in this area are the waste water of the village of Myskhako, as well as contaminated
surface waters that flowed from Tsemess Bay and the port of Novorossiysk.
In Fig. 5 a small volume of river water of the river Mzymta with high content of
suspended matter propagates perpendicular to the shore at a distance of 1 km from
the mouth and terminates with a cyclonic eddy in a south-easterly direction, against
the usual direction (northwestward) of the coastal water flow. It should be noted that
the river plume can form a dipole or a cyclone/anticyclone at its terminal depending
on the direction of wind and/or coastal current. This process has been observed in
the coastal zone of Adler village. Formation of such eddies is conditioned directly
by the river flow transferring the local momentum to the surface layer of the sea.
Two anticyclonic eddies with diameters of 2 and 1 km are seen in Fig. 6 off the
coast in the region of the village of Shakhe in the field of suspended matter. The
Fig. 5 Cyclonic eddy (C) offshore of the Mzymta River mouth (the northeastern Black Sea)
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