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Combined Hydrodynamical and Empirical Modeling of Ocean Tides

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The paper presents a detailed analysis of the author’s hydrodynamical interpolation technique, which was developed and tested to compute a realistic eleven-mode ocean tide model in the real world oceans. Since ocean tidal currents are distinguished from other general ocean and atmospheric circulations by a massive number of available empirical tide data, advantage was taken of this unique opportunity to search systematically for realistic eddy-dissipation and bottom-friction laws. Those laws and their scale factors were determined in trial-and-error computer experiments to assure their proper representation of the real 1°-macroscopic nature of turbulent tidal currents. The quality of the representation was measured by the smoothness with which the hydrodynamically computed tidal field integrated thousands of empirical tide data uniformly over the world-wide oceans.

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  1. Naval Surface Weapons Center/K104, Dahlgren, Virginia, 22448, USA

    Ernst W. Schwiderski

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  1. University of Hanover, Germany

    G. Seeber

  2. Johns Hopkins University, USA

    J. R. Apel

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Schwiderski, E.W. (1984). Combined Hydrodynamical and Empirical Modeling of Ocean Tides. In: Seeber, G., Apel, J.R. (eds) Geodetic Features of the Ocean Surface and their Implications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1673-4_17

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