Résumé
Covering meteorology, climate, physics, chemistry, and biology, this book serves as a reference source for research into the long-term evolution of environmental problems, offering causes, effects, and possible solutions. It covers a wealth of information, including:
Estuarine circulation and saltwater intrusions that dramaticallyaffect ecosystems Extreme and special weather situations, including ice conditions Climatic trends and variability and satellite image analyses Sea state characteristics and wind-driven and internal currents and waves Coastline formation and sedimentary records Eutrophication, concentration, and fluctuation of nutrients and trace metals Phytoplankton, macrophytobenthos, zoobenthos, and fish stock Numerical modeling of the complex ecosystem And much more An accompanying CD-ROM provides useful supplementary material such as oceanographic reference data; long-term observational data on weather, sea level, ice cover and plankton, hydrochemical and hydrophysical data; and selected color figures from the book. State and Evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005 serves as an indispensable resource for students and scientists in oceanography, Baltic Sea research, environmental fields or the geosciences, marine biology, and politics.