The ANDERSEN2006 global empirical ocean tide model.

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The ANDERSEN-2006 global empirical ocean tide
model.

• O. Andersen, Danish National Space Center,
  Copenhagen, Denmark,

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The ANDERSEN-06 Ocean tide model

• New Empirical Global Ocean Tide model
• Based on FES94.1 (corrected) hydrodynamic model
  0.25 resolution
• Data
• Joint T/P JASON-1 GFO ERS/ENVISAT data
• T/P JASON-1 X-over data within /- 65 N (465
  repeats)
• T/P Along track data (Depth lt 1 km) (371 repeats)
• T/P-2 Interlaced mission x-over data (Max 90
  repeats)
• Data and software
• Grids available in 0.25 degree and 0.5 degree
  resolution.
• Software compatible with previous AG software
  available.

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Andersen M2 Ocean tide
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Difference AG06 - FES99 (M2)
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ANDERSEN-2006 - Evaluation

• 102 Global Tide Gauges.
• 65 North East Atlantic controlled pelagic gauges
  (POL).
• 199 Coastal pelagic gauges

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Comparison with 102 65 199 Tide Gauges
Subset of the Tide gauges on the NEAtlantic was
used for the underlaying FES hydrodynamic
modelling.