Atmospheric Contributions to Global Ocean Tides for Satellite Gravimetry

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Authors

  • Kyriakos Balidakis
  • Roman Sulzbach
  • Linus Shihora
  • Christoph Dahle
  • Robert Dill
  • Henryk Dobslaw

External Research Organisations

  • Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)
  • Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin)
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Original languageEnglish
Article numbere2022MS003193
JournalJournal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Volume14
Issue number11
Early online date17 Oct 2022
Publication statusPublished - 10 Nov 2022
Externally publishedYes

Abstract

To mitigate temporal aliasing effects in monthly mean global gravity fields from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite tandem missions, both tidal and non-tidal background models describing high-frequency mass variability in atmosphere and oceans are needed. To quantify tides in the atmosphere, we exploit the higher spatial (31 km) and temporal (1 hr) resolution provided by the latest atmospheric ECMWF reanalysis, ERA5. The oceanic response to atmospheric tides is subsequently modeled with the general ocean circulation model MPIOM (in a recently revised TP10L40 configuration that includes the feedback of self-attraction and loading to the momentum equations and has an improved bathymetry around Antarctica) as well as the shallow water model TiME (employing a much higher spatial resolution and more elaborate tidal dissipation than MPIOM). Both ocean models consider jointly the effects of atmospheric pressure variations and surface wind stress. We present the characteristics of 16 waves beating at frequencies in the 1–6 cpd band and find that TiME typically outperforms the corresponding results from MPIOM and also FES2014b as measured from comparisons with tide gauge data. Moreover, we note improvements in GRACE-FO laser ranging interferometer range-acceleration pre-fit residuals when employing the ocean tide solutions from TiME, in particular, for the S 1 spectral line with most notable improvements around Australia, India, and the northern part of South America.

Keywords

    ERA5, GRACE-FO, atmospheric forcing, atmospheric tides, de-aliasing, ocean tides

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Atmospheric Contributions to Global Ocean Tides for Satellite Gravimetry. / Balidakis, Kyriakos; Sulzbach, Roman; Shihora, Linus et al.
In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Vol. 14, No. 11, e2022MS003193, 10.11.2022.

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Balidakis, K, Sulzbach, R, Shihora, L, Dahle, C, Dill, R & Dobslaw, H 2022, 'Atmospheric Contributions to Global Ocean Tides for Satellite Gravimetry', Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, vol. 14, no. 11, e2022MS003193. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003193
Balidakis, K., Sulzbach, R., Shihora, L., Dahle, C., Dill, R., & Dobslaw, H. (2022). Atmospheric Contributions to Global Ocean Tides for Satellite Gravimetry. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14(11), Article e2022MS003193. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003193
Balidakis K, Sulzbach R, Shihora L, Dahle C, Dill R, Dobslaw H. Atmospheric Contributions to Global Ocean Tides for Satellite Gravimetry. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2022 Nov 10;14(11):e2022MS003193. Epub 2022 Oct 17. doi: 10.1029/2022MS003193
Balidakis, Kyriakos ; Sulzbach, Roman ; Shihora, Linus et al. / Atmospheric Contributions to Global Ocean Tides for Satellite Gravimetry. In: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 2022 ; Vol. 14, No. 11.
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