Coastline Changes of the Baltic Sea from South to East

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Jan Harff, Kazimierz Furmańczyk, Hans von Storch

   Pages 1-12

3. Concepts and Model Approaches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. What Determines the Change of Coastlines in the Baltic Sea?

      • Jan Harff, Junjie Deng, Joanna Dudzińska-Nowak, Peter Fröhle, Andreas Groh, Birgit Hünicke et al.

      Pages 15-35

   3. The Challenge of Baltic Sea Level Change

      • Birgit Hünicke, Eduardo Zorita, Hans von Storch

      Pages 37-54

   4. Recent Baltic Sea Level Changes Induced by Past and Present Ice Masses

      • Andreas Groh, Andreas Richter, Reinhard Dietrich

      Pages 55-68

   5. Factors and Processes Forming the Polish Southern Baltic Sea Coast on Various Temporal and Spatial Scales

      • Stanisław Musielak, Kazimierz Furmańczyk, Natalia Bugajny

      Pages 69-85

   6. The Dynamic Equilibrium Shore Model for the Reconstruction and Future Projection of Coastal Morphodynamics

      • Junjie Deng, Jan Harff, Wenyan Zhang, Ralf Schneider, Joanna Dudzińska-Nowak, Andrzej Giza et al.

      Pages 87-106

   7. Modelling of Medium-Term (Decadal) Coastal Foredune Morphodynamics- Historical Hindcast and Future Scenarios of the Świna Gate Barrier Coast (Southern Baltic Sea)

      • Wenyan Zhang, Ralf Schneider, Jan Harff, Birgit Hünicke, Peter Fröhle

      Pages 107-135

   8. Constraints of Radiocarbon Dating in Southeastern Baltic Lagoons: Assessing the Vital Effects

      • Albertas Bitinas, Jonas Mažeika, Ilya V. Buynevich, Aldona Damušytė, Anatoly Molodkov, Alma Grigienė

      Pages 137-171

4. Regional Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Late Glacial to Holocene Environmental Changes (with Particular Reference to Salinity) in the Southern Baltic Reconstructed from Shallow Water Lagoon Sediments

      • Andrzej Witkowski, Bernard Cedro, Sławomir Dobosz, Alistair W. R. Seddon, Agnieszka Kierzek

      Pages 175-192

   3. Postglacial Evolution of the Odra River Mouth, Poland-Germany

      • Ryszard Krzysztof Borówka, Andrzej Osadczuk, Krystyna Osadczuk, Andrzej Witkowski, Artur Skowronek, Małgorzata Latałowa et al.

      Pages 193-217

   4. Morphodynamic Processes of the Swina Gate Coastal Zone Development (Southern Baltic Sea)

      • Joanna Dudzińska-Nowak

      Pages 219-255

   5. New Demands on Old Maps – An Approach for Estimating Aspects of Accuracy of Old Maps as Basis for Landscape Development Research

      • Jörg Hartleib, Bernd Bobertz

      Pages 257-270

   6. Reconstruction of Coastline Changes by the Comparisons of Historical Maps at the Pomeranian Bay, Southern Baltic Sea

      • Junjie Deng, Jan Harff, Andrzej Giza, Jörg Hartleib, Joanna Dudzińska-Nowak, Bernd Bobertz et al.

      Pages 271-287

   7. Changes in the Szczecin Lagoon Shoreline as Determined from Selected Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century Maps

      • Krzysztof Siedlik

      Pages 289-326

   8. Retrieving the Signal of Climate Change from Numerically Simulated Sediment Transport Along the Eastern Baltic Sea Coast

      • Tarmo Soomere, Maija Viška, Katri Pindsoo

      Pages 327-361

   9. Sea-Level Change and Flood Risks at Estonian Coastal Zone

      • Alar Rosentau, Merle Muru, Martin Gauk, Tõnis Oja, Aive Liibusk, Tarmo Kall et al.

      Pages 363-388

This book discusses sea-level and coastline changes. These topics are becoming increasingly important for populations living along the edge of the world’s oceans and seas, especially in areas where eustatic sea-level rise is superimposed on isostatic subsidence and storm-induced coastal erosion. This is the case at the southern and eastern Baltic Sea coast: in the south, glacio-isostatic subsidence enhances the effect of climate-induced sea-level rise and strong storm effects are causing a continuous retreat of the coast. On the eastern coast glacio-isostatic uplift compensates for eustatic sea-level rise, but storm-induced waves are responsible for permanent morphodynamic changes to the coastline. There is an increasing need for protection concepts for defense but also for the economic use of the different types of coastal zones. The elaboration of these management concepts can be facilitated through models that generate future projections of coastal developments in the light of modern climate change. This anthology comprises the results of the research project “Coastline Changes of the southern Baltic Sea – Past and future projection (CoPaF)” funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, which was run by a team of Estonian, German, Lithuanian, and Polish geoscientists and coastal engineers from 2010 to 2013 and overlapped with and complemented the work of COST Action SPLASHCOS supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). As the southern and eastern Baltic serves as a natural laboratory for the investigation of coastal processes, the project’s findings contribute not only to the solution of regional problems in Baltic coastal research and engineering, but also to worldwide interests in description, modelling and parameterization of coastal processes and morphodynamics.

• Baltic Sea and Coastline Change
• Sea-level Change in the Baltic Region
• Paleo coastal environment and the Baltic Region
• Climate Change and the Baltic Sea
• Coastal Morphodynamics and the Baltic Sea
• coastal sciences
• climate change

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

  Jan Harff, Kazimierz Furmańczyk

• Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany

  Hans von Storch

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