Spatial variations of wave loads and closure depths along the coast of the eastern Baltic Sea

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 93 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Soomere ◽  
M Viška ◽  
M Eelsalu
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Spatial Variations ◽  
Wave Loads ◽  
Eastern Baltic

scholarly journals Alterations in microbial community composition with increasing <i>f</i>CO<sub>2</sub>: a mesocosm study in the eastern Baltic Sea

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 3831-3849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine J. Crawfurd ◽  
Santiago Alvarez-Fernandez ◽  
Kristina D. A. Mojica ◽  
Ulf Riebesell ◽  
Corina P. D. Brussaard
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Ocean Acidification ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Community Dynamics ◽  
Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Microbial Community Composition ◽  
Cell Diameter ◽  
Viral Lysis ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Eastern Baltic

Abstract. Ocean acidification resulting from the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) by the ocean is considered a major threat to marine ecosystems. Here we examined the effects of ocean acidification on microbial community dynamics in the eastern Baltic Sea during the summer of 2012 when inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus were strongly depleted. Large-volume in situ mesocosms were employed to mimic present, future and far future CO2 scenarios. All six groups of phytoplankton enumerated by flow cytometry ( <  20 µm cell diameter) showed distinct trends in net growth and abundance with CO2 enrichment. The picoeukaryotic phytoplankton groups Pico-I and Pico-II displayed enhanced abundances, whilst Pico-III, Synechococcus and the nanoeukaryotic phytoplankton groups were negatively affected by elevated fugacity of CO2 (fCO2). Specifically, the numerically dominant eukaryote, Pico-I, demonstrated increases in gross growth rate with increasing fCO2 sufficient to double its abundance. The dynamics of the prokaryote community closely followed trends in total algal biomass despite differential effects of fCO2 on algal groups. Similarly, viral abundances corresponded to prokaryotic host population dynamics. Viral lysis and grazing were both important in controlling microbial abundances. Overall our results point to a shift, with increasing fCO2, towards a more regenerative system with production dominated by small picoeukaryotic phytoplankton.

scholarly journals Long-term spatial variations in the Baltic Sea wave fields

Ocean Science ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Soomere ◽  
A. Räämet
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Spatial Variations ◽  
Extreme Wave ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Wave Fields ◽  
Wave Heights ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Wave Properties ◽  
Sea Wave

Abstract. This study focuses on spatial patterns in linear trends of numerically reconstructed basic wave properties (average and extreme wave heights, wave periods) in the Baltic Sea under the assumption of no ice cover. Numerical simulations of wave conditions for 1970–2007, using the WAM wave model and adjusted geostrophic winds, revealed extensive spatial variations in long-term changes in both average and extreme wave heights in the Baltic Sea but almost no changes in the basinwide wave activity and wave periods. There has been a statistically significant decrease in the annual mean significant wave height by more than 10% between the islands of Öland and Gotland and in the southward sea area, and a substantial increase to the south-west of Bornholm, near the coast of Latvia, between the Åland Archipelago and the Swedish mainland, and between the Bothnian Sea and the Bothnian Bay. Variations in extreme wave heights (defined as the threshold for 1% of the highest waves each year) show similar patterns of changes. In several areas the trends in average and extreme wave heights are different. Such a complicated pattern of changes indicates that (i) different regions of the Baltic Sea basin have experienced widespread but essentially different changes in wind properties and (ii) many seemingly controversial trends and variations established in wave properties at different sites in the recent past may reflect the natural spatial variability in the Baltic Sea wave fields.

scholarly journals Modelling habitat range and seasonality of a new, non-indigenous polychaete Laonome sp. (Sabellida, Sabellidae) in Pärnu Bay, the north-eastern Baltic Sea

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonne Kotta ◽  
Ilmar Kotta ◽  
Andreas Bick ◽  
Ralf Bastrop ◽  
Risto Väinölä
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Eastern Baltic

Characterization of aerosol particles over the southern and South-Eastern Baltic Sea

2017 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Plauškaitė ◽  
Narciza Špirkauskaitė ◽  
Steigvilė Byčenkienė ◽  
Simonas Kecorius ◽  
Dalia Jasinevičienė ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Aerosol Particles ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Eastern Baltic
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