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A numerical experiment was conducted to reconstruct the fields of the currents, the level, temperature and salinity of the Black Sea for the summer season of 2016 on the
basis of the hydrodynamic model that included nonlinear equations of motion, advection equations of heat and salt. We used a high spatial resolution (horizontal grid ?1.6 ?1.6 km
and 27 vertical layers) and real atmospheric forcing. The assimilation procedure of observational data was based on a modified Kalman filter taking into account the heterogeneity
and non-isotropy of estimates of the temperature and salinity fields. Areas of generation of meso-and submesoscale features of hydrophysical fields were determined in the northern
part of the Black Sea (eddies of different signs of rotation with a radius of about 30 km in the western part of the region, a cyclonic eddy with a radius of about 40 km in the eastern
deep-water part of the region, anticyclonic eddy with a radius of about 25 km near the city of Yalta, intense jets along the Crimean coast and eddies of small scales of a different sign
of rotation along the coast of Crimea and on the north-western shelf) and possible reasons of their formation were discussed. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.