Black Sea thermohaline properties: Long-term trends and variations.

ABSTRACT: The current knowledge about spatial and temporal dynamics of the Black Sea's thermohaline structure is incomplete because of missing data and sparse distribution of existing measurements in space and time. This study presents 56 year continuous simulations of the Black Sea's hydrodynamics using the 3D General Estuarine Transport Model (GETM), without incorporating any relaxation toward climatological or observational data fields. This property of the model allows us to estimate independent temporal trends, in addition to resolving the spatial structure. The simulations suggest that the intermediate layer temperature is characterized by a weak positive trend (warming), whereas the surface temperature does not show a clear linear trend. Different salinity trends have been established at the

SUBMITTER: Miladinova S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5606501 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature