Plane wave fitting of the internal tidal sea-surface height signatures extracted from the TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data along satellite tracks  

作　　者：CHEN Haibo LV Xianqing WANG Bin 

机构地区：[1]Laboratory of Physical Oceanography,Ocean University of China,Qingdao 266100,China

出　　处：《Acta Oceanologica Sinica》2012年第4期31-45,共15页海洋学报（英文版）

基　　金：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

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.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.

关 键 词：plane wave fitting internal tides TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data 

分 类 号：TP302.7[自动化与计算机技术—计算机系统结构] S972.9[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]