Editorial: Scientific results of the European NEWBALTIC project |
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| Authors: | M Hantel |
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| Institution: | (1) Michael Hantel University of Vienna (Editorial Board MAP), AT |
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| Abstract: | 1 (1 Numerical Studies of the Energy and Water Cycle of the BALTIC Region) stands for two international projects funded by the European Community in the years 1996–2000. The campaign was embedded
into the continental-scale experiment BALTEX2(2 Baltic Sea Experiment), a subproject of GEWEX3(3 Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment) (Raschke, 1994; Bengtsson, 1995). The present special issue emerged from two NEWBALTIC progress meetings held in
Sweden: One in June 1999 in Abisko and one in January 2000 at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. The NEWBALTIC
community welcomed the suggestion of Professor Bengtsson, Chairman of the BALTEX Science Steering Group, to present selected contributions of the considerable body of NEWBALTIC results in a special MAP4(4 Meterology and Atmospheric Physics) issue. This collection, it was agreed, might serve as an example for the current state of modelling hydro-meteorological
key processes on the continental scale of the Baltic Sea and its environment (see also Raschke et al., 1998, 2001). All papers
submitted went through the review process regularly applied by MAP.
The present special issue is opened by a review paper of Lennart Bengtsson on the objectives of BALTEX and on the central
goal of the NEWBALTIC project: The energy and water cycle of the Baltic Sea. BALTEX in general was planned as a decade-long
endeavour with a preparatory phase 1992–1993, a build-up phase 1994–1996 and a major research phase 1997–2001. Most of the
work within the two NEWBALTIC projects have been carried out during the major research phase. In the words of the project
folder distributed early in the 90ies: BALTEX, as a research programme integrating three disciplines into one single project, will be mutually stimulating and is
expected to overcome traditional embarrassing barriers between meteorological, hydrological and oceanographic research. NEWBALTIC, as an important component of BALTEX, has done a visible step into this direction. Concerning the specific time
periods chosen, most of the NEWBALTIC studies of this issue concentrate upon a three months period August-September-October
1995 referred to as PIDCAP5.(5 Pilot Study of Intense Data Collection and Analysis of Precipitation)
The total of 13 papers eventually selected for publication in the present special issue are devoted to the two central aspects
of the NEWBALTIC campaign: To understand the processes as represented in modern high-resolution coupled models, and to evaluate
and digest observed data. So the papers of the present issue have been grouped into these two categories. |
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