Ocean tide loading correction for InSAR measurements: Comparison of different ocean tide models

With the rapid development of modern Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar(InSAR)missions,SAR instruments with wider coverage can be used to monitor the ground surface deformation from regional to global scale.However,the ocean tide loading(OTL)displacement is becoming a primary source of errors.It contributes to a long-wavelength signal in InSAR interferograms,leading to errors from millimeter to centimeter-level in InSAR deformation monitoring,especially over coastal areas.Although the state-of-the-art has applied ocean tide models to mitigate the errors,the difference between them and their impact on InSAR measurements are rarely discussed.In this paper,we compare representative ocean tide models and investigate their effects in the correction of OTL errors.We found that(i)the modeled OTL displacements from different models show little difference over interiors far from the ocean,while disagreement becomes larger over coastal areas;(ii)the magnitude of OTL artifacts may be greater than the atmospheric delays in some coastal areas,and the correction using ocean tide models can effectively attenuate the OTL effects for large-scale InSAR measurements;(iii)when correcting the OTL errors for InSAR measurements,the global model TPXO and FES are recommended because of their better overall performance,while the NAO model performs the worst.The local models with high spatial resolution can help improve the capability of coarse global models in complex topographic areas.

Ocean Loading Tides Corrections of GPS Stations in Antarctica

This paper describes the ocean loading tides corrections of GPS stations in Antarctica, such as the Great Wall station and Zhongshan station. Based on the theory of ocean loading tides, the displacement corrections of ocean loading tides on GPS stations in Antarctica are calculated by using the CRS4.0 ocean loading tides model. These corrections are also applied to GPS data proc-essing. The GPS data are analyzed by the GAMIT software with and without these corrections. We compared and analyzed the GPS baseline components to get the differences. The results show that the ocean tidal displacement corrections have obvious effects upon GPS baseline components. Therefore, we should not ignore the ocean loading tides corrections of GPS stations in Antarctica to obtain precise and reliable results.

Influence of the modified global ocean tide model with local tides of East and South China Seas on load gravity in China and its neighbor area

By using 11 global ocean tide models and tidal gauge data obtained in the East China Sea and South China Sea, the influence of the ocean loading on gravity field in China and its neighbor area is calculated in this paper. Furthermore, the differences between the results from original global models and modified models with local tides are discussed based on above calculation. The comparison shows that the differences at the position near the sea are so large that the local tides must be taken into account in the calculation. When the global ocean tide models of CSR4.0, FES02, GOT00, NAO99 and ORI96 are chosen, the local effect for M2 is less than 0.10 × 10-8 m·s-2 over the area far away from sea. And the local effect for O1 is less than 0.05 × 10-8 m·s-2 over that area when choosing AG95 or CSR3.0 models. This numerical result demonstrates that the choice of model is a complex problem because of the inconsistent accuracy of the models over the areas of East and South China Seas.

Synthetic tidal parameters for gravity over China and its neighbor area

The synthetic tidal parameters with high spatial resolution for gravity over China and its neighbor area are constructed with Earth＇s tidal model and ocean tide loading calculated using TPXO7 global ocean tide model as well as tidal data over China seas. The comparison between synthetic parameters and ones observed by spring gravimeters at some seismic network stations and Hong Kong station and one observed by super-conducting gravimeter at Wuhan station shows that the average differences in amplitude factors and phases are smaller than 0.005 and 0.5° respectively; and that the discrepancies between observational and synthetic parameters are dependent on gravimetric technique in that the synthetic parameters are in well agreement with the superconducting gravimetric observations. This also indicates that the synthetic result is a good estimation for tidal gravity, and the numerical results in the present paper not only can provide ground and space gravimetry such as absolute gravimetry with correction model of tidal gravity, but also provide effective tidal parameters over areas where no observation is carried out.