Influence of Initial Conditions in the Problem of the Vertical Haline Structure Formation in the Black Sea Caused by Water Exchange through the Bosphorus Strait and River Runoff

M. V. Senderov, A. I. Mizyuk

Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS, Sevastopol, Russia

Abstract

The circulation model NEMO OPA with low-resolution configuration is implemented for basins of the Black, Azov and Marmara seas. As initial conditions for the Black and Azov seas several salinity values distributed on a vertical and a horizontal have been chosen, temperature was also uniform. Simulations allow revealing the formation of upper and lower currents in the Bosphorus Strait caused by the salinity difference between the Black and Marmara Seas. In the model runs the upper current volume discharge is two times higher than the lower one.

Keywords

vertical haline structure, numerical modeling, the Black Sea, the Bosphorus strait

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