Mesoscale Eddy Chain Structures in the Black Sea and Their Interaction with River Plumes: Numerical Modeling and Satellite Observations
Journal: Remote Sensing
Year: 2023

The northeastern part of the cyclonic Rim Current, which encircles the entire basin of the Black Sea, is named as the Northeast Caucasian Current. It periodically approaches the coast, triggering the formation of topographic generated eddies, including long-living isolated anticyclonic eddies and short-living multiple anticyclonic eddies, which group and merge into eddy chain structures. Both types of eddies affect coastal dynamics and interact with multiple river plumes formed in the study area