© Author(s) 2011. CC Attribution 3.0 License. Ocean Science Operational forecast of hydrophysical fields in the Georgian Black

Abstract. One of the parts of the Black Sea Nowcast-ing/Forecasting System is the regional forecasting system for the easternmost part of the Black Sea (including the Georgian water area), which has been developed within the context of the EU International projects ARENA and ECOOP. A core of the regional system is a high-resolution baroclinic regional model of the Black Sea dynamics developed at M. Nodia In-stitute of Geophysics (RM-IG). This model is nested in the basin-scale model of Marine Hydrophysical Institute (MHI, Sevastopol/Ukraine). The regional area is limited to the Caucasian and Turkish coastal lines and the western liquid boundary coinciding with the meridian 39.36 ◦ E. Since June 2010 we have regularly been computing 3 days ’ forecasts of current, temperature and salinity for the easternmost part of the Black Sea with 1 km spacing. In this study the results o