{"title":"Submesoscale features of coastal upwellings in the Black Sea: Observations and modeling","authors":"Arseny Kubryakov, Anna Aleskerova, Artem Mizyuk","doi":"10.1016/j.csr.2024.105291","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Coastal upwellings significantly affect the thermohaline structure, gas exchange and the fluxes of nutrients in the upper layers. They are often characterized by complex spatial structure, which is related to impact of different factors – changes of bathymetry, impact of background currents, baroclinic instability and others. In this study, we use high-resolution NEMO numerical model-ling and satellite data to study in details several physical causes of the observed submesoscale features of the Black Sea coastal upwellings: . 1) the influence of capes on the separation of coastal upwelling from the coast and its further transformation into submesoscale eddies; 2) the influence of mesoscale eddies on the structure of coastal upwellings; 3) the role of river plumes and haline fronts in the transport of upwellings. Comparison of model and satellite data shows that the numerical calculations reasonably well reproduce the onset time, intensity and areas of upwellings. Further, we show that the discussed processes can significantly affect the intensity, evolution and propagation of coastal upwellings in the Black sea.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50618,"journal":{"name":"Continental Shelf Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Continental Shelf Research","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278434324001213","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"OCEANOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Coastal upwellings significantly affect the thermohaline structure, gas exchange and the fluxes of nutrients in the upper layers. They are often characterized by complex spatial structure, which is related to impact of different factors – changes of bathymetry, impact of background currents, baroclinic instability and others. In this study, we use high-resolution NEMO numerical model-ling and satellite data to study in details several physical causes of the observed submesoscale features of the Black Sea coastal upwellings: . 1) the influence of capes on the separation of coastal upwelling from the coast and its further transformation into submesoscale eddies; 2) the influence of mesoscale eddies on the structure of coastal upwellings; 3) the role of river plumes and haline fronts in the transport of upwellings. Comparison of model and satellite data shows that the numerical calculations reasonably well reproduce the onset time, intensity and areas of upwellings. Further, we show that the discussed processes can significantly affect the intensity, evolution and propagation of coastal upwellings in the Black sea.
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Continental Shelf Research publishes articles dealing with the biological, chemical, geological and physical oceanography of the shallow marine environment, from coastal and estuarine waters out to the shelf break. The continental shelf is a critical environment within the land-ocean continuum, and many processes, functions and problems in the continental shelf are driven by terrestrial inputs transported through the rivers and estuaries to the coastal and continental shelf areas. Manuscripts that deal with these topics must make a clear link to the continental shelf. Examples of research areas include:
Physical sedimentology and geomorphology
Geochemistry of the coastal ocean (inorganic and organic)
Marine environment and anthropogenic effects
Interaction of physical dynamics with natural and manmade shoreline features
Benthic, phytoplankton and zooplankton ecology
Coastal water and sediment quality, and ecosystem health
Benthic-pelagic coupling (physical and biogeochemical)
Interactions between physical dynamics (waves, currents, mixing, etc.) and biogeochemical cycles
Estuarine, coastal and shelf sea modelling and process studies.