Temporal and Spatial Variability of Black Sea Hydrodynamics and Chlorophyll: A Concentration with Connection to Wind Forcing
Journal: Calhoun: The Naval Postgraduate School Institutional Archive (Naval Postgraduate School)
Year: 2013

Spatial and temporal variability of the Black Sea surface circulation with the link to chlorophyll-a concentration and surface winds is investigated using Satellite data from Archiving, Validation, and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data (AVISO), Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), and Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) with the Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs). Six spatial patterns with temporal variability were identified for the surface currents Pattern-1 (Sevastopol Cyclonic a