Background data to the exceptionally warm inflow into the Baltic

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MB Sea in late summer of 2002

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stron

3508
ID Baltic Sea Research Institute

2003
rok

Contents

Abstract 3

Zusammenfassung 3

1. Introduction 4

2. Data Basis 6

3. Meteorological Conditions 7

4. Regional Hydrographic Processes 12

4.1 Great Belt and Sound 12

4.2 Darss Sill Area 21

4.3 Arkona Basin 28

4.4 Bornholm Basin 31

4.5 Gdańsk Basin 35

4.6 Gotland Basin 37

5. Long-Term Evolution 44

Summary 51

Acknowledgement 53

References 53