Cruise report from R/V DANA week 4-6, 2019

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The expedition was included within SLU s International Bottom Trawl Survey and covered the Skagerrak and the Kattegat. Mapping of winter nutrient conditions was performed in the Skagerrak and 14 stations with complete hydrography were sampled. In the Kattegat area 12 stations were sampled with ctd Last updated:

Measurements of total ozone 1997 - 1999.

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intercomparison between ground based and TOMS Version 7 satellite based data shows an astonishing agreement in most cases. Data recorded at Abisko in 1926 and 1927 on the initiative of G.M.B. Dobson was found in the archive. They were recomputed to modem scales and the result shows that the thickness of the ozone Last updated:

Cruise report from R/V DANA week 34-35, 2018

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The expedition was included within SLU s International Bottom Trawl Survey and covered the Skagerrak and the Kattegat. Also during the expedition, SMHIs standard frequent stations were visited. In Skagerrak 9 stations with complete hydrography were sampled in the Skagerrak and 12 stations in the Last updated:

El Niño and other peculiarities at the equator

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kind of “hill” of warm water is created. The prevailing trade winds provide the resistance to stop the warm water sliding “downhill”. But there is a narrow gap in the dominant easterly wind, where the trades from both hemispheres meet in the inter-tropical convergence zone. The winds there are weak and Last updated:

Impressions from the WCRP JSC-41 Conference in May 2020

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requires answers and input; WCRP with its partners stand ready to live up to those expectations," says Detlef Stammer.  Now there is homework to do including lots of consultations, brainstorming among and across the core activities of the WCRP and with the partners. It will also include regional Last updated:

REGTREND

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models over Europe and Sweden. It is important to find out to which degree the regional model simulations cover the climate change uncertainties and if there are systematic differences in the climate change signals between regional and global model simulations. Combining the probabilistic information Last updated:

Algae report number 3, 2019

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ciliate Mesodinium rubrum and the dinoflagellate Peridiniella catenata. The bloom was the most intense at BY5 and Ref M1V1 in the southern Baltic Proper where both chlorophyll concentrations and cell numbers were high. At BY5, Ref M1V1, BY32 and BY38, the integrated chlorophyll concentrations (0-20 m Last updated:

North pole soon to be ice free in summer

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The Arctic Ocean in summer will very likely be ice free before 2050, at least temporally. The efficacy of climate-protection measures will determine how often and for how long. These are the results of a new research study involving 21 research institutes from around the world, coordinated by Dirk Last updated:

Algae report number 5, 2019

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at all stations. The potentially toxic dinoflagellate genus Dinophysis* was found in relatively high numbers at a few stations. The integrated chlorophyll concentrations were low and sometimes even below normal for the month. Dnr S/Gbg-2019-66 2Below follows a more detailed information on species Last updated:

The status of the Baltic Sea was thoroughly monitored in the Finnish-Swedish collaboration

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  caused by exceptional storms over Denmark in November-December 2013. Inflows of saline water into the Baltic Sea trough the Sound have occured during late 2013 and in the beginning of 2014. During the period from late October to early November there was an inflow trough the Sound of approximately 40 km3 Last updated: