Excess seawater salinity in the Puck Lagoon, a shallow part of Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea)

Matciak, Maciej; Misiewicz, Marta Małgorzata; Szymanek, Lena; Sowińska, Weronika

doi:10.26881/oahs-2025.1.05

Abstract

New detailed results on seawater salinity in the shallow part of Puck Bay (Puck Lagoon) obtained during the summer of 2020–2022 are presented. Water with salinity >7.5 g∙kg⁻¹, even up to 7.7 g∙kg⁻¹, occupied most of the lagoon area. The water in Puck Lagoon was clearly more saline than the water in the surface layer in the deep part of Puck Bay. A hypothesis is formulated that the observed increase in salinity in the Puck Lagoon was caused by sea surface evaporation when precipitation was distinctly reduced.

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Excess seawater salinity in the Puck Lagoon, a shallow part of Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea)

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