Water Circulation in the Northern Black Sea in Summer 2016 (Based on the Data Obtained in the 87th Cruise of the R/V Professor Vodyanitsky)

Yu. V. Artamonov, S. A. Shutov, E. A. Skripaleva✉, R. O. Shapovalov, A. V. Fedirko, S. V. Shcherbachenko

Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Russian Federation

✉ e-mail: akordzadze@yahoo.com

Abstract

The present work represents the results of water circulation in the northern Black Sea analyzed based on the data of the surveys carried out in the 87th cruise of R/V Professor Vodyanitsky in July 2016. It is shown that during the survey the westward flows being the Rim Current (RC) manifestation are predominant within the studied water area. Based on the survey data, the latitudinal location of the Rim Current geostrophical deep stream is close to its climatic position. In the western part of the polygon, the Rim Current is divided into three branches. The northern branch is located over the shelf, the central one – over the continental slope and the southern one – over the deep-sea regions. The Sevastopol anticyclone is characterized by extremely asymmetric vertical development: its northern periphery over the shelf is weak, whereas the southern periphery over the continental slope is intensive. In the central part of the polygon the Rim Current intensifies, at that one intensive stream is traced. In the eastern part of the polygon two branches of the Rim Current are observed: the intensive northern one over the continental slope and the coastal shelf, and the one located closer to the deep-sea regions (its velocity is rather low and it weakens moving eastward). In the upper layer to the east off Cape Ai-Todor, the anticyclonic gyre is observed; whereas within the 50–100 m below it, the cyclonic turn of the currents is revealed.

Keywords

the Black Sea, the Rim Current, Sevastopol anticyclonic gyre, water circulation, spatial-temporal variability

Acknowledgements

The research was carried out within the framework of State Order No. 0827-2015-0001 “Fundamental Research of the Processes in the Ocean – Atmosphere – Lithosphere System Determining Spatial-Temporal Variability of the Global and Regional Scale Environment and Climate”, No. 0827-2014-0010 "Complex Interdisciplinary Studies of Oceanographic Processes Determining the Functioning and Evolution of the Black and Azov Sea Ecosystem on the Basis of Modern Methods of Control of the Marine Environment and Gridtehnology".

Original russian text

Original Russian Text © The Authors, 2018, published in MORSKOY GIDROFIZICHESKIY ZHURNAL, Vol. 34, Iss. 1, pp. 57–70 (2018)

For citation

Artamonov, Yu.V., Shutov, S.A., Skripaleva, E.A., Shapovalov, R.O., Fedirko, A.V. and Shcherbachenko, S.V., 2018. Water Circulation in the Northern Black Sea in Summer 2016 (Based on the Data Obtained in the 87th Cruise of the R/V Professor Vodyanitsky). Physical Oceanography, 25(1), pp. 52-66. doi:10.22449/1573-160X-2018-1-52-66

DOI

10.22449/1573-160X-2018-1-52-66

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