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Worldwide Ocean Tide Modelling

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Advanced Physical Oceanographic Numerical Modelling

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Area-time averaged Navier-Stokes equations of turbulent fluid motions are simplified by single-layer approximations to model tidal elevations and currents in the real world oceans. The resulting ocean tidal equations (OTE’s) are solved by a finite difference scheme, which allows for a realistic integration of empirical tide data into the computed tidal field. The unique hydrodynamical-interpolation technique takes advantage of the massive empirical values, to search by systematic variation for the a-priori unknown turbulent momentum exchange or mixing and friction parameters occurring in the OTE’s. The characteristic features of the new interpolation scheme are pointwise demonstrated for the constructed M2-tide model by tidal charts displaying side-by-side empirical and computed data for direct evaluation. The global quality of the model is shown by the computed realistically balanced budgets of angular momentum and energy. The latter results reveal the true nature of eddy dissipation as a momentum exchange: while the former is completely negligible, the latter is of major significance.

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Schwiderski, E.W. (1986). Worldwide Ocean Tide Modelling. In: O’Brien, J.J. (eds) Advanced Physical Oceanographic Numerical Modelling. NATO ASI Series, vol 186. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0627-8_20

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