A Global Ocean Tide Model from Topex/Poseidon Altimetry
A Global Ocean Tide Model from Topex/Poseidon Altimetry

Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781720359593

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Goddard Ocean Tide model GOT99.2 is a new solution for the amplitudes and phases of the global oceanic tides, based on over six years of sea-surface height measurements by the TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite altimeter. Comparison with deep-ocean tide-gauge measurements show that this new tidal solution is an improvement over previous global models, with accuracies for the main semidiurnal lunar constituent M2 now below 1.5 cm (deep water only). The new solution benefits from use of prior hydrodynamic models, several in shallow and inland seas as well as the global finite-element model FES94.1. This report describes some of the data processing details involved in handling the altimetry, and it provides a comprehensive set of global cotidal charts of the resulting solutions. Various derived tidal charts are also provided, including tidal loading deformation charts, tidal gravimetric charts, and tidal current velocity (or transport) charts. Finally, low-degree spherical harmonic coefficients are computed by numerical quadrature and are tabulated for the major short-period tides; these are useful for a variety of geodetic and geophysical purposes, especially in combination with similar estimates from satellite laser ranging.Ray, Richard D.Goddard Space Flight CenterOCEANOGRAPHY; TIDES; OCEAN MODELS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TOPEX; POSEIDON SATELLITE; OCEAN SURFACE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; DATA PROCESSING; CHARTS; HEIGHT; ALTIMETERS; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS

CAPTAIN COOKS VOYAGES
CAPTAIN COOKS VOYAGES

Author: James 1728-1779 Cook

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-25

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9781360864457

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Transits of Venus (IAU C196)
Transits of Venus (IAU C196)

Author: International Astronomical Union. Colloquium

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-06-30

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 9780521849074

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IAU C196 coincided with the 8 June 2004 transit of Venus, producing the exciting, eclectic mix that can be found in these proceedings: the amazing history of the English North-country astronomers of the seventeenth century; the AU at a precision of 1.4 m; the explanation for the infamous black drop effect; a possible Mayan observation of a transit of Venus in the thirteenth century; the vexed question of leap seconds and time scales; history, distances, parallaxes, the solar system at exquisite precision and future space missions that will revolutionise astronomy.