Research group Baltic Sea Oceanography
The Baltic Sea is one of the best-surveyed and studied seas on Earth. Yet the Baltic Sea circulation and its role in the complex climate system is neither fully quantified nor understood, in spite of important implications for coastal societies of the Baltic Sea region.
We study circulation in the Baltic Sea from short- to climate timescales as well as processes at the sea-air interface.
In collaboration with colleagues from other institutions and the Baltic Sea Centre, we investigate coupling between physical and biogeochemical processes and consequences for the marine ecosystem. Specific questions consider salinity dynamics, methane transport and exchange processes, winddriven and turbulent currents and their impacts on marine productivity and algae blooms, which in turn affect water quality and contribute to eutrophication and oxygen deficiency in the bottom layers.
We employ observations, theoretical and numerical models, and develop new observational and analysis techniques.
Group members
Group managers
Inga Koszalka
Associate professor
John Prytherch
Guest Researcher
Members
Dimitrios Antivachis
PhD student
Hanna Winge
PhD-student
Johan Nilsson
Professor of Meteorology
Jonas Nycander
Professor of Physical oceanography
Kristofer Döös
Professor of Climate modeling
Matteo Masini
PhD student
