Baltic Climate Change

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 93-120

  Hagen, Eberhard ^a   Feistel, Rainer ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic climate change and climate variability; Baltic Sea winter climate and temporal variability; North Atlantic European sector of Arctic Oscillation (AO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875541396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470283134.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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