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The geography of non-stationary internal tides from along-track wavenumber spectra
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Event: 2016 Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting
Session: Tides, internal tides and high-frequency processes
Presentation type: Type Oral
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Abstract:
A global analysis of along-track wavenumber spectra of SSH is used to map
non-stationary internal tides. Variance associated with the non-stationary
tide is inferred as a residual between total SSH variance and coherent tide variance
in the wavenumber bands surrounding the internal tide wavenumbers. Several regions
are identified where the non-stationary tide is prominent, such as the western tropical
Atlantic and Amazon River plume region, the Bay of Bengal, and the western equatorial
Pacific. Quantification of the non-stationary tide requires separation of the tide-band
variability from broadband, mesoscale, variability, which shall be discussed.
non-stationary internal tides. Variance associated with the non-stationary
tide is inferred as a residual between total SSH variance and coherent tide variance
in the wavenumber bands surrounding the internal tide wavenumbers. Several regions
are identified where the non-stationary tide is prominent, such as the western tropical
Atlantic and Amazon River plume region, the Bay of Bengal, and the western equatorial
Pacific. Quantification of the non-stationary tide requires separation of the tide-band
variability from broadband, mesoscale, variability, which shall be discussed.