Dr. Birgit Hünicke

Klimaextreme und Impacts

Wissenschaftlerin

Tel: +49 (0)4152 87-1883

Forschung
Curriculum vitae
Publikationen

My main research expertise is the connection of large-scale climate modes on present and future regional sea-level variability and dynamics, and its impact on the coast in different regions of the world, including the Baltic, the Gulf of Guinea and, more recently, South-East Asian Waters.

My recent goal is to support the development and implementation of sophisticated statistical non-cost intensive methods which can be transferred to different regions of the world to help coastal communities to adapt and react on changing sea levels and weather extremes (e.g., by developing early warning systems).

In the last years I extended my research skills in the area of climate extremes and their impacts on the coast. Within this task, I started to learn more about machine-learning methods and its ability to help answering specific research questions in a more effective way.

I have sustained experience in the statistical analysis of combined datasets of observations, climate reconstructions and atmospheric model data output on timescales of decades to millennia.

Due to my first degree, I am also strongly interested in coastal engineering and coastal zone management issues.

My research is embedded in the “program-oriented funding” structure of the Helmholtz-Association in the Earth and Environment program and the topic 4 "Coastal Transition Zones under Natural and Human Pressures" (2021-2027). Beside this, I am continuously involved as Principal Investigator in topic-related third part funded projects.

Projekte

2024 - 2028
Predictability of ocean heat waves. Application of statistical and data-driven methods for the seasonal prediction of heat waves (PredictOHW, funded by DAAD)

2023-2026
Naturgefahren und Reaktion des marinen Ökosystems - Kausalzusammenhang und Vorhersagbarkeit (NECO, gefördert vom BMBF)

2023-2026
Automatic detection of coastline change and causal linkage with natural and human drivers (AutoCoast, funded by HGF, Helmholtz Imaging Platform HIP)

2019-2026
Earth System Variability and Predictability in a Changing Climate, Cluster of Excellence -Climate, Climate Change and Society (CLICCS A6, funded by DFG)

2018-2022
Changes in the Aghulas System and its Impact on Southern African Coasts: regional atmosphere modeling and precipitation changes (CASISAC, funded by BMBF, SPACES Program FONA3)

2016-2019
Extreme sea-level events along South-East Asian coast: past, present and future (Asia-Floods, funded by DFG, SPP 1889 Regional Sea Level Change and Society)

2016
Parental Leave (ARTHUR, funded by BMFSFJ)

2013-2017
Regional sea level under a changing climate at the retreating coast of Ghana (Ghana-SL, funded by DAAD) (PhD Supervisor)

2013-2017
Long-term sea-level variability and change in the Baltic Sea (funded within CliSAP2-B3 by DFG) (PhD Supervisor)

2013-2016
Impact of large scale climate variability on coastal upwelling (funded within CliSAP2-A3 by DFG) (PhD Supervisor)

2013
Parental Leave (MAGNUS, funded by BMFSFJ)

2012
Modelling Storm surges and sea-level rise in the Mediterranean Sea (funded by DAAD). (Host)

2012-2016
Influence of large-scale climate variability on upwelling regimes off the Namibian coast: implications for past and future climates (GENUS, funded by BMBF) (PhD Supervisor)

2011-2016
Climate Signals in Coastal Deposits (CLISCODE, funded within HGF Portfoliothema ‚Regionaler Klimawandel: Ursachen und Folgen’) (PhD Supervisor)

2012-2013
Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Continental Shelf (SPLASHCOS) Research network funded by the European Commission under its COST program. Working Group 2 ‘Environmental Data and Reconstructions’ (Collaborating Scientist)

2011-2012
Working group on drafting a Science Plan for a scientific research network following BALTEX Phase II (POSTBALTEX) (Member)

2010-2013
Wave climate simulations and sea-level change in the Baltic Sea. -Developing regional adaptation strategies to climate change for the German Baltic Sea coast (RADOST, funded by the BMBF within KLIMZUG)

2010-2013
BACC II -Second BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea basin. (Lead Author) Chapter ‘Sea level and wind waves’

2009-2013
Coastline Changes for the southern Baltic Sea –past and future projections (COPAF, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education). (Collaborating Scientist)

2009-2010
Overview of Knowledge about Sea-level Change in the Baltic Sea (in context of the BALTEX project)

2007-2009
Relationships between Baltic Sea level variations and periods of rapid climate change in the Holocene as analogues for future changes (SINCOS II, funded by DFG)

2003-2006
Estimation of the climatic influence on the past and future sea-level changes in the Baltic Sea with the help of statistical methods and simulations with state-of-the-art climate models (SINCOS I, funded by DFG) (PhD Student)

2002
Assessment of the current state of interaction between ecological and socio-economic development in the coastal region of Warnemünde-Rostock, German Baltic Sea: A decision support analysis for conflict management for stakeholder groups, with focus of dune and beach development. (funded by city of Rostock)

DFG: German Science Foundation; BMBF: Federal Ministry for Research; DAAD: German Academic Exchange Service HGF: Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres; COST: European Cooperation in Science and Technology

Research

since 2003	Research Scientist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (formerly Hereon, GKSS) in different Research Groups of the Institute of Coastal Systems -Modelling and Analysis (formerly Institute for Coastal Research- Analysis and Modelling)
2011-2024	with leadership responsibility for up to eighteen employees
2021-2024	Climate Extremes and Impacts Group (Head of Group)
2017-2021	Coastal Impacts and Paleoclimate Group (Head of Group)
2011-2016	Coastal Impacts Group (new group launched under my responsibility, Head)
2010-2011	Coastal Climate Group (Postdoc BMBF project RADOST)
2003-2010	Paleoclimate Group (PhD Student and Postdoc DFG project SINCOS)
2002-2003	Research Scientist at the Institute for Landscape Management and Landscape Ecology, Rostock University, Germany

Education

2008	Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), Geosciences, Hamburg University, Germany Thesis Title: “Atmospheric forcing of decadal Baltic Sea level variability in the last 200 years: A statistical analysis”
2003-2008	International Max-Planck Research School for Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), Hamburg, Germany
2002	Diploma Engineer (equivalent. to M.Sc.), Rostock University, Germany Thesis title: “Studies on coastal protection in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with special emphasis on the effectiveness of beach nourishment” (in German)
2000	Visiting Scholar at North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, USA (Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering)
2000	IAESTE Trainee at City Council Turku, Finland (landscape architecture)
1999	Trainee at Enterprise for Environmental planning and scientific consulting, Bonn, Germany (environmental planning) Trainee at State Agency for Environment and Nature, Coast Department, Rostock, Germany (coastal protection, beach nourishment)
1995-2002	Landscape Management and Environmental Protection, Rostock University, Germany

Professional Activities

ongoing	• Advisory Board Member School of Integrated Climate System Sciences (SICSS), Hamburg, Germany • Supervision of Master and PhD Theses • Reviewer for more than forty international journals and funding agencies
2025-2026	Member of the SynCom Project HydroExtremes within the Earth and Environment program “Changing Earth” of the Helmholtz Association
2020-2025	Member of the Supervisory Board of Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
2019-2025	Member of the University Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence "Climate, Climate Change, and Society" (CLICCS, funded by DFG)
since 2019	Member of the HELCOM expert network on climate change (EN-CLIME)

Bellinghausen, K., Hünicke, B., & Zorita, E. (2025): Using random forests to forecast daily extreme sea level occurrences at the Baltic Coast. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1139–1162, doi:10.5194/nhess-25-1139-2025
Biastoch, A., Rühs, S., Ivanciu, I., Schwarzkopf, F.U., Veitch, J., Reason, C., Zorita, E., Tim, N., Hünicke, B., Vafeidis, A.T., Santamaria-Aguilar, S., Kupfer, S., & Soltau, F. (2024): The Agulhas Current System as an Important Driver for Oceanic and Terrestrial Climate. In: von Maltitz, G.P., Midgley, G.F., Veitch, J., Brümmer, C., Rötter, R.P., Viehberg, F.A., & Veste, M. (eds.): Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change. Ecological Studies, vol 248, Springer, Cham., doi:10.1007/978-3-031-10948-5_8
Rouault, M., Dieppois, B., Tim, N., Hünicke, B., & Zorita, E. (2024): Southern Africa Climate Over the Recent Decades: Description, Variability and Trends. In: von Maltitz, G.P., Midgley, G.F., Veitch, J., Brümmer, C., Rötter, R.P., Viehberg, F.A., & Veste, M. (eds.): Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change. Ecological Studies, vol 248, Springer, Cham., doi:10.1007/978-3-031-10948-5_6
Zorita, E., Hünicke, B., Tim, N., & Rouault, M. (2024): Past Climate Variability in the Last Millennium. In: von Maltitz, G.P., Midgley, G.F., Veitch, J., Brümmer, C., Rötter, R.P., Viehberg, F.A., & Veste, M. (eds.): Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change. Ecological Studies, vol 248, Springer, Cham., doi:10.1007/978-3-031-10948-5_5
Tim, N., Zorita, E., Hünicke, B., & Ivanciu, I. (2023): The impact of the Agulhas Current system on precipitation in southern Africa in regional climate simulations covering the recent past and future. Weather Clim. Dynam., 4, 381–397, doi:10.5194/wcd-4-381-2023
Meier, H.E.M., Kniebusch, M., Dieterich, C., Gröger, M., Zorita, E., Elmgren, R., Myrberg, K., Ahola, M.P., Bartosova, A., Bonsdorff, E., Börgel, F., Capell, R., Carlén, I., Carlund, T., Carstensen, J., Christensen, O.B., Dierschke, V., Frauen, C., Frederiksen, M., Gaget, E., Galatius, A., Haapala, J. J., Halkka, A., Hugelius, G., Hünicke, B., Jaagus, J., Jüssi, M., Käyhkö, J., Kirchner, N., Kjellström, E., Kulinski, K., Lehmann, A., Lindström, G., May, W., Miller, P.A., Mohrholz, V., Müller-Karulis, B., Pavón-Jordán, D., Quante, M., Reckermann, M., Rutgersson, A., Savchuk, O.P., Stendel, M., Tuomi, L., Viitasalo, M., Weisse, R., & Zhang, W. (2022): Climate change in the Baltic Sea region: a summary. Earth Syst. Dynam., 13, 457–593, doi:10.5194/esd-13-457-2022
Weisse, R., Dailidienė, I., Hünicke, B., Kahma, K., Madsen, K., Omstedt, A., Parnell, K., Schöne, T., Soomere, T., Zhang, W., & Zorita, E. (2021): Sea level dynamics and coastal erosion in the Baltic Sea region. Earth Syst. Dynam., 12, 871–898, doi:10.5194/esd-12-871-2021
Yi, X., Hünicke, B., & Zorita, E. (2021): Evolution of the Arabian Sea Upwelling from the Last Millennium to the Future as Simulated by Earth System Models. Climate 2021, 9, 72, doi:10.3390/cli9050072
Tim, N., Zorita, E., Emeis, K.-C., Schwarzkopf, F. U., Biastoch, A., and Hünicke, B. (2019): Analysis of the position and strength of westerlies and trades with implications for Agulhas leakage and South Benguela Upwelling. Earth Syst. Dynam.10, 847–858, 2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-847-2019
Evadzi, P.I.K., Zorita, E., & Hünicke, B. (2019): West African sea level variability under a changing climate –what can we learn from the observational period? Journal of Coastal Conservation 23, 759-771, doi:10.1007/s11852-019-00704-z
Weisse, R., & Hünicke, B. (2019): Baltic Sea Level. Past, Present, and Future. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.693
Evadzi, P.I.K., Scheffran, J., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. (2018): Awareness of sea-level response under climate change on the coast of Ghana. Journal of Coastal Conservation 22 (1), 183-197, doi:10.1007/s11852-017-0569-6
Yi, X., Hünicke, B., Tim, N. and Zorita, E. (2018): The relationship between Arabian Sea upwelling and Indian monsoon revisited in a high resolution ocean simulation. Clim. Dyn. 50 (1-2), 201-213, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3599-8
Karabil, S., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. (2018): Contribution of atmospheric circulation to recent off-shore sea-level variations in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. Earth Syst. Dynam. 9, 69-90, doi:10.5194/esd-9-69-2018
Karabil, S., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. (2017): Mechanisms of decadal sea-level trend variability in the Baltic Sea. Earth Syst. Dynam. 8, 1031-1046, doi:10.5194/esd-8-1031-2017
Bierstedt, S. E., Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., and Ludwig, J. (2017): A wind proxy based on migrating dunes at the Baltic Coast: statistical analysis of the link between wind conditions and sand movement, Earth Syst. Dynam. 8, 639-652, doi.org/10.5194/esd-8-639-2017
Evadzi, P.I.K., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. (2017): Quantifying and predicting the contribution of sea-level rise to shoreline change in Ghana: Information for Coastal Adaptation Strategies. Journal of Coastal Research 33 (6:): 1283-1291, doi:10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-16-00119.1
Hünicke, B., Zorita, E. and von Storch, H. (2017): The Challenge of Baltic Sea Level Change. In: Harff, J., Furmanczyk, K. and von Storch, H. (eds) Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East. Coastal Research Library 19, 37-54.
Harff, J., Deng, J., Dudzinska-Nowak, J., Froehle, P., Groh, A., Hünicke, B., Soomere, T. and Zhang, W. (2017): What Determines the Change of Coastlines in the Baltic Sea? In: Harff, J., Furmanczyk, K. and von Storch, H. (Editors) Coastline changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East. Coastal Research Library 19, 15-35.
Zhang, W., Schneider, R., Harff, J., Hünicke, B., Fröhle, P. (2017): Modeling of Medium-Term (Decadal) Coastal Foredune Morphodynamics - Historical Hindcast and Future Scenarios of the Swina Gate Barrier Coast (Southern Baltic Sea) In: Harff, J., Furmanczyk, K. and von Storch, H. (eds) Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East. Coastal Research Library 19, 107-135.
Harff, J., Flemming, N., Groh, A., Hünicke, B., Lericolais, G., Meschede, M., Rosentau, A., Sakellariou, D., Uscinowicz, S., Zhang, W. and Zorita, E. (2017): Chapter 2: Sea Level and Climate. In: Flemming, N., Harff, J. and Moura, D. (Eds). Quaternary Palaeo-environments on the European continental shelf: survival and destruction of prehistoric remains. Wiley-Blackwell, New York, 550pp.
Groll N., Grabemann I., Hünicke B. & Meese M. (2017): Baltic Sea wave conditions under climate change scenarios. Boreal Env. Res. 22: 1–12.
Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. (2016): Analysis of the acceleration of mean sea-level rise in the Baltic Sea, 1900-2012. Frontiers of Marine Science, doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00125
Bierstedt, S.E., Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., Wagner, S. and Gomez-Navarro, J.J. (2016): Variability of daily winter wind speed distribution over Northern Europe during the past millennium in regional and global climate simulations. Clim. Past 12, 317-338.
Tim, N., Zorita, E., Hünicke, B., Yi, X. and Emeis, K.-C. (2016): The importance of external climate forcing on coastal upwelling in past and future climate. Ocean Sci.12(3), 807–823.
Bierstedt, S.E., Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. (2015): Variability of wind direction statistics of mean and extreme winds over the Baltic Sea region. Tellus A 67, 29073
Tim, N., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. (2015): Decadal variability and trends of the Benguela Upwelling System as simulated in a high-resolution ocean simulation. Ocean Sci. 11, 483-502.
Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., Soomere, T., Madsen, K.S., Johansson, M., Suursaar, Ü. (2015): Recent Change: Sea level and wind waves. In: The BACC Author Team: The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 155-185.

Zhang, W., Harff, J., Schneider, R., Meyer, M., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. (2014): Holocene morphogenesis at the southern Baltic Sea: simulation of multi-scale processes and their interactions for the Darss-Zingst peninsula. Journal of Marine Systems 129, 4-18
Reckermann, M., Omstedt, A., Pawlak, J.F., von Storch, H. and the BACC II Lead Author Team. (2014): Climate Change in the Baltic Sea region - What do we know? In: Social dynamics in adaptation to a changing climate in coastal regions - An interdisciplinary perspective on findings from the KLIMZUG-Projects (Eds: Grit Martinez, Hans-Joachim Meier, Peter Fröhle), oekom Verlag 2014, 19-32.
Reckermann, M., Langner, J., Omstedt, A., von Storch, H, Keevallik, S., Schneider, B., Arheimer, B., Meier, M.H.E. and Hünicke, B. (2011): BALTEX –An interdisciplinary research network for the Baltic Sea Region. Environ Res Lett 6, 045205 (11p), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045205.
Hünicke, B., Zorita, E. and Haeseler, S. (2011): Holocene climate simulations for the Baltic Sea Region -application for sea level and verification of proxy data. Berichte der RGK 92, 211-249
Hünicke, B. (2010): Contribution of regional climate drivers to future winter sea-level changes in the Baltic Sea estimated by statistical methods and simulations of climate models. Int J Earth Sci 99, 1721-1730, doi: 10.1007/s00531-009-0470-0
Hünicke, B., Luterbacher, J., Pauling, A. and Zorita, E. (2008): Regional differences in winter sea-level variations in the Baltic Sea for the past 200 years. Tellus 60A (2), 384-393, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00298.x.
Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. (2008): Trends in the amplitude of Baltic Sea level annual cycle. Tellus 60A (1), 154-164, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2007.00277.x
Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. (2007): Estimation of the influence of regional climate on the recent past and future sea-level changes in the Baltic Sea with statistical methods and simulations of climate models. In: SINCOS -Sinking Coasts. Geosphere, Ecosphere and Anthroposphere of the Holocene Southern Baltic Sea. Berichte der RGK 88, 219-240
Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. (2006): Influence of temperature and precipitation on decadal Baltic Sea level variations in the 20th century. Tellus 58A (1), 141-153, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2006.00157.x

Unreviewed Publications

Bierstedt, S., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. Statistical Downscaling of daily extreme Sea Level with Random Forest: Examples from South-East Asia and the Baltic Sea. European Geosciences Union (EGU) Vienna, Austria, 04-08 May 2020. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 22, EGU2020-10082, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10082.

Zorita, E., Hünicke, B. and Wagner, S. Extreme cold years in Europe generated by internal climate variability in Earth System Model simulations over the past millennium. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 08-13 April 2018. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 20, EGU2018-2636.

Zorita, M., Zorita, E., Wagner, S. and Hünicke, B. Drivers of decadal drought in the Western and Eastern Mediterranean in the past millennium as simulated in two CMIP5 models. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 08-13 April 2018. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 20, EGU2018-2607.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. Acceleration of mean sea‐level rise in the Baltic Sea since 1900. Proceedings of the 1st Baltic Earth Conference 'Multiple drivers for Earth system changes in the Baltic sea region' , Nida, Curonian Spit, Lithuania, 13-17 June 2016, ISSN 1681-6471.

Harff, J., Deng, J., Dudzinska-Nowak, J., Groh, A., Hünicke, B., Zhang, W. Interrelated drivers of coastline change in the Baltic Sea. Proceedings of the 1st Baltic Earth Conference 'Multiple drivers for Earth system changes in the Baltic sea region', Nida, Curonian Spit, Lithuania, 13-17 June 2016, ISSN 1681-6471.

Bierstedt, S., Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., Wagner, S. and Gomez-Navarro J.J. Variability of daily winter wind speed distribution over Northern Europe during the past millennium in regional and global climate simulations. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 17-22 April 2016. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 18, EGU2016-18464.

Tim, N., Zorita, E., Hünicke, B., Yi, X. and Emeis, K.-C. Influence of external climate forcing on coastal upwelling systems analysed in ensemble of past millennium climate simulations. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 17-22 April 2016. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 18, EGU2016-18447.

Bierstedt, S., Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., Wagner, S. and Gomez-Navarro J.J. Variability of daily winter wind speed distribution over Northern Europe during the past millennium in regional and global climate simulations. 10. Deutsche Klimatagung (DKT), Hamburg, Germany, 21-24 September 2015. DKT-10-19, 2015.

Tim, N., Zorita, E., Hünicke, B., Yi, X. and Emeis, K.-C. Influence of external climate forcing on coastal major upwelling systems analyzed by IPCC CMIP5 MPI-ESM climate simulations –past and future. Abstracts of 10. Deutsche Klimatagung (DKT), Hamburg, Germany, 21-24 September 2015, DKT-10-19, 2015.

Eldeberky, Y. and Hünicke, B. Vulnerability of the Nile Delta to recent and future climate change. Proceedings of the 36th International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) World Congress, Delft -The Hague, Netherlands, 28 June -3 July 2015, 7 pages.

Harff, J., Deng, J., Dudzinska-Nowak, J., Groh, A., Hünicke, B., Viška, M. and Zhang, W. Why is the Baltic Sea special in coastal morphodynamics? –a comparative study. 10th Baltic Sea Science Conference (BSSC 2015), Riga, Latvia, 15-19 June 2015.

Karabil, S., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. Variability of decadal sea-level trends in the Baltic Sea. Abstract of Workshop global and regional sea level variability and change. Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 10-12 June 2015, p.35.

Evadzi, P., Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. Impact of large-scale climate patterns on sea-level variability in the Gulf of Guinea with focus on Ghana. Abstracts of Workshop global and regional sea level variability and change. Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 10-12 June 2015.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. Observed changes and variability of mean sea-level in the Baltic Sea region during the last 200 years –a review. Abstracts of Workshop global and regional sea level variability and change. Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 10-12 June 2015.

Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., Madsen, K. S., Johansson, M. (presented by Yi, X.) Two centuries of mean Baltic Sea level variability –an overview. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 17, EGU2015-5940.

Yi, X., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. The relationship between Arabian Sea upwelling and Indian Monsoon revisited. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 17, EGU2015-5651.

Tim, N., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. and Emeis, K.-C. Simulating the Variability of Eastern Boundary Upwelling over the past millennium. In: Abstracts of 3rd International Symposium Effects of Climate Change on the World´s Oceans, Santos City, Brasil, 23-27 March 2015, p.184.

Tim, N., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. Influence of large-scale climate patterns on upwelling and the oxygen minimum zone off Namibia. In: Abstracts of 2nd International Ocean Research Conference (IORC) ‘One planet –one ocean’, Barcelona, Spain, 17-21 November 2014.

Bierstedt, S., Hünicke, B., Zorita, E. and Wagner, S. 2014: Simulated changes in wind extremes during the last millennium over northern Europe. In: Terra Nostra 2014/1, p.116-117.

Karabil, S., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. 2014: Sea level trends and variability in the Baltic Sea. In: Terra Nostra 2014/1, p.52.

Bierstedt, S., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. 2014: A wind direction analysis for the Baltic Sea region: Is it possible to draw conclusions from mean wind statistics on extreme wind statistics? In: Proceedings of the 2nd International conference on Climate Change- The environmental and socio-economic response in the southern Baltic Region. Szczecin, Poland, 12-15 May 2014, p.5-6, ISSN2198-4247.

Hünicke, B., Madsen, K., Johannson, M. and Zorita, E. 2014: Mean Baltic Sea Level in a changing climate – a review of the observational period. 2nd International conference on Climate Change- The environmental and socio-economic response in the southern Baltic Region. Szczecin, Poland, 12-15 May 2014, p.51-52, ISSN2198-4247.

Bierstedt, S., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. 2014: Is it possible to draw conclusions from mean wind statistics on extreme wind statistics? A wind direction analysis for the Baltic Sea Region. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 27 April -2 May 2014. Geophys. Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-5048.

Tim, N., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. 2014: Large-scale atmospheric influence on the physical and biogeochemical properties of the Benguela upwelling system. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 27 April -2 May 2014. Geophys. Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-1923.

Bierstedt, S., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. 2014: Variability of western and south-western wind extremes over the Baltic Sea. In: Abstracts of Baltic Earth Workshop on Natural hazards and extreme events in the Baltic Sea region. Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, 30-31 January 2014, International Baltic Earth Secretariat Publication No. 1, ISSN 2198-4247.

Bierstedt, S., von Storch, H., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. 2013: How do statistics of the mean wind correspond to extreme wind statistics over the Baltic Sea? In: Abstracts of Baltic Sea Science Congress 2013, Klaipéda, Lithuania.

Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. 2013: Detecting acceleration in long time series of Baltic sea level. In: Proceedings of the 7th Study Conference on BALTEX, June 2013, Borgholm, Island of Öland, Sweden, ISSN 1681-6471, p.103-104.

Groll, N. and Hünicke, B. and Weisse, R. 2013: Baltic Sea wave conditions under climate change scenarios. Proceedings of the 7th Study Conference on BALTEX, June 2013, Borgholm, Island of Öland, Sweden, ISSN 1681-647, p.62.

Bierstedt, S., von Storch, H., Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. 2013: The variability of wind speed and wind direction of mean and extreme winds over the Baltic Sea. In: Proceedings of the 7th Study Conference on BALTEX, June 2013, Borgholm, Island of Öland, Sweden, ISSN 1681-6471, p.50-51.

Groll, N. and Hünicke, B. 2012. Baltic Sea wave conditions in a changing climate. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, April 22-27, 2012: Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 14, EGU2012-5481.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2011: Decadal sea-level changes in the Baltic Sea. In: Abstracts of Baltic Sea Science Congress 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Weisse, R., Günther, H., Grabemann, I., Groll, N. and Hünicke, B. 2011: Regional wave climate simulations at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Institute for Coastal Research. In: Abstracts of WRCP-JCOMM Workshop on Coordinated Global Wave Climate Projections. WMO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, 11-13 April 2011, JCOMM Technical Report No.55.

Zorita, E. and Hünicke, B. 2010: Is Baltic sea-level change accelerating? Proceedings of the 6th Study Conference on BALTEX, June 2010, Miedzyzdroje, Island of Wolin, Poland, ISSN 1681-6471.

Hünicke, B. 2010: What do we know about sea-level change in the Baltic Sea? Proceedings of the 6th Study Conference on BALTEX, June 2010, Miedzyzdroje, Island of Wolin, Poland, ISSN 1681-6471.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2010: Is Baltic Sea level accelerating? EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May 2010. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 12, EGU2010-14078.

Hünicke, B., Zorita, E. and Haeseler, S. 2010: Baltic Holocene Climate and regional sea-level change: A statistical analysis of observations, reconstructions and simulations within present and past as analogues for future changes. Final report of the DFG research unit SINCOS-2, GKSS Report 2010/2.

Hünicke, B. and von Storch, H. 2009: What do we know about Sea-level Change in the Baltic Sea? BALTEX Newsletter No. 13. International BALTEX Secretariat, GKSS, Geesthacht, Germany.

Hünicke, B. 2009: Contribution of regional climate drivers to future winter Baltic Sea-Level changes: An application of statistical downscaling to the output of global climate model simulations. Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, 25-28 May 2009, University of Szczecin, Poland, ISSN 1681-6471.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2008: Contribution of Regional Climate Drivers to Future Winter Sea-Level Changes in the Baltic Sea Estimated by Statistical Methods and Simulations of Climate Models. Eos Trans. AGU 89(53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS14A-05.

Hünicke, B. 2008: Atmospheric forcing of decadal Baltic Sea level variability in the last 200 years: A statistical analysis. PhD Thesis, University of Hamburg, Department of Earth Sciences, GKSS report 2008/4.

Hünicke, B. 2008: Contribution of regional climate drivers in future sea-level changes in the Baltic Sea estimated by statistical methods and simulations of climate models. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 10, EGU08-A-03668.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2007: Estimation of the influence of regional climate on the recent past and future sea-level changes in the Baltic Sea with statistical methods and simulations of climate models. In Terra Nostra 2007/1-2, 119. pdf

Harff, J., Dietrich, R., Lübke, H., Lüth, F., Hünicke, B., Meyer, M., Lampe, R., Richter, A. and Zorita, E. 2007: Changing Holocene coastal zones of the Baltic Sea -a history of interrelation between geological processes, changing climate and socioeconomic development. In Terra Nostra 2007/1-2, 105.

Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., Luterbacher, J. and Pauling, A. 2007: Regional differences in winter sea-level variations in the Baltic Sea for the past 200 years. Proceedings of the Fifth Study Conference on BALTEX, 4-8 June 2007, Kuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia, ISSN 1681-6471.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2007: Trends in the amplitude of Baltic Sea level annual cycle. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 16-20 April 2007. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 9, EGU07-A-03665.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2007: Trends in the amplitude of Baltic sea-level annual cycle in the 20th century. In: Abstracts of Baltic Sea Science Congress 2007, Rostock, Germany.

Hünicke, B., Wagner, S. and Zorita, E. 2006: Statistical Downscaling of climate drivers of decadal winter Baltic Sea level variability in 1800-2100. Extended Abstracts of the 7. Deutsche Klimatagung (DKT), Munich, Germany.

Hünicke, B., Zorita, E., Luterbacher, J. and Pauling, A. 2006: Baltic Sea level variability in the last 500 years estimated from climate reconstructions and long tide gauge records. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 02-07 April 2006. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 8, EGU06-A-07425.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2005: Influence of temperature and precipitation on decadal Baltic Sea level variations in the 20th century. In: Abstracts of Baltic Sea Science Congress 2005, Sopot, Poland.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2004: Statistical Analysis of the relationship between Baltic Sea level and meteorological forcing in the present climate. In: Abstracts of the 9th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (IMSC), Cape Town, South Africa.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2004: Statistical Analysis of the relationship between Baltic Sea level and meteorological forcing in the present climate and paleoclimate proxy data. EGU 1st General Assembly, Nice, France, 26-30 April 2004. Geophys. Research Abstracts. Vol. 6, EGU04-A-02106.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2003: Influence of temperature and wind on Baltic Sea level within the instrumental period. In: Terra Nostra 2003/6, 205-208.

Hünicke, B. and Zorita, E. 2003: Influence of temperature and wind on Baltic Sea level within the instrumental period. In: Proceedings of Baltic Sea Science Congress 2003, Helsinki, Finland, ISBN 952-91-6257.

Hünicke, B. 2000: Untersuchungen zum Küstenschutz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Wirksamkeit von Sandaufspülungen. Diploma Thesis, Institute for Landscape Management and Landscape Ecology, University of Rostock, 127pp.