title: Verification of the ERA-Interim Reanalysis Data in the Azov-Black Sea Basin
abstract: The paper purpose is to assess quality of meteorological information for the Azov-Black Sea basin derived from the ERA-Interim reanalysis (the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), and to examine possibility of using the obtained data for presetting atmospheric forcing in the numerical hydrodynamic model of the Black and Azov seas. ERA-Interim Methods. The analysis is based on comparison of the annual average fields with the measurement data on the atmospheric circulation paramete
journal: Physical Oceanography