Nordic Hydrology

Volume 36 Number 4-5
November 2005

Contents

295

Special issue of Nordic Hydrology – 4 Study Conference on BALTEX

Hans-Jörg Isemer , Sven-Erik Gryning and Dan Rosbjerg

297

Long-term changes in the frequency of cyclones and their trajectories in Central and Northern Europe

Mait Sepp, Piia Post and Jaak Jaagus

311

Distribution of snow cover over Northern Eurasia

Lev Kitaev, Eirik Førland, Vjacheslav Razuvaev, Ole Einar Tveito and Olaf Krueger

321

Expected changes in water resources availability and water quality with respect to climate change in the Elbe River basin (Germany)

Valentina Krysanova, Fred Hattermann and Anja Habeck

335

Derivation of a root zone soil moisture algorithm and its application to validate model data

Ralf Lindau and Clemens Simmer

349

The realism of the ECHAM5 models to simulate the hydrological cycle in the Arctic and North European area

Klaus Arpe, Stefan Hagemann, Daniela Jacob, Erich Roeckner

369

A comparison between the ERA40 and the SMHI gridded meteorological databases as applied to Baltic Sea modelling

A. Omstedt, Y. Chen and K. Wesslander

381

Evaluation of the heat balance components over the Baltic Sea using four gridded meteorological databases and direct observations

A. Omstedt, A. Rutgersson, A. Omstedt and Y. Chen

397

Atmospheric response to different sea surface temperatures in the Baltic Sea: coupled versus uncoupled regional climate model experiments

Erik Kjellström, Ralf Döscher and H.E. Markus Meier

411

Operational hydrodynamic model for forecasting extreme hydrographic events in the Oder Estuary

Halina Kowalewska-Kalkowska and Marek Kowalewski

423

Variability of radiosonde-observed precipitable water in the Baltic region

E. Jakobson, H. Ohvril, O. Okulov and N. Laulainen