Contents
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Towards Mitigation of Environmental Risks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Part I
Modelling the Underlying Dynamics
2 Topography, Hydrography, Circulation and Modelling of the Baltic
Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Kai Myrberg and Andreas Lehmann
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Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and Ocean
Modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Tomas Torsvik
4
Studying the Baltic Sea Circulation with Eulerian Tracers . . . . . . 101
H.E. Markus Meier and Anders Höglund
5
European Semi-enclosed Seas: Basic Physical Processes and Their
Numerical Modelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Emil V. Stanev and Xi Lu
6 The Gulf of Finland, Its Hydrography and Circulation Dynamics . . 181
Kai Myrberg and Tarmo Soomere
Part II Lagrangian Dynamics and Inverse Problems
7
TRACMASS—A Lagrangian Trajectory Model . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Kristofer Döös, Joakim Kjellsson, and Bror Jönsson
8
Evaluation and Tuning of Model Trajectories and Spreading Rates
in the Baltic Sea Using Surface Drifter Observations . . . . . . . . . 251
Joakim Kjellsson, Kristofer Döös, and Tarmo Soomere
9
Statistics of Lagrangian Transport Reveals Hidden Features of
Velocity Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
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