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Characteristics of Tides in the Bay of Bengal

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Title Characteristics of Tides in the Bay of Bengal
 
Creator Sindhu, B.
Unnikrishnan, A.S.
 
Subject Semidiurnal tides
Diurnal tides
Amphidromic systems
Mathematical models
 
Description A vertically integrated 2D numerical model was developed for the simulation of major tidal constituents (M2, S2, N2, K1 and O1) in the Bay of Bengal. The bathymetry for the model domain was derived from an improved ETOPO5 dataset prepared in our earlier work. The simulated tidal elevations showed good agreement with the hourly tide gauge observations at Paradip, Visakhapatnam, and Chennai. The amplitudes and phases of M2, S2, K1, and O1 at the coastal stations, obtained from harmonic analysis of simulated tides, were found to agree well with those obtained from Admiralty Tide Tables with the RMS misfit 9.2, 5.6, 2.9 and 3.1 cm, respectively. In the Bay of Bengal, semi-diurnal tides (M2, S2, and N2) attain highest amplitudes (180, 80, 30 cm, respectively) in the Gulf of Martaban while amplitudes of diurnal tides (K1, O1) reaches maximum (20, 12 cm, respectively) in the Malacca Strait. The continental shelf in the head bay and along the southern coast of Myanmar is about 200 km wide and the amplitudes of semi-diurnal tides are doubled in these regions while the diurnal tides amplify only marginally, which is consistent with Clarke and Battisti theory. In the north eastern end of the head bay and the Gulf of Martaban, the geometrical configuration of the coastline, in addition to the wide continental shelf, could contribute to the amplification of both semi-diurnal and diurnal constituents. In the Malacca Strait, the amplitudes of both semi-diurnal and diurnal tides are found to increase gradually from the northern end to the 2.5°N and decreases towards southern boundary. The co-tidal and co-range charts of M2 and S2 tidal constituents also show the presence of two degenerate amphidromic points in the head bay. A virtual amphidromic point for M2 is identified in the Malacca Strait.
 
Date 2014-01-13T08:46:39Z
2014-01-13T08:46:39Z
2013
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Marine Geodesy, vol.36; 2013; 377–407
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/4422
 
Language en
 
Rights The final and definitive form of the preprint has been published in the "Marine Geodesy" © 2013 Taylor & Francis; "Marine Geodesy" is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com with open URL of article : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490419.2013.781088. The term & condition associated with this preprint is at http://www.tandfonline.com/page/terms-and-conditions
 
Publisher Taylor and Francis