RELATION BETWEEN LARGE-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES AND VARIABILITY OF TRANSPARENCY AND SUSPENDED MATTER IN NORTHWESTERN BLACK SEA SURFACE WATER IN WINTER PERIOD

E. N. Voskresenskaya, A. S. Kukushkin, Z. P. Burlakova, and L. V. Eremeeva

The relation between the large-scale atmospheric processes and the variability of transparency, suspended matter, and hydrological characteristics of the surface water layer in the northwestern Black Sea is analyzed. The analysis is based on the data bank of the Marine Hydrophysical Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (MHI NAS) and simultaneous optical and biological observations in the sea in the winters of 1978—1988. It is shown that the variability of the North Atlantic and Southern Oscillation indices controls meteorological conditions and river runoff in the region of study; they, in turn, markedly affect the distribution of water transparency and suspended matter in the sea.