Published In

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2017

Subjects

Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Tidal currents -- Mapping, Oceanography, Surface waves (Water), Ocean models, Data assimilation

Abstract

t Temporal variability of the internal tide has been inferred from the 23 year long combined records of the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, and Jason-2 satellite altimeters by combining harmonic analysis with an analysis of along-track wavenumber spectra of sea-surface height (SSH). Conventional harmonic analysis is first applied to estimate and remove the stationary components of the tide at each point along the reference ground tracks. The wavenumber spectrum of the residual SSH is then computed, and the variance in a neighborhood around the wavenumber of the mode-1 baroclinic M2 tide is interpreted as the sum of noise, broadband nontidal processes, and the nonstationary tide. At many sites a bump in the spectrum associated with the internal tide is noted, and an empirical model for the noise and nontidal processes is used to estimate the nonstationary semidiurnal tidal variance. The results indicate a spatially inhomogeneous pattern of tidal variability. Nonstationary tides are larger than stationary tides throughout much of the equatorial Pacific and Indian Oceans

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This is the publisher's final pdf. Originally published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/jgr/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-9291/) and is copyrighted by American Geophysical Union (http://www.agu.org/).

DOI

10.1002/2016JC012487

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/21643

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