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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

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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.
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