SOME FEATURES OF THE BLACK SEA SEASONAL THERMOHALINE VARIABILITY: MODERN VIEW

Valentin Tuzhilkin

doi:10.24057/2071-9388-2010-3-2-42-50

SOME FEATURES OF THE BLACK SEA SEASONAL THERMOHALINE VARIABILITY: MODERN VIEW

Valentin Tuzhilkin

https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2010-3-2-42-50

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Abstract

Results of statistical processing and physical analyses of the historical and recent hydrographic data set are presented. Seasonal thermohaline (hydrographic) variabilities of the Black Sea main baroclinic layer (0–200 m) are considered. In the upper 50-m layer, seasonal thermohaline variability is generated mainly by the heat and freshwater fluxes across the sea surface. In the main pycnocline between depths of 50 and 200 m it is caused by the flux of the wind-stress relative vorticity. Thermohaline effects of these processes are described.

Keywords

The Black Sea, temperature, salinity, seasonal variability

About the Author

Valentin Tuzhilkin

Russian Federation
Professor, Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1, 119991, Moscow, Russia

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Tuzhilkin V. SOME FEATURES OF THE BLACK SEA SEASONAL THERMOHALINE VARIABILITY: MODERN VIEW. GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. 2010;3(2):42-50. https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2010-3-2-42-50