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Department of Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation

General
Head of department:	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Fennel
Deputy:	Prof. Dr. Hans Burchard
Address:	Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde Sektion Physikalische Ozeanographie und Meßtechnik Seestraße 15 18119 Rostock-Warnemuende
Secretary:	Karin Wrobel Tel.: 0381 51 97 111 Fax: 0381 51 97 440
Staff:	37

Research tasks
	Investigation of circulation and exchange processes, in particular exchanges between the Baltic and North Sea, among the Baltic subbasins and between coastal waters and the open sea
	Coupling of chemical-biological models and circulation models
	Oceanographic observations in the Baltic monitoring programme
	Application and development of oceanographic measuring methods
	Research areas and contact persons

Research areas and contact persons:
Theoretical Oceanography/Numerical Modelling	Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Fennel
Marine Turbulence and Regional Models	Prof. Dr. Hans Burchard
Baltic Sea Model	Dr. Torsten Seifert
Interdisciplinary Modelling	Dr. Thomas Neumann
Environmental Monitoring	Dr. Rainer Feistel
Regional Oceanography	Dr. Hans-Ulrich Lass
Marine Physics	Dr. Eberhard Hagen
Remote Sensing	Dr. Herbert Siegel
Theory/Development of Models	Dr. Martin Schmidt
Instrumentation	Siegfried Krüger
Workshop	Reinhard Kay

Links to IOW-Webpages on current Activities:
PPNW 2007 (11th Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters) Marine Turbulence and Regional Models Warnemünde Turbulence Days 2003 - 2007 GLOBEC Trophic Interactions between Zooplankton and Fish under the Influence of Physical Processes Monitoring "Darss Sill" IOW-MARNET-Permanent Monitoring Stations in der Southern Baltic Sea The LAS-Dataserver of IOW QuantAS (Quantification of water mass transformations in the Arkona Sea) GSHHS (Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shorelines) (P. Wessel) GIBBS Thermodynamic Potential of Seawater (R. Feistel) RANGS (Regionally Accessible Nested Global Shorelines) (R. Feistel) Regional models of the Baltic Sea with MOM-3 *only in German

Links to IOW-Webpages on current Activities:

PPNW 2007 (11th Workshop on Physical Processes in Natural Waters)
Marine Turbulence and Regional Models
Warnemünde Turbulence Days 2003 - 2007
GLOBEC Trophic Interactions between Zooplankton and Fish under the Influence of Physical Processes
Monitoring "Darss Sill"
IOW-MARNET-Permanent Monitoring Stations in der Southern Baltic Sea
The LAS-Dataserver of IOW
QuantAS (Quantification of water mass transformations in the Arkona Sea)
GSHHS (Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shorelines) (P. Wessel)
GIBBS Thermodynamic Potential of Seawater (R. Feistel)
RANGS (Regionally Accessible Nested Global Shorelines) (R. Feistel)
Regional models of the Baltic Sea with MOM-3

*only in German

last update: 26.09.2006

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