Wind Stress Curl over the Black Sea under Different Wind Regimes
Journal: Physical Oceanography
Year: 2018

Dependence of the magnitude and spatial distribution of wind stress curl in the Black Sea on the direction of the airflow prevailing over the sea surface are analyzed based on the data set of wind at 10 m height ERA-Interim reanalysis of European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts for the period 1979-2015 with a spatial resolution of 0.75 0.75 and a temporal resolution of 6 h. It is revealed that the average sea wind stress curl is cyclonic at the time of the north-western, northern and n