scholarly journals Holocene sea-level changes and glacio-isostasy in the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

2004 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arto Miettinen
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Gulf Of Finland ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
The Gulf Of Finland ◽  
Holocene Sea Level

Sea level changes and Neolithic hunter-fisher-gatherers in the centre of Tallinn, southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

The Holocene ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 917-928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merle Muru ◽  
Alar Rosentau ◽  
Aivar Kriiska ◽  
Lembi Lõugas ◽  
Ulla Kadakas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Gulf Of Finland ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Settlement Site ◽  
The Gulf Of Finland

Relative sea level (RSL) changes and the palaeogeography of a Neolithic hunter-fisher-gatherer settlement site on the former shore of the Gulf of Finland in the city centre of Tallinn were reconstructed by implementing GIS in landscape modelling based on archaeological, sedimentary and shore displacement data. AMS radiocarbon dating of mammal bones from the cultural layer suggests the existence of the hunter-fisher-gatherer settlement around 5.1–4.8 cal. ka BP on a seaward inclining sandy beach of Tallinn palaeo-bay c. 100 m from the Litorina Sea shoreline and at about 2.4 m above the coeval sea level. The shoreline passed the study site at about 5.8 cal. ka BP and retreated towards northeast with an average speed of 13 m per century, while the RSL lowered by c. 2.5 mm annually. Combining radiocarbon dates of terrestrial and marine mammal bones from the Neolithic cultural layer, a marine reservoir effect of 350 14C years for the brackish-water Baltic Sea was calculated. By using high-resolution archaeological data in combination with RSL and other geological proxies, we demonstrate new possibilities to reconstruct the palaeoenvironment of deeply buried coastal settlement sites and to predict a possible continuation of the cultural layer in heavily built-up areas.

Late Holocene sea-level changes along the southern coast of Finland, Baltic Sea

2007 ◽  
Vol 242 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 27-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arto Miettinen ◽  
Henrik Jansson ◽  
Teija Alenius ◽  
Georg Haggrén
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Holocene Sea Level

scholarly journals Storm surges in the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeny A. Zakharchuk ◽  
◽  
Vladimir N. Sukhachev ◽  
Natal'ia A. Tikhonova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Storm Surges ◽  
Gulf Of Finland ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Gulf Of Finland

The characteristics of storm surges in different regions of the Gulf of Finland in the second half of the XX and the beginning of the XXI centuries were investigated on the basis of tide gauge measurements of sea level, instrumental observations of the wind and data from the reanalysis of meteorological fields. A criterion for identifying storm surges, taking into account spatial changes in their intensity, is proposed. The results indicate that depending on the year and the location of the station, the number of storm surges varies in the Gulf of Finland in a wide range: from 0 - 1 to 16 - 52 cases per year. The average duration of storm surges varies from 6.7 to 9.0 hours, and the maximum reaches 26 to 96 hours. Shown that in recent decades, in most regions, there has been a tendency towards a decrease in the number of storm surges, their dispersion and sea level maximum. The distributions of the probabilities of wind and atmospheric pressure during storm surges are given. Estimates of two-dimensional probability densities indicate that during storm surges, winds blowing from the west and southwest with speeds of 4-13 m / s are most likely. At the northern coast and at the top of the bay, the most probable values of atmospheric pressure during storm surges are 995 hPa. On the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, atmospheric pressure values of 1005 - 1015 hPa are most likely. The results obtained indicate that the atmospheric pressure over the Gulf of Finland during storm surges is not very low. This is due to the fact that the trajectories of the centers of cyclones causing storm surges pass north of the Gulf of Finland. Analysis of meteorological information also showed the presence of significant negative trends in interannual variations in the dispersion of the horizontal atmospheric pressure gradient, average values and maximums of wind speed. It is concluded that the revealed changes in the characteristics of storm surges are associated with a decrease in the intensity of cyclogenesis in the atmosphere over the Baltic Sea in recent decades.

Variability of the Baltic Sea level and floods in the Gulf of Finland

Oceanology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Kulikov ◽  
I. P. Medvedev
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Gulf Of Finland ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Gulf Of Finland

scholarly journals Indicators of Holocene sea level changes along the coast of the states of Pernambuco and Paraíba, Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenitiro Suguio ◽  
Alcina Magnуlia Franco Barreto ◽  
Paulo Eduardo de Oliveira ◽  
Francisco Hilário Rego Bezerra ◽  
Maria Cristina Santiago Hussein Vilela
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Holocene Sea Level

The mussel caging approach in assessing biological effects of wastewater treatment plant discharges in the Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea)

2015 ◽  
Vol 97 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raisa Turja ◽  
Kari K. Lehtonen ◽  
Axel Meierjohann ◽  
Jenny-Maria Brozinski ◽  
Emil Vahtera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Gulf Of Finland ◽  
The Gulf Of Finland

scholarly journals An integrated simulation model to evaluate national measures for the abatement of agricultural nutrients in the Baltic Sea

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 440-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. HYYTIÄINEN ◽  
H. AHTIAINEN ◽  
J. HEIKKILÄ
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Gulf Of Finland ◽  
Nutrient Loads ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Bothnian Bay ◽  
The Gulf Of Finland

This study introduces a prototype model for evaluating measures to abate agricultural nutrients in the Baltic Sea from a Finnish national perspective. The stochastic simulation model integrates nutrient dynamics of nitrogen and phosphorus in the sea basins adjoining the Finnish coast, nutrient loads from land and other sources, benefits from nutrient abatement (in the form of recreation and other ecosystem services) and the costs of agricultural abatement activities. The aim of the study is to present the overall structure of the model and to demonstrate its potential using preliminary parameters. The model is made flexible for further improvements in all of its ecological and economic components. The results of a sensitivity analysis suggest that investments in reducing the nutrient load from arable land in Finland would become profitable only if the neighboring countries in the northern Baltic committed themselves to similar reductions. Environmental investments for improving water quality yield the highest returns for the Bothnian Bay and the Gulf of Finland, with smaller returns for the Bothnian Sea. Somewhat surprisingly, in the Bothnian Bay the abatement activities become profitable from the national viewpoint, because the riverine loads from Finland represent a high proportion of the total nutrient loads. In the Gulf of Finland, this proportion is low, but the size of the coastal population benefiting from improved water quality is high.;

Three new chrysophycean stomatocysts with long spines from the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea

Phytotaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 528 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-260
Author(s):  
SVETLANA N. SHADRINA
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Gulf Of Finland ◽  
Sem Micrographs ◽  
Biological Affinity ◽  
The Gulf Of Finland

Three new morphotypes of chrysophycean stomatocysts with long spines are described following International Statospore Working Group (ISWG) guidelines and illustrated by SEM micrographs. Differences of our new morphotypes from known stomatocysts are discussed. Their biological affinity is currently unknown.

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