Bog ; Coastal dynamics ; Coastal environment ; Foraminifera ; Global change ; Indicator ; Quaternary ; Sea level
This report examines recent developments in relation to present (and anticipated future) sea level, Quaternary sea-level fluctuations, the response of coastal landforms to sea-level change and the use of biological indicators of sea-level change.
Relationship between the decrease of sea ice and early summer atmospheric circulation in and around the Sea of Okhotsk
Anticyclone ; Atmospheric circulation ; Ocean atmosphere interaction ; Pacific Region ; Sea ice ; Time series ; Years 1970-79 ; Years 1980-89 ; Years 1990-99
The aim of this study is to clarify the relationships between the variability in sea ice area in the Sea of Okhotsk during the sea ice disappearance period, and the variability in the atmospheric circulation around the sea of Okhotsk during
the early summer, focused on the effects of the sea ice on the atmosphere. A strengthening of the Okhotsk anticyclone is presumed to be related to variability in the decrease in sea ice in the Sea of Okhotsk.
This report will concentrate on aspects of Quaternary sea-level change, summaries of trends in sea-level over recent decades from tide gauges, and predictions of future sea-level change and the anticipated responses of the coast.
This is a pioneer work to carry out a detailed study of sea ice pressure ridges in the Baltic Sea. The results are based on field measurements. They include measurements of such as the inside structure of ridges and the orientation of ice blocks
in the ridges sails. The aim of this paper is to serve as a basic information about the structure, morphology and distribution of the pressure ridges in the Baltic Sea. The results are compared with the information about the ridges in the Arctic Seas.
Introduction to the geomorphology of the Wadden Sea area in Geomorphology of the Wadden Sea area, final report of the section Geomorphology of the Wadden Sea Working Group.
Main features of the development of the Wadden Sea area are described: limitation of the area, the rise of the sea level since the Weichselian Glaciation, the sediment balance, the coastal development and the international position of the Wadden Sea
Ecological and geographical characteristics of the coastal zone of the Black Sea
Black Sea environment
Black Sea ; Coastal environment ; Ecology ; Geosystem ; Land use ; Rill wash;Runoff
The coastal zone of the Black Sea is viewed as marine terrestrial geosystem. This article largely treats the terrestrial part of the coastal zone of the Black Sea and provides information on the landscapes, the structure of land use
Caspienne Sea ; Climatic variation ; Climatic warming ; Eurasia ; Forecast;Prediction ; Ground survey ; Salt lake ; Sea ; Sea level ; Water balance
The article deals with issues of structure and dynamics of the Caspian Sea water balance. An attempt has been undertaken to present a scenario of possible sea-level position of the Caspian Sea with the versions of climatic changes at the end
The impact of recreation in the Black Sea region on surface and sea water quality―Sochi case study
Black Sea environment
Black Sea ; Coastal environment ; Human impact ; Pollution ; Recreation area ; Water quality
Sochi, the largest health resort in the country, is taken as an example to analyze a negative anthropogenic impact on the Black Sea coast environment, in particular on surface and sea waters. The paper gives the results of an integrated pollution
This study provides new observational data of coastal development and sea-level change for the Baltic Sea region, and aims to test the applicability of geochemical tracers. Specific attention is given to 1) compositional variations within the Oder
Sea level, surface salinity of the Japan Sea, and the Younger Dryas event in the northwestern Pacific Ocean
Climatic variation ; Geochronology ; Marine quaternary ; Oceanology ; Oxygen 18 ; Pacific Ocean;Pacific Region ; Paleo-environment ; Salinity ; Sea level ; Sea of Japan ; Surface water
The AA. review some of the latest Quaternary paleoenvironmental changes in the Japan Sea, and discuss possible mechanisms linking sea level change driven primarily by North Atlantic events and a Younger Dryas-type oscillation in the northwest
Form elements of the Wadden Sea area in Geomorphology of the Wadden Sea area, final report of the section Geomorphology of the Wadden Sea Working Group.
The landscapes and form elements of the Wadden Sea region are predominantly of marine origin, but as they have developed along with a general rise in sea level and a transgression of the coastal region, the landscape details are of a very complex
The Aral Sea basin. A Man-made environmental catastrophe
Aral Region ; Former USSR ; Hydrochemistry ; Hydrology ; Precipitation ; Salinity ; Sea level ; Sea water ; Soviet Central Asia ; Stream flow
The estimate of the salt balance of the Aral Sea is of general importance when considering the problem of the necessity and possibility to keep the Aral Sea in definite borders. The A. considers in detail every point of the salt balance before
the sea level dropped: surface (river and irrigation) drainage; underground discharge of dissolved salts to the Aral Sea; salts income with liquid and solid precipitation; deflation of salts to the atmosphere, from the sea surface; accumulation in the bays
; alteration of the principal components of the sea salt budget during the last 30 years.
Forecast ; Global change ; Greenhouse effect ; New Zealand ; Sea level
This paper concerns a few of many important aspects of the treatment given to sea-level rise postulated to attend global warming under the greenhouse warming group of hypotheses. Particular atteention is paid to the last 5 years of this debate.
Can better environmental inputs improve sea clutter estimation? A numerical experiment
Examines the effects of better environmental inputs to a sea clutter model. Outlines and discuss the way of improving the existing sea clutter models. - (CB)
Biohydrochemical causes of the changes of Black Sea ecosystem and its present condition
Black Sea environment
Biogeochemistry ; Black Sea ; Ecosystem ; Human impact ; Marine environment ; Nitrate ; Phosphate ; Pollution
The permanent growth of phosphate, nitrogen and silicon results from the construction of numerous hydroelectric power-stations on all the great rivers flowing to the Black Sea. Most of silicon is accumulated in the reservoirs where phytoplankton
is rapidly developed, and instead of phosphates and nitrates, organic compounds of these elements flow out to the sea. This has caused the essential transformation of the whole Black Sea ecosystem.
Bathymetry ; Black Sea ; Current ; Echosounding ; Flood ; Holocene ; Marine quaternary ; Palaeo-environment
Echo-sounding data recorded in the Black Sea in 1969 imaged a chain of hills 5- to 150-m high at a depth of 2000-2200 m that resemble hills on the lower continental rise. Like those hills, the features in the western Black Sea may have been created
by bottom currents. The easterly flowing currents inferred to have formed the hills may be related to a catastrophic flood of the Black Sea from the Sea of Marmara 7150 yr ago.
Geomorphological response of the East Frisian barrier islands to sea-level rise: an investigation of past and future evolution
Climatic warming ; Deglaciation ; Germany ; Global change ; Greenhouse effect ; Holocene ; Island ; Lagoon ; Model ; Nature conservation ; North Sea ; Quaternary ; Sea level
Post-glacial sea-level rise has resulted in shoreline erosion in many places. Sandy barrier islands migrate in a landward direction in order to compensate for the rise in sea-level. Several models for the possible response of the East Frisian
barrier islands and tidal flats to the Holocene sea-level rise are summarized.