A Large Spectrum of Free Oscillations of the World Ocean Including the Full Ocean Loading and Self-attraction Effects

by Malte Mïller

Overview

The ocean tides are the most prominent forced oscillations in the global ocean. Recent research showed that tides play an important role for the earth's climate system and they are of considerable interest for the post-processing of satellite data. To understand these oscillations it is substantial to determine and analyse the free oscillations, which describe the oscillation behaviour of the global ocean. A highly efficient ocean model is developed to compute these free oscillations with explicit consideration of dissipative terms and the full ocean loading and self-attraction (LSA). The obtained spectrum of free oscillations enables e.g. an detailed analyses of the LSA effect on tides, the synthesis of tides by free oscillations and to show the existence of six long period planetary vorticity modes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540855750
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/16/2008
Series:	Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs , #14
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.30(d)

Table of Contents

Theory and Model.- The Free Oscillations.- Synthesis of Forced Oscillations.- Synthesis of Forced Oscillations.