Further Reading

Baltic-Sea Monograph

State and Evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005

This book summarised the findings from long-term observations of the Baltic Sea carried out by the IOW, its precursor institutes and partner institutions of the neighbouring countries during the five decades since 1952. The interdisciplinary presentation covers the range from physical fundamentals, weather and climate of the Baltic Sea, ice conditions and inflow processes, nutrients and pollutants up to plankton and fish. Many chapters are supported by detailed observational data, available to the reader from a digital supplement on CD for his/her own studies and investigations. The time series regarding, e.g., climate, temperature and salinity of the Baltic Sea, or relevant sea-level data extend in parts back to more than 100 years. The book intentionally focusses on extended sets of measured data which were often gathered under difficult circumstances and with high material and personal efforts, and refrains from model simulations or future scenarios. Many data such as the comprehensive climatological atlas BALTIC or the wave atlas are published here for the first time. Many data such as the comprehensive climatological atlas BALTIC or the wave atlas are published here for the first time. The quantitative details of spatio-temporal changes of various properties elucidate the variability of causal chains and unexpected regime shifts on the decadal scale, that was unexpected in most cases, can be understood only in its complex context, and ephasizes the need for systematic long-term observations under the conditions of the present climatic change.

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