Sensitivity to Global Change in Temperate Euro-Asian Seas (The Mediterranean, Black Sea and Caspian Sea): A Review

Abstract

Common features of the three rdatively isolated Em'o-Asian Seas are reviewed to evaluate their sensitivity to climatic or anthropogenic change. The projection of the effects of Global Change occur through physical linkages, mediated by global, basin-scale and meso-scale processes, which need to be better unterstood for better forecasts. Prominent inter-annual / interdecadal signals and large scale controls are evident, and in some cases the changes are of a magnitude detected for the first time in the history of modern observations.