Vertical mixing in the Baltic Sea and consequences for eutrophication - A review

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-80

  Reissmann, Jan Hinrich ^a   Burchard, Hans ^a   Feistel, Rainer ^a   Hagen, Eberhard ^a   Lass, Hans Ulrich ^a   Mohrholz, Volker ^a   Nausch, Günther ^a   Umlauf, Lars ^a   Wieczorek, Gunda ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALTIC SEA; BOTTOM CURRENT; BOTTOM WATER; COASTAL UPWELLING; DEEP LAYER; DEEP WATER; DIAPYCNAL MIXING; DIAPYCNAL MIXING PROCESS; EASTERN GOTLAND BASIN; ENTRAINMENT PROCESS; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; HOT SPOT; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; INTERNAL WAVES; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING MECHANISMS; NORTH SEA; RESIDENCE TIME; SALT TRANSPORT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; STAGNATION PERIODS; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TURBULENT MOTION; TURBULENT TRANSPORTS; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; VOLUME TRANSPORT;

BATHYMETRY; EUTROPHICATION; MIXING;

SALINE WATER;

DEEP WATER; ENTRAINMENT; EUTROPHICATION; HALOCLINE; INTERNAL WAVE; MIXING; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL MIXING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BORNHOLM; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; GOTLAND BASIN; HOVEDSTADEN; NORTH SEA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 68349105023     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2007.10.004     Document Type: Review

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