Black Baltic
Comparisons between two highly
impacted semi-enclosed Seas
S. Besiktepe, Icel, Turkey
A. Cociasu, NIMR, Romania
C. Humborg, Stockholm University, Sweden
L. Rahm, Linköping University, Sweden
F. Wulff, Stockholm University, Sweden
I. Yurkova, Ukraina
Procedure Abstract
• Description of the area
• Upscaling from subbasin data
• Comparison between climatological,
hydrologic, hydrographic and human
dimension data
• Experiment with calculating external
variables derived from the data base
uploading and clustering own data
Objectives
• Comparing the LOICZVIEW data
base with our common knowledge
Recommendations
• The database itself and the possibility to extract information
on cell level turned out to be very useful.
• The clustering technique seems very robust and the results
obtained usually agreed with our knowledge.
• The multiple accounting of drainage basin data is a serious
obstacle in using it to form basin-wide summaries
• Since LOICZ deals with land-ocean fluxes of water and matter,
the “runoff” variables should be much better explained.
• The possibility to include geomorphological thresholds