Salinity and temperature variability in the Baltic Sea under changing climate

The climate system of the Baltic Sea is affected by anthropogenic climate change but it also exhibits a strong natural variability on time scales from years to decades. In this dissertation, results of long regional ocean model runs and global climate model ensembles are used to gain new insights on the natural climate variability of the Baltic Sea and possible climate-change driven long-term changes. Two focus topics are changes in the seasonality of saltwater inflows into the Baltic Sea and remote effects from the North Atlantic on Baltic Sea salinity and temperature variability.