Baltic-C

Building predictive capability regarding the Baltic Sea organic/inorganic carbon and oxygen systems

BALTIC-C final report
BALTIC-C briefing on key results
Year 2 progress report
Year 1 progress report

For more relevant publications, visit www.bonusportal.org/publications (category BONUS+ reports)

Begin date 1.10.2008
End date 30.9.2011

Grant: 1 062 789€

The project addresses several of the main themes of Bonus and has a high relevance for the Call. Baltic‐C will for the first time construct the organic and inorganic carbon budgets of the Baltic Sea addressing C fluxes from land, the exchange fluxes with the atmosphere and the sediments as well as addressing internal C fluxes in the water bodies of the major basins. Only such holistic description of all C fluxes will allow scenario analyses on possible impacts of eutrophication, climate change and acidification.

Baltic‐C objectives are to develop and apply a new integrated ecosystem model framework based on the cycling of organic carbon (Corg) and carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Baltic Sea water, drainage basin, atmosphere, and sediments.

 

The outcome of the project will be a model framework in support of water management of the Baltic Sea and its ecosystem addressing the consequences of climate change, eutrophication, increasing atmospheric CO2 and acid precipitation and demonstration applications of the framework of direct value for management.

 

The Baltic‐C program will be organized into three major themes: Programme managements, observations and modelling. Total costs for different threats will be calculated and dissemination of the results will be in close cooperation with BONUS, BALTEX, Baltic Nest, HELCOM and the Swedish Water District Authority.

 

Keywords

Carbon dioxide, oxygen, climate change, eutrophication, acidification

List of Participants and Principal Scientists

	University of Gothenburg. Department of Earth Sciences, Sweden		Anders Omstedt  (Coordinator)
	Baltic Sea Research Institute, Germany		Bernd Schneide
	Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland		Matti Perttilä
	Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland		Janusz Pemkowiak
	Uppsala University Department of Earth Sciences: Meteorology, Sweden		Anna Rutgersson
	Stockholm University, Sweden		Christoph Humborg
	Lund University, Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Sweden		Benjamin Smith

Please visit the Baltic-C webpage for more information!