title: Reply to Reviewer #1
abstract: We strongly appreciate the reviewers' suggestions and comments that served to improve the article.In response to them, first, we added results of numerical modelling that supported the results obtained from analysis of satellite imagery.Second, we clarified methods of detection of surface-advected outflows from the Sea of Azov to the Black Sea and bottom-advected inflows in the opposite direction based on agreement between Chl-a and TSM satellite imagery.Third, we modified the interpretation of 