Rotational evaluation of a long-period spherical harmonic ocean tide model |
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| Authors: | S R Dickman R S Gross |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1JU, UK |
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| Abstract: | By exchanging angular momentum with the solid earth, tidal variations in ocean currents and sea level cause the rotation of
the solid earth to change. Observations of earth rotation variations can therefore be used to evaluate ocean tide models.
The rotational predictions of a spherical harmonic ocean tide model that is not constrained by any type of data are compared
here to the predictions of numerical ocean tide models and to earth rotation observations from which atmospheric and non-tidal
oceanic effects have been removed. The spherical harmonic ocean tide model is shown to account for the observed variations
at the fortnightly tidal period in polar motion excitation but not in length-of-day. Overall, its long-period polar motion
excitation predictions fit the observed tidal signals better than do the predictions of the numerical ocean tide models studied
here. It may be possible to improve its agreement with length-of-day observations by tuning certain model parameters, as was
done to obtain the close agreement reported here between the modeled and observed polar motion excitation; alternatively,
the discrepancy in length-of-day may point to the need to revise current models of mantle anelasticity and/or models of the
oceanic response to atmospheric pressure variations. |
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