Description of the Baltic Sea with Numerical Models

State and Evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005: A Detailed 50-Year Survey of Meteorology and Climate, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Marine Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 583-624

  Schmidt, Martin ^a   Fennel, Wolfgang ^a   Neumann, Thomas ^a   Seifert, Torsten ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arkona Basin salt transports; Baltic Sea ecosystem and numerical circulation models; Matter and momentum atmosphere ocean fluxes

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649446258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470283134.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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