Dipl. phys. Richard Hofmeister

current work

Richard Hofmeister is PhD-student at the IOW. In the framework of the project QuantAS-Nat, he will investigate on the natural mixing during inflow events into the Baltic Sea and its effects on renewing water masses in the halocline in the deeper basins. The focus of the work is on model technics (adaptive vertical coordinates, pressure gradient formulations) which help to reduce numerical errors and artificial mixing.

projects

QuantAS-Nat - Quantification of water mass transformation in the Arkona Sea - Natural processes (DFG-Project, 2005- )

MaBenE - Managing Benthic Ecosystems (EU-Project, 2002-2006)

peer-reviewed publications

Hofmeister, R., H. Burchard and J.-M. Beckers: Non-uniform adaptive vertical grids for 3D numerical ocean models,  Ocean Modelling, Volume 33, Issues 1-2, 2010, Pages 70-86 , doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.12.003

Hofmeister, R., H. Burchard and K. Bolding: A three-dimensional model study on processes of stratification and de-stratification in the Limfjord, Continental Shelf Research, Volume 29, Issues 11-12, 2009, Pages 1515-1524, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2009.04.004

Burchard, H. and R. Hofmeister: A dynamic equation for the potential energy anomaly for analysing mixing and stratification in estuaries and coastal seas , Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Volume 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 679-687

other publications

Burchard, H., G. Schernewski, O. Bittner, K. Bolding, M. Gerth, R. Hetland, R. Hofmeister, S. Maack, T. Neumann, H. Siegel, P. Springer, and I. Stottmeister, Physikalische und ökologische Auswirkungen einer Kühlwasserausbreitung im Greifswalder Bodden - Endbericht, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Rostock, Germany, 145 pp., 2008.

 Hofmeister R., Model studies on stratification in the Limfjord, Diplom-thesis, University of Rostock, submitted in June 2006. [pdf]

links

http://www.getm.eu [Richard Hofmeister and Hannes Rennau are webmasters]

http://www.scipy.org/PyLab [Open Source substitute for Matlab]