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The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds094.1) S. Saha, S. Moorthi, H. Pan, X. Wu, J. Wang, S. Nadiga, P. Tripp, R. Kistler, J. Woollen, D. Behringer, H. Liu, D. Stokes, R. Grumbine, G. Gayno, J. Wang, Y. Hou, H. Chuang, H. Juang, J. Sela, M. Iredell, R. Treadon, D. Kleist, P. Delst, D. Keyser, J. Derber, M. Ek, J. Meng, H. Wei, R. Yang, S. Lord, H. Doll, A. Kumar, W. Wang, C. Long, M. Chellian, Y. Xue, B. Huang, J. Schemm, W. Eisuzaki, R. Lin, P. Xie, Y. Han, L. Cucurull, R. Reynolds, G. Rutledge, and M. Goldberg https://doi.org/10.1175/2010BAMS3001.1

A Reanalysis of Ocean Climate Using Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) (http://dsrs.atmos.umd.edu) J. A. Carton and B. Giese https://doi.org/10.1175/2007MWR1978.1

Bathymetric compilations of the seas around Israel I: The Caspian and Black Seas J. K. Hall http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/version_20100927/

Daily High-Resolution-Blended Analyses for Sea Surface Temperature R. W. Reynolds, T. M. Smith, C. Liu, D. B. Chelton, K. S. Casey and M. G. Schlax https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JCLI1824.1

EN4: quality controlled ocean temperature and salinity profiles and monthly objective analyses with uncertainty estimates (http://hadobs.metoffice.com/en4/download-en4-0-2.html) S. A. Good, M. J. Martin, and N. A. Rayner https://doi.org/10.1002/2013JC009067

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