State and evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005: a detailed 50-year survey of meteorology and climate, physics, chemistry, biology, and marine environment

This book presents an extended summary of the reports from the Baltic Sea Research Institute. These compose an interdisciplinary and comprehensive description of the development of the Baltic Sea during the last 50 years, based on long-term observational data. Chapters reflect the most important features from meteorology and climate to physics and chemistry to plankton and fish, writtenby well-known experts of their fields. Although the focus is on the work and the data of the Baltic Sea Research Institute, other international authors have agreed to participate, contributing essential features from outside the institutes actual scope. INDICE: 1. Introduction. 2. General oceanography of the Baltic Sea. 3. Thehistory of long-term observations in Warnemünde. 4. Weather of the Baltic Sea. 5. Baltic climate change. 6. Current Observations in the western Baltic Sea.7. Sea state and tides. 8. Ice. 9. Satellite-derived Sea Surface Temperature for the period 1990 - 2005. 10. The inflow of highly saline water into the Baltic Sea. 11. BALTIC: Monthly time series 1900 - 2005. 12. Nutrient concentrations, trends and their relation to eutrophication. 13. Trace metals in Baltic Seawater. 14. Sedimentary records of environmental changes and anthropogenic impacts during the past decades. 15. Phytoplankton. 16. Macrophytobenthos. 17. Zoobenthos. 18. Fish Stock Development under hydrographic and hydrochemical aspects, the history of Baltic Sea fisheries and its management. 19. Description of the Baltic Sea with numerical models. 20. Digital supplement. 21. Summary and outlook.

• ISBN: 978-0-471-97968-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 704
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés