abstract: Purpose.The main objectives of the study consisted in analyzing the Marmara Sea energy and in identifying the basic reasons for formation of its circulation features in 2008.Methods and Results.The numerical experiment on modeling the Marmara Sea circulation and evaluating its energy characteristics on the example of 2008 was carried out based on the eddyresolving nonlinear hydrodynamic model of Marine Hydrophysical Institute, RAS.The horizontal resolution of the model was 1.22 × 0.83 km, 18 hor
journal: Physical Oceanography