Prof. Dr. Hans Burchard

Plexiglas Baltic Sea (foreground, developed for teaching purposes) and real Baltic Sea shore in Warnemünde (background). Click on photo for a video demo of the travel version.

address:

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

Dept. of Physical Oceanography and Instrumentation

Seestraße 15

D-18119 Warnemünde

Germany

mail:      hansnull.burchard@io-warnemuende.de
Phone: +49-(0)381-5197-140
Fax:      +49-(0)381-5197-114

Scientific Interest

• Process studies in estuaries, coastal seas and shelf seas
• Anthrogenic impacts on coastal ocean functionning
• Physical and biogeochemical interactions
• Sediment dynamics in estuaries and coastal seas
• Long-term changes and variability in coastal seas
• Turbulence closure modelling (GOTM)
• Three-dimensional numerical model development (GETM)
• Development and improvement of numerical methods

Check out these links:

Burchard, H., H.M. Schuttelaars, and D.K. Ralston, Sediment trapping in estuaries. Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci., 10, 371-395, 2018.

Biannual Warnemünde Turbulence Days (WTD)

Biannual Conference on Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas (PECS)