Comparing reconstructed past variations and future projections of the Baltic Sea ecosystem - First results from multi-model ensemble simulations

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Meier, H E Markus ^a,b   Andersson, Helén C ^a   Arheimer, Berit ^a   Blenckner, Thorsten ^b   Chubarenko, Boris ^c   Donnelly, Chantal ^a   Eilola, Kari ^a   Gustafsson, Bo G ^b   Hansson, Anders ^d   Havenhand, Jonathan ^e   Höglund, Anders ^a   Kuznetsov, Ivan ^a   MacKenzie, Brian R ^f   Müller Karulis, Bärbel ^b   Neumann, Thomas ^g   Niiranen, Susa ^b   Piwowarczyk, Joanna ^h   Raudsepp, Urmas ⁱ   Reckermann, Marcus ^j   Ruoho Airola, Tuija ^k   Savchuk, Oleg P ^b   Schenk, Frederik ^j   Schimanke, Semjon ^a   Väli, Germo ^a   Weslawski, Jan Marcin ^h   Zorita, Eduardo ^j   more..

^a SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

ⁱ TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^j INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^k FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Baltic Sea Action Plan; climate change; decision support system; ensemble modeling; eutrophication; marine biogeochemical cycles; marine food web; numerical modeling; scenarios

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864418893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034005     Document Type: Article

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