Open robbibt opened 3 months ago
Hey @robbibt! Great question. It would require functionality that currently doesn't exist within pyTMD, but is where I see some future development going. I am starting to slowly tinker on some of these problems in the solve branch. Basically want to be able to read the X-TRACK data (along with other datasets), and then solve for the tidal constants in a way that is consistent with ocean hydrodynamics. That is the idea anyways.
No worries, that sounds awesome! We don't have any immediate use case at the moment, but very interested in anything you come up with - could open up a bunch of awesome applications. 🚀
Hi @tsutterley, this is mainly a scoping question/out of curiosity: I recently came across AVISO's satellite altimetry X-TRACK along-track tidal constants products: https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/auxiliary-products/coastal-tide-xtrack.html
Are these constants potentially something that could be used to model tides in pyTMD using any existing tooling? Or would it require functionality that doesn't currently exist?