpolation on a regular grid) in order to avoid wrong data handling.

Data format requirements:

No exchange of 3D fields! Only post-processed data.

Participating institutions

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