BALTIC Atlas Data

The BALTIC (Baltic Atlas of Long-Term Inventory and Climatology) data set, version 1, 

TEMP monthly.asc is the main data file, containing the time series 1900-2005 of monthly mean values over each 1 °x 1 °x 10 m BALTIC grid cell, together with minimum, maximum, root mean square and sample count. It is a large plain ASCII file structured as shown in Table 11.10 in Chapter 11. 

TEMP climate.asc is the mean seasonal cycle computed from TEMP monthly.asc by averaging over all available years for the particular month and BALTIC cell. 

TEMP maps.pdf is a set of 13 spatial maps showing the surface values from TEMP -climate.asc printed onto the Baltic Sea contours for convenient lookup. It is not available for DOXY and HSUL. 

TEMP bnd.txt contains the plausibility limits used for error-checking the original data. It is not available for HSUL that is included in DOXY bnd.txt by negative limits. 

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The backbone of the BALTIC atlas is the data holding in the lOW database, collected... 

NERI data 1952-1977 included in BALTIC atlas exceed significantly the data set Denmark is regularly delivering to the ICES database. 

In Chapter 11 it is described in detail how the BALTIC atlas was constructed, which data were exploited and which uncertainties can be estimated. 

The data of the BALTIC atlas can be freely used for noncommercial purposes provided notice is given to the BALTIC project. 

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