Slupsk Channel

Paka, V. T, 1996. Thermohaline structure of the waters over the cross sections in the Slupsk Channel of the Baltic Sea in spring, 1993. Okeanologiya (Engl. Transl.), 36, 188-198. 

The salinity of the Bornholm Basin below the permanent halocline is a measure for the estimation of the impact of weak inflows on the central Baltic deep water. During periods of low inflow activity, salinity and thus density decreases in the deep water of the Bornholm Basin. Depending on the volume of saline water and its density, inflows below the MBI magnitude — but sometimes even MBIs — fill up only that basin, and the saline water does not pass to a greater extent the Slupsk Sill downstream through the Slupsk Channel into the Gotland Basin (cf. Fig. 10.2). 

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