TPXO7.1->TPXO7.2
Goal: improve TPXO7.1 in Antarctic & shallow water by assimilating GRACE & shallow water data.

 
Figure 1. Bathymetry & representer sites.

 
(a)whole domain: new representers are shown with red color (red frames for GRACE representers)
(b) zoomed around North Australia

 
 
M2, assimilated: 
-TP each 4th along track deep (H>500m); 
-TPT2 all shallow (H<500m); 
-ERS all shallow (H<500m); 
-GRACE ; 
-Arctic TG, Antarctic TG+18 TG 
S2, O1, assimilated:
-TP each 4th along track deep (H>500m); 
-TPT2 all shallow (H<500m); 
-GRACE; 
-Arctic TG+AntTG+18 TG 
K1, assimilated:
-TP each 4th deep (H>500m); 
-TPT2 all shallow (H<500m); 
-ERS shallow (H<500); 
-Arctic TG + Antarctic TG + 18 TG 
 
N2K2, P1, M4 assimilated: 
-TP each 4th deep (H>500m); 
-TPT2 all shallow (H<500m); 
-Arctic TG + Antarctic TG 
MS4, MN4 - NO data assimilation, only prior solutions 
based on forcing, derived from the best fitting inverse 
solutions, obtained for corresponding linear constituents. 
Q1, Mm, Mf are the same as in tpxo7.1
 
 
Figure 2. Amplitude difference between TPXO7.1 and TPXO7.2


M2 elevation difference log10|hM2tpxo7.2- hM2tpxo7.1|

O1 elevation difference log10|hO1tpxo7.2- hO1tpxo7.1|

Comparison of tpxo7.1/tpxo7.2 RMS misfits (cm) for groups of tide gauges:
 
 
Pelagic
102
Arctic
256
Antarctic
67
Truth**
Shallow 178
Truth** Deep
Atlantic 36
N Australia
148
M2
Tpxo7.1
1.47
11.27
3.61
10.36
0.84
19.93
Tpxo7.2
1.48
9.83
2.16
6.92
0.83
13.57
S2
Tpxo7.1
0.96
4.22
3.00
7.39
0.63
12.42
Tpxo7.2
0.94
3.97
1.80
3.80
0.64
7.52
N2
Tpxo7.1
0.65
2.45
1.15
3.31
0.27
n/a
Tpxo7.2
0.64
1.15
0.79
2.08
0.27
n/a
 
Tpxo7.1
0.40
n/a
1.19
2.42
0.20
n/a
Tpxo7.2
0.38
n/a
1.28
1.66
0.19
n/a
K1
Tpxo7.1
1.07
2.17
3.74
3.39
0.67
6.36
Tpxo7.2
1.07
2.15
1.88
1.76
0.57
4.42
O1
Tpxo7.1
0.80
1.51
4.17
1.80
0.38
3.41
Tpxo7.2
0.85
1.44
1.98
1.14
0.45
2.73
P1
Tpxo7.1
0.37
n/a
0.96
2.58
0.17
n/a
Tpxo7.2
0.37
n/a
1.12
0.95
0.23
n/a
 
M4
RMS signal
n/a
n/a
n/a
3.70
0.34
2.35
Tpxo7.1
n/a
n/a
n/a
2.24
0.11
2.31
Tpxo7.2
n/a
n/a
n/a
2.03
0.09
2.13
 
MS4
RMS signal
n/a
n/a
n/a
2.53
0.17
n/a
Tpxo7.1*
n/a
n/a
n/a
3.66
0.19
n/a
Tpxo7.2
n/a
n/a
n/a
1.73
0.19
n/a
 
MN4
RMS signal
n/a
n/a
n/a
1.73
0.14
n/a
Tpxo7.1*
n/a
n/a
n/a
2.11
0.19
n/a
Tpxo7.2
n/a
n/a
n/a
1.39
0.15
n/a
*MS4, MN4 were not included in publicly available tpxo7.1
** Truth tide gauges sets compiled by Richard Ray (NASA)