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HYDROBIOLOGIA
Volume 554, Issue -, Pages 57-65Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-005-1006-7
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Arkona Sea; Baltic; Gulf of Finland; Northern Baltic Proper; phytoplankton; spring bloom; indicator
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We introduce an index for estimating the annual phytoplankton spring bloom intensity in the Baltic Sea. It is based on chlorophyll a estimates calculated from automatically sampled fluorescence and chlorophyll a measurements on board cargo ships from 1992 to 2004. The intensity is described by an index including information on the chlorophyll a concentration and duration of the spring bloom period. In all of the years studied, the spring bloom was most intense in the Gulf of Finland. In the Gulf of Finland and the Northern Baltic Proper there was a slight tendency for the bloom to start earlier in the spring.
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