These datasets in this directory were provided by Malte Muller, personal communication October 2014. They are described in Malte's 2013 paper: Muller, M., On the space- and time-dependence of barotropic-to-baroclinic tidal energy conversion. Ocean Modelling 72 (2013) 242-252 From the abstract: "...a modulation function is derived from the full lunisolar tidal potential described by ephemerides, in order to allow the internal tide generation to be modulated on monthly to bi-decadal timescales. This function reproduces the modulation of the tidal constituents in real-time. The coupling of this function with the spatial conversion rates depicts the regional and temporal dependence of tidal energy conversion." From Malte 2014-10-09: In the tables 4 - 7 I give modulation in percentages for the different periods. K1 and S2 have strong semi-annual and also annual variations. I would include them but leave the monthly variations out. If you have resources you might want to account for the other ones in an additional experiment. However, do you really want monthly timesteps? Then you force with some kind of step function. Maybe I better should give you a smooth function with daily or hourly values? Since these are 1D timeseries, they are not very big in size. ________________________________________________________ Table 4 List of all tidal constituents which modulate the M2 tide by more than 1% and with periods longer than 27 days. The tidal constituents (Tide), their frequency (f) and period (T), and the modulation period TM and relative amplitude AM are given. _________________________________________ Tide f (1/hour) T (hour) TM (days) AM (%) ----------------------------------------- N2 0.07899925 12.66 27.55 19.14 m2 0.07920162 12.63 31.81 3.62 M2n 0.08050527 12.42 6797.17 3.75 M2 0.0805114 12.42 L2 0.08202355 12.19 27.55 2.81 ________________________________________________________ Table 5 Same as in Table 4, but for the S2 tidal constituent. _________________________________________ Tide f (1/hour) T (hour) TM (days) AM (%) ----------------------------------------- k2 0.08182118 12.22 27.55 1.56 L2.. 0.08202355 12.19 31.81 6.02 L2a 0.08204934 12.19 32.45 1.52 T2 0.08321926 12.02 365.27 5.85 S2 0.08333333 12.00 R2 0.08344741 11.98 365.24 1.03 K2 0.08356149 11.97 182.62 27.19 K2n 0.08356762 11.97 177.84 8.07 g2 0.08507364 11.75 23.94 1.52 Table 6 Same as in Table 4, but for the K1 tidal constituent. _________________________________________ Tide f (1/hour) T (hour) TM (days) AM (%) ----------------------------------------- NO1a 0.04024281 24.85 27.09 2.00 NO1 0.04026859 24.83 27.55 5.60 NO1n 0.04027472 24.83 27.67 1.12 v1 0.04047097 24.71 31.81 1.07 p1 0.04143851 24.13 121.75 1.93 p1 0.04155259 24.07 182.62 33.10 K1n 0.04177462 23.94 6797.17 1.91 K1 0.04178075 23.93 K1n 0.04178688 23.93 6797.17 13.51 /1 0.04200891 23.80 182.62 1.38 h1 0.04309053 23.21 31.81 1.07 J1 0.0432929 23.10 27.55 5.60 J1n 0.04329903 23.10 27.44 1.10 Table 7 Same as in Table 4, but for the O1 tidal constituent. _________________________________________ Tide f (1/hour) T (hour) TM (days) AM (%) ----------------------------------------- Q1n 0.03721237 26.87 27.44 3.61 Q1 0.0372185 26.87 27.55 19.18 q1 0.03742087 26.72 31.81 3.64 O1n 0.03872453 25.82 6797.17 18.90 O1 0.03873065 25.82 s1 0.03895881 25.67 182.62 1.36 NO1a 0.04024281 24.85 27.55 2.81 NO1 0.04026859 24.83 27.09 7.88 NO1n 0.04027472 24.83 26.98 1.57