AN ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS IN THE ROMANIAN NEARSHORE OF THE BLACK SEA
Abstract
Due to the global climate change the strong storms that occur in the Romanian coastal environment are more powerful and, although, somehow shorter in time, they have a higher frequency of recurrence. The changes in the vulnerability characteristics of natural habitats and touristic coastal areas were analyzed together with the impact of the coastal protection infrastructures. Most of the above mentioned changes are caused by extreme anthropogenic / natural factors that occur at different intervals in time. The main modelling factors of the coastline are the waves and they depend on the meteorological factors and on the local topography of the Black Sea bottom. The present work is based on the analysis of the data acquired from multiple data collection campaigns that span for a fifty year period, from 1962 to 2012. After the data processing, the results show that the erosion process is greater than the accretion phenomenon. Another conclusion is that the climate change induces a more active dynamics in the coastal environment and it seems that the western side of the Black Sea is the most affected part of the sea basin. The work is still ongoing and further analyses and correlations with other data sources are currently made.
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