State and evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005 : a detailed 50-year survey of meteorology and climate, physics, chemistry, biology, and marine environment /
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| Imprint: | Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2008. |
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| Description: | xxi, 703 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7179663 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. General oceanography of the Baltic Sea
- 2.1. Specific natural conditions and their consequences
- 2.2. Estuarine circulation
- 2.2.1. Long term exchange
- 2.2.2. Short term barotropic exchange
- 2.2.3. Stratification and mixing in the channels
- 2.2.4. Quantifying the stochastic salt exchange associated with the barotropic water exchange
- 2.3. Wind driven currents
- 2.3.1. Ekman current and transport
- 2.3.2. Upwelling and coastal jets
- 2.4. Surface waves, tides, seiches, surges
- 2.4.1. Surface gravity waves
- 2.4.2. Seiches and wind stau
- 2.4.3. Tides
- 2.5. Kelvin waves, topographic waves and eddies
- 2.5.1. Kelvin waves
- 2.5.2. Coastal trapped waves and continental shelf waves
- 2.5.3. Eddies
- 2.6. Internal waves, turbulence, diapycnical mixing
- 2.6.1. Introduction
- 2.6.2. Vertical mixing in the interior
- 2.7. References
- 3. The history of long-term observations in Warnem8nde
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Ship-borne measurements at fixed stations
- 3.2.1. Basic oceanographic instrumentation for ship-borne measurements
- 3.2.2. Oceanographic observations in the 1950s and 1960s
- 3.2.3. International cooperation 1969-2005
- 3.2.4. Activities in the frame of BMP, 1979-2005
- 3.3. Buoy stations and measuring platforms
- 3.3.1. The first buoy stations
- 3.3.2. MARNET stations
- 3.3.3. Current meter stations in the central Baltic Sea
- 3.4. Parameters measured
- 3.5. Data quality
- 3.6. References110
- 4. Weather of the Baltic Sea
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Extreme weather conditions
- 4.2.1. Hurricanes, gales
- 4.2.2. Storm surges
- 4.3. Special weather situations
- 4.3.1. Baltic cyclones
- 4.3.2. Land and sea breeze
- 4.3.3. Warnemnder wind
- 4.3.4. General Vb- and Omega-weather types
- 4.4. Greenhouse effect
- 4.5. Acknowledgment
- 4.6. References
- 5. Baltic climate change
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Seasonal cycles
- 5.3. Climatic trends
- 5.4. Climatic variability
- 5.4.1. Year-to-year fluctuations
- 5.4.2. Decadal scale changes
- 5.4.3. Possible trigger mechanisms
- 5.5. Conclusions and outlook
- 5.6. References
- 6. Current Observations in the western Baltic Sea
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Great Belt and Fehmarnbelt
- 6.2.1. Great Belt
- 6.2.2. Fehmarnbelt
- 6.3. Arkona Sea West and Drogden Sill
- 6.3.1. Darss Sill
- 6.3.2. Drogden Sill
- 6.3.3. From Kriegers Flak to Hiddensee
- 6.4. Around Rgen
- 6.4.1. West off Hiddensee
- 6.4.2. Wittow
- 6.4.3. Kap Arkona
- 6.4.4. Tromper Wiek
- 6.4.5. From Landtief A to Jan Heweliusz
- 6.4.6. Oderbank
- 6.5. Conclusions
- 6.6. Acknowledgement
- 6.7. References
- 7. Sea state and tides
- 7.1. Sea state
- 7.1.1. History of observation and research
- 7.1.2. Observation and measurement
- 7.1.3. Sea state characteristics and wave generating factors
- 7.1.3.1. Wind sea characteristics
- 7.1.3.2. Wave height frequency distribution
- 7.1.3.3. Wave spectra
- 7.1.3.4. Wave generating and wave modifying factors (wind, fetch, wind duration, water depth)
- 7.1.3.5. Special phenomena (air-sea temperature, currents, crossing seas)
- 7.1.4. Calculation and forecast of the sea state
- 7.1.4.1. Empirical wave parameter calculation
- 7.1.4.2. Empirical wave spectra
- 7.1.4.3. Numerical models
- 7.1.5. Wave climatology
- 7.1.5.1. Open sea wave climate
- 7.1.5.2. Wave climate of the coastal zone
- 7.1.6. Extreme wave conditions
- 7.2. Tides
- 7.2.1. History of tidal research in the Baltic Sea
- 7.2.2. Theory of tides in the Baltic Sea and a proper model concept
- 7.2.3. Modelling of co-oscillating and direct tides
- 7.3. Reference
