1. Preface

   • Peter Ehlers

   EditorialNotes Pages: 5 - 6

2. Vorwort

   • Peter Ehlers

   EditorialNotes Pages: 6 - 7

3. Advective contributions to the heat balance of the german bight (LV Elbe 1) and the central north sea (OWS Famita)

   • Andreas Moll
   • Günther Radach

   Articles Pages: 9 - 31

4. Sea ice winter severity in the german baltic in a greenhouse gas experiment

   • Birger Tinz

   Articles Pages: 33 - 45

5. The baltic sea in 1997-impacts of the extremely warm summer and of the exceptional oder flood

   • Wolfgang Matthäus
   • Günther Nausch
   • Herbert Siegel

   Letters Pages: 47 - 69

6. Surface temperatures of the north sea in 1997

   • Peter Loewe

   Letters Pages: 71 - 80

7. The ice winter of 1997/98 on the german coasts between ems and oder, with a survey of the entire baltic sea

   • Klaus Strübing

   Letters Pages: 81 - 89

8. Ice conditions in zalew szczeciński (stettiner haff) and in zatoka pomorska (pommersche bucht) during the winter of 1997/98

   • Natalija Schmelzer
   • Marzenna Sztobryn
   • Ida Stanisławczyk

   Letters Pages: 91 - 95

9. The geomagnetic field in 1997 according to measurements of the geomagnetic observatory wingst

   • Günter Schulz

   Letters Pages: 97 - 100