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The natural and engineering scientific work in RADOST will investigate the regional impacts of climate change. Providing the basic data, the research will capture the structural and functional changes resulting from climate change in the western Baltic Sea as well as its inner and outer coastal waters.
The simulation models of the natural and engineering sciences will cover a broad spectrum of aspects and spatial scales. The basis will be the climate scenarios for the catchment areas, the coast and the Baltic Sea (for example, changes in temperature, rainfall and wind) as well as the socio-economic scenarios of regional (land use) change. Based on this, simulation models for sea, coastal and river catchment areas will be coupled for the first time, allowing new possibilities for forecasting climate change impacts.
This integrative modelling approach will foster simulations with strong practical relevance and will also foster the investigation of new questions and issues. In addition to the simulation of waves, turbulences, currents and sediment transport, other aspects, such as water chemistry and ecological aspects such as phytoplankton will be incorporated. The models are able to incorporate both large-scale areas, such as the entire Baltic Sea, and areas on the local scale, such as the individual coastal sections. This is important for addressing specific coastal engineering and ecological questions in the focus research areas. This approach will allow a detailed examination of localized processes in the overall context of the primary guiding processes in the Baltic Sea.
