ИСТИНА

The temperature regime of the cold season determines the conditions and number of ice hummocks in the ice cover, and therefore influences the intensity of the ice impact on the shores and bottom. With all the other ice forming conditions being equal, current sea level position is an important factor, determining the intensity of ice gouging process. The fluctuations of the sea level can lead to significant depth changes and sea bottom relief rework and can accordingly change the conditions of ice hummocks' forming and the ice gouging of the bottom and shores. The difficulty of the problem is determined by the lack of studies of the ice cover interaction with the bottom grounds of the Northern Caspian, and by the complexity of the problems to solve and high variability of the sea level and ice cover extent of the Caspian Sea.