Baltic Sea

List of Figures
1.1 Baltic Sea - bathymetric map of research area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2 Topographic map of Eastern Gotland Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.1 Map of model congurations Baltic Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.1 Daily temperatures and currents at NE and SW in 170 m . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.2 θ/S plots of CTD stations from MESODYN surveys M-7 and M-8 . . . . . . . 27
3.3 θ/S plots of M-7 and M-8 on selected σ θ surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3.4 ∆θ between density surfaces σ θ = 9.5 kg/m 3 and σ θ = 9.4 kg/m 3 . . . . . . 30
3.5 θ section at 57.24 ◦ N of M-7 and M-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.6 Section of Turner angle at 57.24 ◦ N for diusive convective regime . . . . . . . 33
3.7 Depth proles of θ at BMP271 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3.8 Depth proles of Turner angles at BMP271 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3.9 Sketch of salinity and heat budget calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.10 Depth proles of θ and salinity below 190 m at BMP271 . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.11 θ vs. depth, time series of 〈θ ′2 〉, vertical intrusion scale vs. diusivity of heat . 42
4.1 NE to SW transects of Θ, S, σ t ,O 2 through EGB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.2 NW to SE transects of Θ, S, σ t ,O 2 through EGB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.3 Θ, S, O 2 proles at BMP271 in 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.4 Temperatures of mooring SE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.5 Temperatures of mooring NE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.6 Temperatures of mooring SW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4.7 Θ, S, O 2 proles at BMP222 in 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.8 Θ, S and O 2 sections across Stolpe Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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