Nordsee und Deutsche Bucht 2002 BSH 85 Table Index Table 2-1 NAO Index 2002. Ik: Ponta Delgada & Akureyri (Loewe und Koslowski 1998), Ipf6(lk): low-pass filtered (6 month), cruuea: Gibraltar & Southwest Island (www.cru.uea. ac.uk/~timo/projpages/nao_update.htm). hurrell: Ponta Delgada & Stykkisholmur (www. cgd.ucar.edu/~jhurrell/nao.stat.other.html). cpccdb: Amplitude of NAO pattern from rotated principal component analysis of 700 hPa height anomalies (www.cpc.ncep.noaa. gov/ data/teledoc.nao.html) 18 Table 3-1 Censored percent frequency distribution of wind speed and direction at UFS-DB.50 Table 3-2 Censored percent frequency distribution of significant wave height (swh) and wave direction at UFS-DB (model data). States swh=0 (15% of the time) not included 50 Table 3-3 Percent frequency distribution of significant wave height (swh) near Helgoland (Waverider data, no wave direction sensor) 51 Table 3-4 Nutrient concentrations (pmol/l) for characteristic water masses in January 2002. 60 Table 3-5 Nutrient-Salinity correlations in winter 2002 (January, 10 - March, 20) at MARNET Station Deutsche Bucht 62