Modelling and GIS Applications, calculates the scenarios of climate change and displays them in topographic and land use maps. These maps form the visual basis for the communication process on sea level change.
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Climate ModellingGunn Persson | 2005-08-04
A climate model is a synthetic climate system described with mathematical terms. The climate models can be used to study possible effects of different emission scenarios for the future...
H. E. Markus Meier | 2005-01-01
Recently, at the Rossby Centre, a series of four scenarios have been performed utilizing two global models (HadAM3H and ECHAM4/OPYC3) and two emission scenarios (A2 and B2). Two time slices have been investigated: 1961-1990 (control climate) and 2071-2100 (scenario climate)...
Hilkka Kallio | 2005-07-29
To calculate the mean sea level rise during the 21st century both land uplift and sea level results of the Regional Climate Model (RCM) were calculated relative to the geoid. The geoid describes the equipotential surface of the Earths gravity field which coincides the mean sea surface. The same surface would arise if the sea water would freely intrude under the continents for example through a tunnel network...
Hilkka Kallio | 2005-08-01
n the long term perspectives the sea surface is subject to constant changes. Its variability depends on a combination of global, regional and local factors and also time scale. Climate change has been one of the main causes of changes in quantity of oceanic water during the history of the Earth. During the last glaciation enormous fresh-water masses were stored in ice sheets in northern Europe and northern America...
Itä-Uusimaa, Finland
Hilkka Kallio | 2005-08-01
This research employed spatial analysis tools in Geographic Information System (GIS) to evaluate the spatial extent of future flood prone areas in the two case study Cities Porvoo and Loviisa. A sum operation was run in the raster calculator to generate a flood prone area analysis with digital elevation model (DEM) and sea level results of the Regional Climate Model (RCM) as source data. .
Pärnu, Estonia
Johannes Klein | 2005-01-01
The three SLR scenarios assume a sea level rise of 5, 52 and 104 cm relative to the annual mean sea level 1961-1990..
Gdansk, Poland
Michael Staudt | 2005-04-01
Gdańsk is the largest city of northern Poland and is situated on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in the Gulf of Gdańsk. Gdańsk is located in a conurbation with the cities Sopot and Gdynia , which together form a metropolitan area called Trójmiasto (Tricity) with a population of over a million people..
Michael Staudt | 2005-03-23
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) were produced by digitising topographic maps, coastline and embankments on a scale of 1: 10 000 for the case study areas Gdańsk and Sopot..
Stockholm, Sweden
Michael Viehhauser | 2005-01-01
The regional GIS assessment of the Stockholm County’s Archipelago and Baltic coast shows that a rise of the Baltic Sea of 0.5 m does not have any negative effects on the coastal land use. Feedback from the concerned municipalities confirms this picture..
Usedom, Germany
Bernd Röber | 2005-01-01
The coast of Usedom Island is characterised by active cliff sections consisting of Pleistocene till, sand and low lying barriers of marine sand that accumulated during the Holocene. The recent phase of sea-level rise causes coastal retreat along the cliffs as well as in some barrier sections..
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