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Tidal loading in south western Europe: A test area
Author(s) -
Francis O.,
Melchior P.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/96gl02167
Subject(s) - ocean tide , geology , oceanography , geodesy , climatology
The gravity attraction and loading effects computed on the basis of recent ocean tide models still present non negligible discrepancies for the principal tidal lunar wave M 2 . The installation of new tidal gravity stations in these regions would be useful to assess the accuracy of these new ocean tide models, in particular for the Atlantic ocean. This investigation clearly proves that there is a real scientific interest to set up a new Earth tides gravity profile along the coasts from Belgium to Portugal.