Concentrations and metabolism of PCBs in eggs of waterbirds on the German North Sea Coast

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Denker ◽  
P. H. Becker ◽  
M. Beyerbach ◽  
A. Büthe ◽  
W. A. Heidmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
North Sea Coast

What can idealized storm surge simulations tell us about worst case scenarios?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin Andrée ◽  
Jian Su ◽  
Martin Drews ◽  
Morten Andreas Dahl Larsen ◽  
Asger Bendix Hansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wind Speed ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Wind Direction ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
North Sea Coast

<p>The potential impacts of extreme sea level events are becoming more apparent to the public and policy makers alike. As the magnitude of these events are expected to increase due to climate change, and increased coastal urbanization results in ever increasing stakes in the coastal zones, the need for risk assessments is growing too.</p><p>The physical conditions that generate extreme sea levels are highly dependent on site specific conditions, such as bathymetry, tidal regime, wind fetch and the shape of the coastline. For a low-lying country like Denmark, which consists of a peninsula and islands that partition off the semi-enclosed Baltic Sea from the North Sea, a better understanding of how the local sea level responds to wind forcing is urgently called for.</p><p>We here present a map for Denmark that shows the most efficient wind directions for generating extreme sea levels, for a total of 70 locations distributed all over the country’s coastlines. The maps are produced by conducting simulations with a high resolution, 3D-ocean model, which is used for operational storm surge modelling at the Danish Meteorological Institute. We force the model with idealized wind fields that maintain a fixed wind speed and wind direction over the entire model domain. Simulations are conducted for one wind speed and one wind direction at a time, generating ensembles of a set of wind directions for a fixed wind speed, as well as a set of wind speeds for a fixed wind direction, respectively.</p><p>For each wind direction, we find that the maximum water level at a given location increases linearly with the wind speed, and the slope values show clear spatial patterns, for example distinguishing the Danish southern North Sea coast from the central or northern North Sea Coast. The slope values are highest along the southwestern North Sea coast, where the passage of North Atlantic low pressure systems over the shallow North Sea, as well as the large tidal range, result in a much larger range of variability than in the more sheltered Inner Danish Waters. However, in our simulations the large fetch of the Baltic Sea, in combination with the funneling effect of the Danish Straits, result in almost as high water levels as along the North Sea coast.</p><p>Although the wind forcing is completely synthetic with no spatial and temporal structure of a real storm, this idealized approach allows us to systematically investigate the sea level response at the boundaries of what is physically plausible. We evaluate the results from these simulations by comparison to peak water levels from a 58 year long, high resolution ocean hindcast, with promising agreement.</p>

List of Publications Recording the Results of Researches carried out under the Auspices of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom in their Laboratory at Plymouth or on the North Sea Coast from 1886–1900

1900 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-135
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
The North ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
North Sea Coast

The following list has been classified, so far as practicable, according to subjects, in order that it may be useful for purposes of reference. The list does not include publications recording the results of observations made on material supplied by the Association to workers in different parts of the country, of which a considerable amount is sent out each year.

scholarly journals HIGH-WATER PROBLEMS ON THE DANISH NORTH SEA COAST

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
C. Ringe-Jorgensen
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
High Water ◽  
Meteorological Conditions ◽  
Dutch Coast ◽  
Water Problems ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
North Sea Coast ◽  
Made In ◽  
Frequency Curves

With reference to the use of high-water frequency curves, which have been suggested by Wemelsfelder as an aid to fix the maximum flooding level, an attempt will be made in the following to estimate how far certain special geographical and meteorological conditions may be expected to influence the shape of the frequency curves for different localities. The investigation concerns a particular point on the Danish North Sea coast compared with the Dutch coast, but its principles may possibly be of interest in a wider sense.

scholarly journals An invasive alien bivalve apparently provides a novel food source for moulting and wintering benthic feeding sea ducks

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Kottsieper ◽  
Philipp Schwemmer ◽  
Nele Markones ◽  
Anthony D. Fox ◽  
Stefan Garthe
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Food Resource ◽  
Sea Ducks ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Important Prey ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
North Sea Coast

AbstractSince its introduction from North America in the 1970s, the American razor clam Ensis leei (M. Huber, 2015) has successfully spread throughout North Sea coasts from Spain to Norway and the United Kingdom to the western Baltic. We investigated the distribution and abundance of this non-indigenous bivalve species as a potential novel food resource for common scoter Melanitta nigra (Linnaeus, 1758) along the eastern German North Sea coast. Highest densities of flightless moulting and wintering common scoters coincided with areas of high E. leei abundance. Other European studies showed common scoters extensively feed on E. leei. Even with these findings, it remains difficult to demonstrate convincingly that E. leei constitutes a major food source for common scoter in the German North Sea during their non-breeding season. However, our study suggests that E. leei has become an important prey item for internationally important concentrations of common scoters at large spatial scales.

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