Propagation of Waters from the Kerch Strait in the Black Sea
Journal: Physical Oceanography
Year: 2018

Turbid and brackish Azov waters penetrating through the Kerch Strait significantly modify the biooptical and thermohaline features in North-Western part of the Black Sea. The Kerch Strait itself is another additional powerful source of suspended matter. Analysis of the high-resolution Landsat imagery and MODIS satellite data on the total suspended matter (TSM) concentration and sea surface temperature is carried out in the present work to study the Kerch waters propagation in the Black Sea. It i