Black Sea Resources and Prospects for their Further Use

Abstract

The climate of the Black Sea, which creates favorable conditions for the development of various sectors of the national economy (resort and recreation, fishing, transport, etc.), has significant resource potential. However, global warming affects the marine climate and its hydrological regime.
Over the past 14 years (2000-2014), the processing and analysis of materials on the thermal regime of surface waters in the Adjarian coastal zone of the Black Sea have shown that the annual course and distribution of the temperature of surface waters in the sea by year are subject to patterns. As a result, the lowest temperatures were recorded in February-March (within +7⁰С), and the highest – in July-August (+28, +29⁰С). The deviation of the sea water surface temperature from the long-term regime was first observed in August 2010 and reached a peak of +33⁰C (database of the Georgian Hydrometeorological Institute), which was mainly due to the influence of global warming and was reflected in the thermal regime of the sea surface waters. Similar temperature trends were observed in 2011-2014.