Articles | Volume 20, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-69-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-69-2024
Research article
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17 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 17 Jan 2024

Transport dynamics in a complex coastal archipelago

Elina Miettunen, Laura Tuomi, Antti Westerlund, Hedi Kanarik, and Kai Myrberg

Data sets

ERA5 hourly data on single levels from 1979 to present H. Hersbach et al. https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.adbb2d47

Model code and software

nemo-archs A. Westerlund and E. Miettunen https://github.com/fmidev/nemo-archs

NEMO ocean engine G. Madec and the NEMO System Team https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3878122

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Short summary
We studied circulation and transports in the Archipelago Sea (in the Baltic Sea) with a high-resolution hydrodynamic model. Transport dynamics show different variabilities in the north and south, so no single transect can represent transport through the whole area in all cases. The net transport in the surface layer is southward and follows the alignment of the deeper channels. In the lower layer, the net transport is southward in the northern part of the area and northward in the southern part.