Salinity and hypoxia in the Baltic Sea since A.D. 1500

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hansson, Daniel ^a   Gustafsson, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BALTIC SEA; DEEP WATER; LONG-TERM CHANGES; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; MODEL FORMULATION; NUTRIENT RELEASE; OCEAN CLIMATE MODELS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN DEFICIENCY; SALINITY VARIABILITY; SEASONAL TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER COLUMNS;

OXYGEN;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HYPOXIA; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; OXYGEN; SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 79953234936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006676     Document Type: Article

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