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terizing this potential are used for the construction of optimal fairways and the best
locations of potentially dangerous activities. Finally, applications of the developed
technology for solving certain problems of maritime spatial planning are discussed
together with new possibilities for express methods for testing the vulnerability of
a particular sea area, the applicability of the entire approach and direct estimates of
the potential benefit from the new fairway designs.
The chapters are written in a tutorial style; they are mostly self-contained and understandable for non-specialist researchers and students. The goal was to highlight
all key steps, methods, models and data sets necessary to be combined in order to
produce the practically usable technology and/or decision support system for a particular sea domain. The book was designed not only as a description and a manual of
the particular technology but also as a roadmap highlighting complicated technical
issues of ocean modelling for practical purposes that are frequently hidden deep in
model manuals.
To ensure the scientific quality of the contributions, each chapter was carefully
reviewed by two to four independent experts, with at least one from outside the
Baltic Sea science community. Special thanks go to all authors and referees, without
whom the making of this book would not have been possible. Finally, financial and
mental support by the BONUS initiative during all phases of the preparation of this
book is warmly acknowledged.
Tarmo Soomere
Ewald Quak
Tallinn, Estonia
March 2013
Preface
terizing this potential are used for the construction of optimal fairways and the best
locations of potentially dangerous activities. Finally, applications of the developed
technology for solving certain problems of maritime spatial planning are discussed
together with new possibilities for express methods for testing the vulnerability of
a particular sea area, the applicability of the entire approach and direct estimates of
the potential benefit from the new fairway designs.
The chapters are written in a tutorial style; they are mostly self-contained and understandable for non-specialist researchers and students. The goal was to highlight
all key steps, methods, models and data sets necessary to be combined in order to
produce the practically usable technology and/or decision support system for a particular sea domain. The book was designed not only as a description and a manual of
the particular technology but also as a roadmap highlighting complicated technical
issues of ocean modelling for practical purposes that are frequently hidden deep in
model manuals.
To ensure the scientific quality of the contributions, each chapter was carefully
reviewed by two to four independent experts, with at least one from outside the
Baltic Sea science community. Special thanks go to all authors and referees, without
whom the making of this book would not have been possible. Finally, financial and
mental support by the BONUS initiative during all phases of the preparation of this
book is warmly acknowledged.
Tarmo Soomere
Ewald Quak
Tallinn, Estonia
March 2013