Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2008 M01 22 - 474 pages

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest scientific findings in regional climate research on the Baltic Sea basin. This includes climate changes in the recent past, climate projections up until 2100 using the most sophisticated regional climate models available, and an assessment of climate change impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. The authors demonstrate that the regional climate has already started to change, and will continue to do so.

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Contents

Introduction and Summary
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3
13
Past and Current Climate Change
35
Projections of Future Anthropogenic Climate Change
133
Climaterelated Change in Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems
221
Climaterelated Marine Ecosystem Change
309
A Annexes
379
Acronyms and Abbreviations
469
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