Interannual oscillations of cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea

Mati Kahru 1*, Ragnar Elmgren 2, Emanuele di Lorenzo 3 and Oleg Savchuk 4

1Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0218, USA

2Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

3School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

4Baltic Nest Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

*email: mkahru@ucsd.edu

 

Supplemental Table 2. Time series of FCA and its first difference in the Northern Baltic Proper (NBP), Western Gotland basin (WGB) and Eastern Gotland Basin (EGB). The first difference values (NBP', WGB' and EGB') are derived by subtracting the  last year's FCA value. For locations see Fig. 2.

Year NBP WGB EGB NBP' WGB' EGB'
1979 16.39 12.67 12.47
1980 10.18 12.38 3.29 -6.22 -0.29 -9.18
1981 15.80 21.22 24.44 5.63 8.84 21.15
1982 1.75 12.68 11.69 -14.05 -8.54 -12.76
1983 18.90 17.86 20.78 17.15 5.18 9.09
1984 16.78 13.80 6.95 -2.12 -4.06 -13.83
1985 0.06 2.38 1.46 -16.72 -11.42 -5.50
1986 4.92 7.73 2.69 4.87 5.35 1.24
1987 0.85 0.00 0.33 -4.07 -7.73 -2.36
1988 5.08 2.52 3.33 4.22 2.52 3.00
1989 9.74 5.10 2.83 4.66 2.58 -0.50
1990 5.29 4.92 1.60 -4.45 -0.18 -1.24
1991 17.61 13.06 19.61 12.32 8.14 18.01
1992 29.25 8.61 17.90 11.64 -4.45 -1.71
1993 9.17 21.46 6.73 -20.08 12.85 -11.17
1994 21.44 22.07 24.44 12.27 0.61 17.71
1995 3.94 3.64 5.14 -17.50 -18.43 -19.30
1996 4.66 2.09 3.09 0.72 -1.55 -2.05
1997 31.56 24.97 11.16 26.90 22.87 8.07
1998 4.09 3.48 7.74 -27.47 -21.49 -3.42
1999 18.73 13.46 37.30 14.63 9.98 29.56
2000 29.95 28.35 25.71 11.23 14.89 -11.59
2001 4.91 8.01 4.69 -25.05 -20.34 -21.02
2002 33.50 15.61 17.61 28.60 7.61 12.92
2003 24.59 28.45 41.91 -8.91 12.83 24.29
2004 4.36 9.26 9.68 -20.24 -19.18 -32.23
2005 39.93 35.66 44.79 35.57 26.39 35.11
2006 4.49 9.83 14.00 -35.44 -25.82 -30.79
2007 17.76 2.21 7.24 13.28 -7.63 -6.76
2008 30.71 36.88 47.15 12.94 34.68 39.91
2009 6.45 7.66 5.70 -24.26 -29.22 -41.45
2010 15.66 5.03 10.96 9.21 -2.63 5.26
2011 39.71 19.64 18.56 24.05 14.61 7.60
2012 12.09 13.39 11.00 -27.62 -6.25 -7.56
2013 11.92 6.49 6.01 -0.17 -6.91 -4.99
2014 49.58 21.77 43.50 37.67 15.28 37.49
2015 35.79 25.63 19.23 -13.79 3.86 -24.26
2016 24.76 8.52 14.33 -11.04 -17.11 -4.90
2017 44.64 15.19 36.59 19.88 6.66 22.26