Bao Jingyang

Influence of Tide Models on the Use of Altimetry Data to Research Sea Level Anomaly

A tide model (named DN1.0), which contains 12 principal constituents over China seas and the Northwest Pacific is estimated by along-track harmonic analysis with TOPEX/Poseidon altimetry data taken from 1993 to 2002. CSR3.0, FES95.2 and DN1.0 are used respectively to detide the data for the time series of sea level anomaly (SLA) in the Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea and Northwest Pacific. The SLA curves and the power spectral density show that the major components that exist in SLA in China seas arise from the error of the tide models.

A preliminary study on the establishment of ocean tide models over the South China Sea from T/P altimetry

On the basis of the characteristic of the perfect spatial distribution of the T/P altimeter data, a spatial harmonic tidal analysis is performed, which transfers tidal harmonic constantsH andg of each constituent into a pair of parameters: the cosine part U and sine partV. And each part is expanded into a polynomial. The polynomial coefficients are estimated with altimeter data upon the least squares criteria. Thus the models of principal tidal waves in the South China Sea are established. 72 cycles of T/P data from cycle 11 through 82 are included in the calculation. The models are evaluated with different approaches and data set. The conclusions are that the tide modes can provide partial tide amplitudes with 3 cm accuracy, and that phase lags deviation of those tides with amplitude large than 10 cm are within ±10°.