The potential of current-and wind-driven transport for environmental management of the Baltic Sea

Ambio

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 94-104

  Soomere, Tarmo ^a,b   Döös, Kristofer ^c   Lehmann, Andreas ^d   Meier, H E Markus ^e   Murawski, Jens ^f   Myrberg, Kai ^g,h   Stanev, Emil ⁱ  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^g FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^h KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Fairway design; Gulf of Finland; Lagrangian transport; Ocean modeling; Oil pollution; Pollution management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC STATES; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FINLAND; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEA; WATER POLLUTION; WIND;

BALTIC STATES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; FINLAND; OCEANS AND SEAS; PROBABILITY; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WIND;

EID: 84898410566     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-013-0486-3     Document Type: Article

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