Satellite and hydrography observations of the riverine water dynamics in the Black Sea north-western shelf
- Marine Hydrophysical Institute (MHI), Sevastopol (Ukraine)
- Survey Dept. of Rijkswaterstaat, Delft (Netherlands)
Satellite thermal and visible imagery allow to describe the spatial distribution and time evolution of the turbid desalinated water plumes expanding from the principal rivers (Danube, Dnieper and Dniester). The main amount of river inflows is transported to the south along the western coast of the Black Sea. But in spring and summer, they often turn eastward and flow within thin surface layer into the outer shelf region. Their expansion is under the wind control (enforcing of western, Southwestern winds). Coastal upwelling of the underlying cold transparent water is produced under these conditions which separates the river plum from the shore. Sometimes, the intensive small-scale eddies generation is observed at the outer front of plum. The part of turbid desalinated water is trapped by quasi-stationary anticyclonic eddies at the shelf edge and transferred into the central (deep-water) region of the sea.
- OSTI ID:
- 508185
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960384-; TRN: 97:002803-0015
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Nomadic computing and communications conference: creating a new era in mobile communications, San Jose, CA (United States), 13-15 Mar 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the fourth international conference on remote sensing for marine and coastal environments. Technology and applications: Volume II; PB: 671 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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