German Baltic Sea coast

Among the heaviest tempests of the B altic Sea and correspondingly at the German Baltic Sea coast rank the gales. Because an eye is also formed in the center of heavy Baltic Sea gales, one can call them the small hurricanes of the Baltic Sea (Fig. 4.1). 

A statistic of the wind of Warnemunde since the end of World War II, shows that at the German Baltic Sea coast each year one or two days on average appeared with gale gusts... 

The second strongest storm surge at the German Baltic Sea coast occurred in 1913 with 189 cm (Fig. 4.10) - followed by the storm surge of 1904 with 188 cm mean surge level. 

At the German Baltic Sea coast, there are two particularly pronounced types of storm surges and corresponding large-scale weather situations ( GroBwetterlagen ), which Kohlmetz (1964) dealt with meteorologically in great detail. 

Only during their displacement the lows develop their cyclonic character. In this case they start moving very fast in the form of energy-rich small-scale eddies, like blizzards, in a strong northeasterly surface flow in direction to the German Baltic Sea coast. 

Thus, at northwest wind, repeatedly the highest wind velocities of the German Baltic Sea coast are measured at the particular coast region of Warnemunde, sometimes even of the entire German North Sea and Baltic Sea coast (Table 4.1). 

Every ice class stands for typical attributes concerning duration of the ice season, ice thickness, and ice concentration. Table 8.4 shows these characteristics for different areas of the German Baltic Sea coast. 

Coastal Wind-Driven Processes along the German Baltic Sea Coast... 

Siegel, H., Seifert, T., Gerth, M., Ohde, T., Reiflmann, J., Schemewski, G., 2004. Dynamical processes along the German Baltic Sea coast systematized to support coastal monitoring. In Schemewski, G., Loser, N. (Eds.), Managing the Baltic Sea. Coastline Reports 2, ISSN 0928-2734, pp. 219-226. 

At the end of the war British sailors loaded twenty elderly merchant vessels with captured German gas shells, and sailed them into the Baltic. Off the coast of Norway they donned gas masks, placed explosive charges aboard, and then watched as, one by one, the ships exploded, taking tens of thousands of tons of gas to the seabed. From bases in Scotland, one hundred thousand tons of British gas weapons were taken out to sea and sunk. In the Far East American sailors sank captured Japanese weapons in the Pacific. Mustard gas stocks which had fallen to the advancing Russian armies were tossed into the Baltic in wooden crates while machine gunners opened fire and sent them to the bottom of the sea.1... 

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