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Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-15-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-15-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 1
Research article
 | 
07 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 07 Jan 2020

Water exchange between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea through the Kerch Strait

Ivan Zavialov, Alexander Osadchiev, Roman Sedakov, Bernard Barnier, Jean-Marc Molines, and Vladimir Belokopytov

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-15-2020-supplement

Data sets

MERIS full resolution data repository European Space Agency https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/-/meris-full-resolution-full-swath-4215

National Aeronautics and Space Administration repository of LANCE-MODIS satellite data, NASA https://lance3.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

Weather forecast website in Russia Met Office https://rp5.ru

NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.surface.html

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Short summary
This study is focused on water exchange between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. The Sea of Azov is a small freshened sea that receives a large freshwater discharge and, therefore, can be regarded as a large river estuary connected by narrow Kerch Strait with the Black Sea. In this work we show that water transport through the Kerch Strait is governed by wind forcing and does not depend on the river discharge rate to the Sea of Azov on an intra-annual timescale.
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