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On the Winter Wave Climate of the Western Black Sea: The Changes During the Last 115 Years

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We present a study of the winter wave climate of the Western Black Sea with a focus on the annual maximums and the mean seasonal wave heights. We did a numerical simulation of the wave parameters in the Black Sea by the wave model SWAN for a period of 110 years. The input wind fields are from the atmospheric reanalysis ERA-CLIM. We also performed a hindcast for the period 1980–2015 using winds from the CFSR reanalysis. Extended winter (December–March) was studied. We also studied the characteristics of the pressure gradients in a larger region attempting to quantify this way the interaction of Mediterranean lows with blocking highs. No significant long term changes were found for any of the characteristics of the mean and extreme wave climate.

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Deep gratitude to the organizations and institutes (ECMWF, NOAA-Climate Prediction Center, NCEP-NCAR, Unidata, MPI-M and all others), which provides free of charge software and data. Without their innovative data services and tools this study would be not possible.

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  1. National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Tsarigradsko Shose blvd. 66, 1784, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Vasko Galabov & Hristo Chervenkov

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Galabov, V., Chervenkov, H. (2018). On the Winter Wave Climate of the Western Black Sea: The Changes During the Last 115 Years. In: Lirkov, I., Margenov, S. (eds) Large-Scale Scientific Computing. LSSC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10665. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73441-5_51

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