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Variability of the distribution of the transparency and suspended matter: Concentration in the surface layer of the northwestern part of the Black Sea in the summer period

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Particular features of the distribution of the transparency and particulate matter content, their variability, and their interdependence in the surface water layer (0–5 m) over the northwestern shelf and in the adjacent abyssal part of the Black Sea in the summer were considered on the basis of long-term simultaneous optical, biological, and hydrological observations (1979–1993). In the shelf regions with different river discharges and in the waters of the open part of the sea, the distributions of the transparency, the total particulate matter, and its organic components (organic carbon, nitrogen, and chlorophyll a), as well as the relative content of particulate organic carbon in the total amount of the particulate matter and the content of chlorophyll a in the particulate organic carbon, were considered. The distributions of the transparency and particulate matter and their dependence on the water dynamics are in good agreement. It was demonstrated that extreme anthropogenic eutrophication influences the western and northern coastal shelf areas. The water transparency and particulate organic matter distributions in the central shelf area subjected to the influence of transformed river water and the water properties of the southern part of the shelf, which is influenced by the waters of the open sea, were determined according to the particular structure of the phytoplankton, its abundance, and the processes of its production and destruction.

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    A. S. Kukushkin, Z. P. Burlakova & L. V. Eremeeva

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Kukushkin, Z.P. Burlakova, L.V. Eremeeva, 2006, published in Okeanologiya, 2006, Vol. 46, No.6, pp. 834–845.

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Kukushkin, A.S., Burlakova, Z.P. & Eremeeva, L.V. Variability of the distribution of the transparency and suspended matter: Concentration in the surface layer of the northwestern part of the Black Sea in the summer period. Oceanology 46, 784–795 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437006060038

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