| Abstract: | On the basis of the results derived by theoretical analysis 1] and laboratory physical modelling 2] of the circulation seawater
and stratification, induced by buoyancy fluxes, the suggestion has been made that, possibly, the Black Sea currents system
is three-layered. It has been supposed that an anticyclonic current flows in the basin.
To verify this deduction, the data from MHI's archived dataset have been treated, and results from twoad hoc expeditions are submitted here. Analysis of the vertical structure of currents, based on thein situ velocity measurements, using various means and calculations of the geostrophic circulation, has confirmed that a flow with
the theoretically predicted parameters may exist in the Black Sea.
Translated by Vladimir A. Puchkin. |
