Tidal Constants Products
Alongtrack Tidal Constants - Regional Products
X-TRACK produtcs are now available on aviso+ website
The CTOH computes and distributes tidal constants estimated from its along-track 1Hz sea level anomalies (SLA) products.
SLA time series have been computed with the X-TRACK processor for the whole TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 period applying the latest reprocessing CTOH standards. As long-term CTOH SLA time series are distributed
onto a reference grid along the satellites ground
track, tidal constants are estimated directly by harmonic analysis of each single time
series (i.e. every 6.2km).
CTOH tidal constants product contains along-track estimates of amplitude (variable 'amplitude''),
phase lag (variable 'phase_lag') for each tidal constituent (variable
'constituentname') that can be recovered locally with CTOH specific
harmonic analysis software. Spatial locations of tidal estimates along
the altimeter ground track are indicated in 'latitude' and 'longitude' variables. Record length of single time series is provided by the
'samples'' variable.
In addition, CTOH tidal constants product contains, for each tidal constituent, two along-track error estimates associated to the
tidal constants. One is directly computed from the inverse method
theory (variable 'mean_square_error') and the other one is taking into account the
ocean background signal at aliased tidal frequencies (variable
'bg_contamination_error').
Acknowledgements:
Please do not forget to mention the following sentence in all publications or communications referring to a work based on the CTOH/LEGOS altimetry dataset:
"Altimetry data used in this study were developed, validated, and distributed by the CTOH/LEGOS, France".
X-TRACK references
Examples of applications: global FES2012 tide model validation
Data release:
- CTOH_X-TRACK_Tidal_2015_01
- CTOH_X-TRACK_Tidal_2018_01
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