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NEW OBSERVATIONS ON SUPERFICIAL CIRCULATION IN
THE WESTERN PART OF THE BLACK SEA 


G. Serpoianu, F. Smocov and V. Malciu

Romanian Marine Research Institute Constanta

Abstract
The paper presents the results of an experiment with floats (drifting
bottles) carried out on August 2, 1988, in the central area of the
Romanian littoral of the Black Sea, about 30 miles seaward. A number
of 870 floats have been launched and 225 of them were recovered along
the entire western part of the Black Sea from Odessa to Bosporus and 
in the southern part from Bosporus to Sinop. In order to explain the
floats routes, daily resultants of the wind direction and speed have
been calculated, for the month of August, at Constantza. We emphasize
that 67% of the total floats were recovered in this month. This
experiment follows another one, more ample (5940 floats launched in 3
stages, June, July and August 1976, whose results have been published
by SERPOIANU and NAE 1977).