Environmental data and cumulative impacts for the Black Sea (files)

In this repository you can find data to replicate the comparison of cumulative impact approaches, using the Black Sea as a case study, as well as all the outputs. In the manuscript “Comparing methodological choices for environmental cumulative impacts analysis: The Black Sea as a case study” authored by Elena Lloret-Lloret, Maria Grazia Pennino, Francisco Ramirez, Lucia Espasandín Soneira, Sorin Constantin, Camila Artana, Florin Tatui, Natasa Vaidianu and Priscila F. M. Lopes, we explore and compare two methodological approaches for highly resolved spatially explicit environmental cumulative impact analysis. We combined two temporal resolutions (annual vs monthly) and two types of metrics (absolute means vs percent-based of anomalies) resulting in what we would refer to as two approaches: annual mean absolute values vs. percentages of monthly anomalies. Additionally, we employed three different considerations for the vertical component of the environmental input data: surface data, vertically integrated weighted mean, and vertically integrated weighted sum) and together, these factors produce six different scenarios for cumulative impact analysis.