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Overview

Hans Burchard is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and related subfields.

The main fields of study for Burchard include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Oceanography
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Key topics addressed in Burchard's work include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Burchard has published extensively, particularly in the following journals:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Burchard include:

  • The Effects of Offshore Wind Farms on Hydrodynamics and Implications for Fishes (2020, Oceanography)
  • High-Resolution Simulations of Submesoscale Processes in the Baltic Sea: The Role of Storm Events (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • Inversions of Estuarine Circulation Are Frequent in a Weakly Tidal Estuary With Variable Wind Forcing and Seaward Salinity Fluctuations (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • Processes of Stratification and Destratification During An Extreme River Discharge Event in the German Bight ROFI (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • Numerical Study of the Exchange Flow of the Persian Gulf Using an Extended Total Exchange Flow Analysis Framework (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)

Frequent collaborators in Burchard's research include:

  • Knut Klingbeil
  • Marvin Lorenz
  • Ulf Gräwe
  • Xiangyu Li
  • Lars Umlauf

Best Publications

  • A generic length-scale equation for geophysical turbulence models

    L. Umlauf;H. Burchard

  • Comparative Analysis of Four Second-Moment Turbulence Closure Models for the Oceanic Mixed Layer

    Hans Burchard;Karsten Bolding

  • Applied Turbulence Modelling in Marine Waters

    Hans Burchard

  • The Formation of Estuarine Turbidity Maxima Due to Density Effects in the Salt Wedge. A Hydrodynamic Process Study

    Hans Burchard;Helmut Baumert

  • Sediment Trapping in Estuaries.

    Hans Burchard;Henk M Schuttelaars;David K Ralston

  • Vertical mixing in the Baltic Sea and consequences for eutrophication - A review

    Jan Hinrich Reissmann;Hans Burchard;Rainer Feistel;Eberhard Hagen

  • On the performance of a mixed‐layer model based on the κ‐ε turbulence closure

    Hans Burchard;Helmut Baumert

  • Application of k-ϵ turbulence models to enclosed basins: The role of internal seiches

    Gerrit-Hein Goudsmit;Hans Burchard;Frank Peeters;Alfred Wüest

  • Comparing the performance of the Mellor‐Yamada and the κ‐ε two‐equation turbulence models

    Hans Burchard;Ole Petersen;Tom P. Rippeth

  • Quantifying the Contributions of Tidal Straining and Gravitational Circulation to Residual Circulation in Periodically Stratified Tidal Estuaries

    Hans Burchard;Robert D. Hetland

  • Models of turbulence in the marine environment —a comparative study of two-equation turbulence models

    Hans Burchard;Ole Petersen

  • Extending the k- ω turbulence model towards oceanic applications

    L. Umlauf;H. Burchard;Kolumban Hutter

  • Observational and numerical modeling methods for quantifying coastal ocean turbulence and mixing

    Hans Burchard;Peter D. Craig;Johannes R. Gemmrich;Hans van Haren

  • Drivers of Residual Estuarine Circulation in Tidally Energetic Estuaries: Straight and Irrotational Channels with Parabolic Cross Section

    Hans Burchard;Robert D. Hetland;Elisabeth Schulz;Henk M. Schuttelaars

  • Simulating the Wave-Enhanced Layer under Breaking Surface Waves with Two-Equation Turbulence Models

    Hans Burchard

  • Description of a flexible and extendable physical–biogeochemical model system for the water column

    Hans Burchard;Karsten Bolding;Wilfried Kühn;Andreas Meister

  • Morphodynamics of the Wadden Sea and its barrier island system

    Z.B. Wang;P. Hoekstra;H. Burchard;H. Ridderinkhof

  • Ventilation of the Baltic Sea deep water: A brief review of present knowledge from observations and models

    Markus Meier;Rainer Feistel;Jan Piechura;Lars Arneborg

  • A dynamic equation for the potential energy anomaly for analysing mixing and stratification in estuaries and coastal seas

    Hans Burchard;Richard Hofmeister

  • Non-uniform adaptive vertical grids for 3D numerical ocean models

    Richard Hofmeister;Hans Burchard;Jean-Marie Beckers

  • Advantages of vertically adaptive coordinates in numerical models of stratified shelf seas

    Ulf Gräwe;Peter Holtermann;Knut Klingbeil;Hans Burchard

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Deleersnijder
Eric Deleersnijder Université Catholique de Louvain
Volker Mohrholz
Volker Mohrholz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Tom P. Rippeth
Tom P. Rippeth Bangor University
Parker MacCready
Parker MacCready University of Washington
John H. Simpson
John H. Simpson Bangor University
Robert D. Hetland
Robert D. Hetland Texas A&M University
Thomas Neumann
Thomas Neumann Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Jean-Marie Beckers
Jean-Marie Beckers University of Liège
W. Rockwell Geyer
W. Rockwell Geyer Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Margaret A. McManus
Margaret A. McManus University of Hawaii at Manoa

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