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List of Tables 
Atmospheric Physics 
Table 2-1: Calendar of daily weather types in 2004. Red: C & CDIR; Blue: A & ADIR; Bold (+, ++]: 
Gale (severe, very severe) 39 
Table 2-2: Contingency table of weather types in 2004 (%) 39 
Table 2-3: North Sea Windstatistics. Means and standard deviations (m/s) for zonal (u, s u ) and 
meridional wind components (v, s v ), vector wind and direction (V, V djr ), velocity (Vel), persis 
tence (V/Veiin %), and »area« of 50%-probability ellipse (FE 50 = 1.3863 7rs a s b inJ/kg). ...53 
Physical Oceanography 
Table 3-1: Calendar of daily circulation patterns in the German Bight in 2004 69 
Table 3-2: Wave height statistics (model data, all entries in m). The 90th percentile divides the 
waveheight distribution 9:1. For a location map cf. Fig. 3-9, p.75 76 
Table 3-3: Local wave height and wind speed statistics supplementary to Fig. 3-11 and Fig. 3-12. 
For a location map cf. Fig. 3-9, p.75 79 
Table 3-4: Percent frequency distribution of significant wave height (SWFi) nearFlelgoland (wa- 
verider data, no wave direction) 79 
Table 3-5: Censored percent frequency distribution of wind speed and direction at light vessel 
>Deutsche Bucht< in 2004 (WAM-Forcing, DWD) 81 
Table 3-6: Same as Table 3-5, but for windsea (WAM-Model, DWD) 81 
Table 3-7: Censored percent frequency distribution of wind speed and direction at >Ekofisk< in 
2004 (WAM-Forcing, DWD) 83 
Table 3-8: Same as Table 3-7, but for windsea (WAM-Model, DWD) 83 
Table 3-9: Heat content along 56 °N during 1998 - 2004 102 
Table 3-10: Fractional North Sea area (%) with near-bottom salinity exceeding 35 (Atlantic wa 
ter) mit Win ter NAO-Index (Loewe and Koslowski 1998) 106 
Marine Chemistry 
Table 4-1: Estimated nutrient concentrations with 95% prediction limits (jumoi/L) for coastal 
water (S 30 ) and sea water of the German Bight proper (S 33 ) 125 
Table 4-2: Concentrations ofn-Alkanes in German Bight sea water in August 2004 157 
Table 4-3: Regional average concentrations (ng/L) of some polar pesticides in the German Bight 
in August 2004. (LoD = Limit of Detection.) 168 
Table 4-4: Background concentrations of cadmium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc in the dis 
solved fraction (water) and in sediment (< 20 pm). Water: OSPAR region >Greater North Sea<, 
sediment: BSH sediment core samples from the German Bight 775 
Table 4-5: Dissolved metal concentrations in the German Bight in Jan/Feb 2004. Samples strat 
ified as to salinity, concentrations in ng/L 178 
Table 4-6: Fine grain fractions (f20) and metal concentrations in surface sediments from 
trendmonitoring areas in the German Bight in 2004. Means and standard deviations in mg/ 
kg, except iron and fine grain fraction (%). For a location mapcf. Fig. 4-42, p. 182 183 
Table 4-7: Activity of some natural radio nuclides for North Sea sea-water and sediment... 188