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Excess seawater salinity in the Puck Lagoon, a shallow part of Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea)

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: New detailed results on seawater salinity in the shallow part of Puck Bay (Puck Lagoon) obtained during the summer of 2020–2022 are presented. Water with salinity >7.5 g∙kg−1, even up to 7.7 g∙kg−1, occupied most of the lagoon area. The water in Puck Lagoon was clearly more saline than the water in the surface layer in the deep part of Puck Bay. A hypothesis is formulated that the observed increase in salinity in the Puck Lagoon was caused by sea surface evaporation when precipitation was distinctly reduced.

Source: Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies

DOI: 10.26881/oahs-2025.1.05

Authors: Maciej Matciak, Marta Małgorzata Misiewicz, Lena Szymanek, Weronika Sowińska

Institutions: University of Gdańsk, National Marine Fisheries Research Institute

Language: English

Topic: Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Subfield: Oceanography

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life below water

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4409703237

FWCI: 0.509

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