Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres A global ground truth view of the lunar air pressure tide L 2
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres A global ground truth view of the lunar air pressure tide L 2
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地球物理研究杂志:大气 月球气压潮 L 2 的全球地面实况视图
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A. Saifuddin
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S. Redla;T. Sikdar;A. Saifuddin
A comprehensive model of the lunar air pressure tide L 2 is developed on the basis of 2315 ground truth estimates from land barometers and moored buoys. Regional-scale features of the tide and its seasonal modulations are well resolved by the in situ scatter and gridded to a 2 ∘ mesh through multiquadric interpolation. The resulting climatologies serve as an independent standard to validate the lunar semidiurnal tidal signal that is present in ERA-Interim reanalysis products despite the absence of L 2 -related gravitational forcing mechanisms in the prescribed model physics. Inconsistencies between the reanalysis solution of the barometric lunar tide and its empirical account are generally small, yet when averaged over the period 1979–2010, ERA-Interim underestimates the 100 μ bar open ocean tidal amplitude in the Tropics by up to 20 μ bar and produces times of peak pressure that are too early by 10 lunar minutes. Large-amplitude features of the reanalysis tide off the coast of Alaska, the eastern U.S., and Great Britain are evidently spurious, introduced to the analysis system by assimilating marine pressure data at an invariant reference surface instead of properly accounting for vertical sensor movements associated with the M 2 ocean tide. Additionally, a credible L 2 signal is documented for the ERA-20C pilot reanalysis of the twentieth century. The fact that this model rests upon input data from mere surface observations provides an unambiguous indication that the lunar tidal oscillation in atmospheric analysis systems is closely tied to the assimilation of conventional pressure measurements from stations and marine objects.