Climate Change in Eastern Europe

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MOLDOVA

Zaporizhzhia

Mykolaiv

Ochakiv

Donetsk

Odesa

Belgorod- Dnistrovski

Kherson

Illichivsk

U K R A I N E

Melitopol

Mariupol

Taganrog

Skadovsk

Berdiansk

Armiansk

ROMANIA

Ejsk

Chornomorske

S e a o f A z o v

B l a c k S e a

Primorsko-Ahtarsk

Yevpatoriia

C r i m e a

Simferopol

Kerch

Sevastopol

Sudak

Feodosia

R U S S I A

Alushta

Yalta

Black and Azov seas coastline vulnerability Potential inundated areas if water level rises:

Sea level increase in 1992-2007 (mm)

5 5.5 6 6.5

by 2 metres Source: European Environment Agency (→ http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/sea-level-changes-in-europe-october-1992-may-2007) by 5 metres

Industrial centres

Black sea level changes according to instrumental observations in Odesa

Variability of average Black sea surface temperature

° С

cm

18

500

17

480

16

15

460

14

Produced by ZOI Environment Network, 2011.

440

13

1980

1985

1990

1995

2000

2005

average surface temperature of entire Black Sea average surface temperature near the Black Sea's Bosfor region horizontal axis denotes El Nino periods

Produced by ZOI Environmental Network, 2011.

420

1930 1950 1970 1990 1997

1870

1890

1910

Source: Variability of surface temperature and the level of the Black, Marmara and the Aegean Sea from satellite measurements 2007.

Source: Implications of Black Sea level rise in Ukraine, 2000.

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