Bolding & Burchard

Bolding & Burchard is a research company providing model set-up and simulations of hydrodynamics in marine systems for operational and scientific use. The applied models are the General Ocean Turbulence Model (GOTM) and the General Estuarine Transport Model (GETM). Different bio-geochemical models can also be coupled to GOTM for studies of ecosystem dynamics.

About Bolding & Burchard

Bolding & Burchard (B&B) was funded in Varese, Italy in 1999 during an entrepreneurship programme of the European Communities as an international partnership under the legal form of a Gesellschaft bürgerlichen Rechts (GbR) under German law. As of November 1st 2007 the company has been registrated under Danish law as a ApS (anpartsselskab) with Karsten Bolding and Hans Burchard each having 50% of the shares.

Our purpose

The purpose of B&B is research, development and scientific consultancy in the field of numerical hydrodynamics. The partners are Karsten Bolding (Denmark) and Hans Burchard (Germany), who both have a long-year experience in oceanography and coastal engineenring with specific expertise in three-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling, turbulence, mixing, coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics, data assimilation, computer science, etc.