Urban SIS - "Climate information for European Cities"

adaptation. Goals The main goal of Urban SIS is to develop, demonstrate and put into production a method to downscale climate and impact indicators to the urban scale, delivering the information in a format that it is directly useful for consultants, planners, engineers and scientists dealing with intense Last updated:

SMHI builds flood forecasting and alert system in West Africa

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local levels. "We try to establish an ambitious cooperation across the region with a cascade of users at different levels to share information and take responsibility for their part in the production chain that we are setting up," says Berit Arheimer, Head of the Hydrological Research Unit at SMHI Last updated:

Botswana DWA joins the HYPE community

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and is easy to use and manipulate. - It is not data intense therefore suitable for the data availability conditions of Botswana or the Limpopo Catchment. Moreover there is easy access to technical support by the developer SMHI the HYPE Model has been used in other catchments in Africa and therefore Last updated:

Positive response after SMHI’s meteorology course in Ireland

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hydrological forecasters. They also got to know more about Swedish traditions and the celebrations of Midsummer. In designing the course, we tried to follow an approach that would be in line with the Practical Meteorology program and the participants were very pleased with the combination of theory and Last updated:

Fields of Research and Research Focus

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forecast of sea ice extension, of sea level high stands along the Swedish coast, as well as the potential for harmful algae and oxygen depletion in the deep Baltic Sea are examples of services that have been provided. Another priority is to investigate the impact of anthropogenic influences in the Baltic Last updated:

NATIONAL OPEN SEA MONITORING Results from 1990

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cruise. In the Gdansk Basin there is no longer any stratification and oxygen is mixed into hte water from the surface layer. This has improved the conditions int he bottom water. However, in the Eastern Gotland Basin hydrogen sulphide has been present in the bottom water for more than 13 years Last updated:

Cruise report from R/V Aranda week 46, 2015

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Eastern Gotland Basin and the levels below normal in the southern parts of the Baltic Proper. The major inflow during December 2014 had not reached further north than during the previous cruise in October and the oxygen situation in the deep water had deteriorated slightly. Hydrogen sulphide is still Last updated:

Cruise report from KBV001 Poseidon week 42, 2012

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phosphate and silicate were still high, while inorganic nitrogen showed normal values. Plankton activity was principally low in all areas. Oxygen concentrations below 2 ml/l (hypoxia) were found in the bottom water in the Sound and at depth exceeding 60 metres in the Bornholm Basin as well as in the Hanö Last updated:

A predictive numerical model of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer based on the Turbulent Energy Equation.

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layer (ABL) has mainly been of inte- rest to numerical modelers in so far it is affecting the evolution of the large scale flow. For short range prediction models very crude parameterizations based on Ekman theory have been used to incorporate the ef- fect of surface friction. It is obvious, however Last updated:

IMPREX

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Recent hydrological extreme events demonstrate the vulnerability of European society to water-related natural hazards, and there is strong evidence that climate change will worsen these events in the coming years. Changed water-related extremes will have important implications on the water sector Last updated: