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Sensitivity to Change

Black Sea, Baltic Sea and North Sea

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  • © 1997

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2 (ASEN2, volume 27)

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Recent decades have seen a degradation of the environmental quality in semi-enclosed seas, which are particularly sensitive to population pressures due to their naturally low flushing rates related to their geometry. The North Sea, Baltic Sea and the Black Sea are amongst the most seriously threatened seas in the Euro-Asian region. Each semi-enclosed sea has a distinct pattern of circulation, transport, mixing, associated with the particular geometry, topography, boundary processes, interior stratification, atmospheric forcing, ice fonnation, straits / sill controls, and the specific inputs of freshwater, nutrients and pollutants. The workshop investigated the distinctive physical and ecological characteristics of the three seas in a comparative manner, in order to identify the types of driving forces and dynamic controls operating on productivity, nutrient cycling, physical transport and mixing mechanisms. A comparative study of these controlling mechanisms would allow us to better understand ecosystem sensitivity in these different environments. The workshop presentations highlighted the complexity of the semi-enclosed seas related to the interaction amongst the physical, chemical and biological fields, and differences in time and space scales in each of the systems. Further, a strong climate signal exists in these systems, manifest in the interannual, interdecadal and longer term variability. Part of the variability appears connected with background climatic variability.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Marine Sciences, METU, Erdemli, İçel, Turkey

    Emin Özsoy

  • Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Mikaelyan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sensitivity to Change

  • Book Subtitle: Black Sea, Baltic Sea and North Sea

  • Editors: Emin Özsoy, Alexander Mikaelyan

  • Series Title: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5758-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4535-0Published: 30 April 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6429-3Published: 05 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-5758-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-1839

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 516

  • Topics: Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Sciences

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