Towards identification of areas of reduced risk in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea

Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 156-165

  Soomere, Tarmo ^a   Viikmäe, Bert ^a   Delpeche, Nicole ^a   Myrberg, Kai ^b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Currents; Gulf of Finland; Hydrodynamic modelling; Pollution transport; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956709009     PISSN: 17366046     EISSN: 17367530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3176/proc.2010.2.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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