KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, cilt.26, sa.9, ss.4052-4061, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
This
study aims to determine the main tidal parameters and the regional tidal model
in the south-west coasts of Turkey using
the least-squares harmonic estimation method. For
this purpose, the sea level data were
analyzed and compared to the tides that affect sea level based on the tidal
model using the tide gauge station and satellite altimetry data. High-Frequency
tide gauge data were obtained from
the TUDES (Turkish National Sea Level
Monitoring System) data archive and
multi-mission satellite altimetry data were
achieved from the AVISO data archive.
The tidal components of ten tide gauge stations distributed in the south-west
coast of Turkey were computed between the period 1998 – 2018. The results were compared with DTU10 and FES2014b
global tide models and regional X-TRACK tidal constants (for Mediterranean). It
was found that the differences of the global and regional model solutions were less than 1.3 cm for the main tide constituents
(semidiurnal: M2, S2 and diurnal:
K1, O1). Moreover, a regional tidal model for Turkey’s south-west coast was determined
from tide gauge stations and satellite altimetry. The results indicated
that the difference between the two solutions was about 0.8 cm.