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- Title
Atmospheric Nutrient Input to the Baltic Sea from 1850 to 2006: A Reconstruction from Modeling Results and Historical Data.
- Authors
Ruoho-Airola, Tuija; Eilola, Kari; Savchuk, Oleg; Parviainen, Maija; Tarvainen, Virpi
- Abstract
In this study, a consistent basin-wise monthly time series of the atmospheric nutrient load to the Baltic Sea during 1850-2006 was compiled. Due to the lack of a long time series (1850-1960) of nutrient deposition to the Baltic Sea, the data set was compiled by combining a time series of deposition data at the Baltic Nest Institute from 1970 to 2006, published historical monitoring data and deposition estimates, as well as recent modeled Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) emission estimates. The procedure for nitrogen compounds included estimation of the deposition in a few intermediate reference years, linear interpolation between them, and the decomposition of annual deposition into a seasonal deposition pattern. As no reliable monitoring results were found for the atmospheric deposition of phosphorus during the early period of our study, we used published estimates for the temporal and spatial pattern of the phosphorus load.
- Subjects
BALTIC Sea; NUTRIENT pollution of water; ATMOSPHERIC deposition; TIME series analysis; NITROGEN compounds &; the environment
- Publication
AMBIO - A Journal of the Human Environment, 2012, Vol 41, Issue 6, p549
- ISSN
0044-7447
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13280-012-0319-9