Knut Klingbeil

Knut Klingbeil is a physicist and researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW) in Rostock, Germany, affiliated with the University of Rostock’s Department of Physical Oceanography. His primary focus is on numerical ocean model development, particularly in hydrodynamic modeling and coupling techniques. He leads the ECOP working group and contributes to projects like TRR181 and MOSSCO, advancing scientific model development and high-resolution simulations.

Research Interests: Klingbeil specializes in consistent numerical techniques for ocean models, coupling hydrodynamics with environmental processes (e.g., waves, atmosphere, sediment), and accurate online model analyses. His recent work emphasizes future model systems for two-way nested simulations in shallow water and the Baltic Sea scale. He actively develops coastal ocean models (GETM), turbulence models (GOTM), and ecosystem frameworks (FABM, MOSSCO).

Advising & Grants: He supervises PhD students in Physics and Mathematics, focusing on topics like water mass transformation, coupled atmosphere-ocean models, and numerical methods. Notable grants include funding for reducing spurious mixing in ocean models (€169k–228k).

Labs/Teams: Leads the ECOP group at IOW and collaborates across universities and institutions. He organizes conferences (e.g., COMMODORE workshops, EGU sessions) and serves as a reviewer for journals and agencies (e.g., ANR, NERC, JAMSE).