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CHEN Haibo,LV Xianqing,WANG Bin. 2012. Plane wave fitting of the internal tidal sea-surface height signatures extracted from the TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data along satellite tracks. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, (4):31-45
Plane wave fitting of the internal tidal sea-surface height signatures extracted from the TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data along satellite tracks
Plane wave fitting of the internal tidal sea-surface height signatures extracted from the TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data along satellite tracks
Received:December 31, 2011  Revised:March 29, 2012
DOI:10.1007/s13131-012-0218-8
Key words:plane wave fitting  internal tides  TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data
中文关键词:  plane wave fitting  internal tides  TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data
基金项目:The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. 41076006; the State Ministry of Science and Technology of China under contract No. 2008AA09A402; the Ministry of Education's "111" Project of China under contract No. B07036.
Author NameAffiliationE-mail
CHEN Haibo Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China  
LV Xianqing Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China xqinglv@ouc.edu.cn 
WANG Bin Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China  
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Abstract:
      The sea-surface height (SSH) signatures of internal tides extracted from the TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) altimeter data along satellite tracks are fitted with superposition of several plane waves which have different wavenumber vectors. The key problem of plane wave fitting with iterative method is how to determine the initial value of wavenumber of each plane wave. The previous solving method is to analyze the internal tidal SSH signatures along each track with wavenumber spectrum. But it is found that the problem cannot be solved completely with the wavenumber spectrum analysis method only. The method based on the combination of wavenumber spectrum analysis method and the exhaustive method is proposed to determine the initial values of wavenumbers for iteration. Numerical results indicate that the proposed method is not only reasonable and feasible but also better than the previous method. The proposed method is an improvement of the previous one, which is beneficial to improving the precision of plane wave fitting of the T/P internal tidal SSH signatures and deepening the understanding of the internal tides in ocean.
中文摘要:
      The sea-surface height (SSH) signatures of internal tides extracted from the TOPEX/Poseidon (T/P) altimeter data along satellite tracks are fitted with superposition of several plane waves which have different wavenumber vectors. The key problem of plane wave fitting with iterative method is how to determine the initial value of wavenumber of each plane wave. The previous solving method is to analyze the internal tidal SSH signatures along each track with wavenumber spectrum. But it is found that the problem cannot be solved completely with the wavenumber spectrum analysis method only. The method based on the combination of wavenumber spectrum analysis method and the exhaustive method is proposed to determine the initial values of wavenumbers for iteration. Numerical results indicate that the proposed method is not only reasonable and feasible but also better than the previous method. The proposed method is an improvement of the previous one, which is beneficial to improving the precision of plane wave fitting of the T/P internal tidal SSH signatures and deepening the understanding of the internal tides in ocean.
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