Seasonal Variations and Transformations of Climatic Currents with Depth on the Basis of Assimilation of New Climatic Data on Temperature and Salinity in a Model of the Black Sea |
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Authors: | S G Demyshev V V Knysh N V Inyushina |
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Institution: | (1) Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Ukraine |
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Abstract: | The seasonal climatic circulation of the sea reconstructed on the basis of assimilation of new arrays of many-year average
hydrological data in a model is analyzed. Five layers are discovered in the structure of climatic currents in the sea in depth:
the surface Ekman layer (∼ 10 m), a layer with small vertical gradients of the kinetic energy (∼ 10–60 m), a layer with relatively
high vertical gradients of the kinetic energy (∼ 60–150 m), a layer with gradual decrease in the kinetic energy and intensification
(from 250–350 m) of the east cyclonic gyre and Batumi anticyclonic eddy (∼ 150–1000 m), and an abyssal layer characterized
by an almost barotropic velocity (∼ 1000–2000 m). The specific features of the seasonal evolution of currents at these depths
are investigated. It is shown that the key role in the formation of deep-water circulation of the sea is played by the south
east flow, east cyclonic gyre, and Batumi anticyclonic eddy.
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Translated from Morskoi Gidrofizicheskii Zhurnal, No. 6, pp. 28–45, November–December, 2005. |
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