1 ICE CONDITIONS IN THE BALTIC SEA

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1026.1024; http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.baztech-de0e0457-6d4d-47e7-88e1-5090c7013dc7/c/Sea_Ice_Services_in_the_Baltic_Sea.pdf

Baltic Sea is a semi-closed, tide less and compara-tively dismembered sea. Its low salinity varies from about 20 %o in the Belts waters to about 1%o to 4%o in the north-eastern basins. The differentiation of salinity, bathymetry, the latitudinal and continen-tal (climatic) influences generates significant inho-mogeneity of freezing conditions in different basins of the sea. Some of the basins freeze each winter, the other only rarely, during exceptionally severe win-ters. In order to be able to compare the winter condi-tions in different years or in different basins of the sea, some scales of winter severity are in use. Ac-cording to one of them (sea ice severity index Sreg, after Sztobryn et al.,2008) three types of winters were distinguished (mild, normal and severe) and a