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Reanalysis of seasonal and interannual variability of Black Sea fields for 1993–2012

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A retrospective analysis has been done for the hydrophysical fields of the Black Sea for 1993–2012 with the assimilation of undisturbed monthly average profiles of temperature and salinity that were obtained by using an original procedure of joint processing of satellite altimetry and rare hydrological observations. The accuracy of the reconstructed fields of temperature and salinity of the Black Sea is evaluated by comparison with the data of sounding from the hydrological stations and the Argo floats. A comparative analysis is performed for the integral characteristics of the fields of temperature, salinity, and kinetic energy with the same characteristics of the reanalysis for 1992–2012 that assimilated the average annual profiles of temperature and salinity, surface temperature and altimetry level of the sea after being adjusted with respect to climate seasonal variability. The proposed procedure of the reanalysis execution allows a more precise reconstruction of the interannual variability of temperature and salinity stratification in the main pycnocline. The correlation between the annual and seasonal variability of the eddy of the wind friction tangential stress and the average kinetic energy at the levels is revealed.

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  1. Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kapitanskaya 2, Sevastopol, 299011, Russia

    G. K. Korotaev, V. V. Knysh & P. N. Lishaev

  2. Institute of Computational Mathematics, ul. Gubkina 8, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Original Russian Text © G.K. Korotaev, A.S. Sarkisyan, V.V. Knysh, P.N. Lishaev, 2016, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2016, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 475–487.

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Korotaev, G.K., Sarkisyan, A.S., Knysh, V.V. et al. Reanalysis of seasonal and interannual variability of Black Sea fields for 1993–2012. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 52, 418–430 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433816040071

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