Ocean tide loading provider

Welcome to the free ocean tide loading provider

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NEWS

February 05, 2018: Alternative loading Greens function available
For decades the load convolution used an elastic Greens function based on the Gutenberg-Bullen earth model. Now you can choose an alternative, a Green's function for an anelastic Earth based on PREM assuming a flat Q-factor spectrum. Presently, the PREM option is not available yet together with ocean models FES2014b, FES2012 and TPXO8-Atlas; we are working on it.

February 05, 2018: A pro-memoriam on BLQ files (updated)
with emphasis on phase and its conversion for reckoning with respect to the local solid earth tide.

February 05, 2018: Revision of service for gravity and tilt
Today the service goes official with tilt parameters. We had to bring scaling and signs at both computing sites into consistency first. Still, please read the header information in the result mail carefully!
We kindly urge all users who used our service for tilt before Feb. 05, 2018, to issue their requests again.

February 05, 2018: Revised version of converter script for BLQ to TSOFT and g-Software (Micro'g Lacoste),
We offer a converter script olgte.pl (in perl v.5.8.8).
Caution, this is still a beta-version!
To run it under MS Windows, read here.
Please issue olgte.pl -h for usage.

December 24, 2017: Grids
Global grids of ocean tide loading displacements in netCDF-format and medium resolution are now available. Please read the instructions presented when you follow the link. Feedback is highly welcome. The new set is provided as-is, no service is included except the promise that we inform those users that left us a note of updates and bug reports.
Machiel Bos and HGS are currently working towards augmenting the Loading Provider with a new set of high-resolution grids, much more actual and user-friendly, we hope. Goal: Ready in the first quarter of 2018.

November 10, 2017: New tide model added: GOT.4.10c

February 12, 2017: Speedier service for jobs forwarded to Segal.
Clients who request calculations with the high-resolution models FES2014b, FES2012 and TPXO8-Atlas had previously to wait in the queue at OSO until their job was in the top position. Now, the job queue is processed separately, and high-resolution jobs are relayed to Segal immediately (i.e. with 10 seconds delay at maximum).

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Introduction

With the growing number of precise geodetic observations, the requests for ocean tide loading values have increased considerably. Therefore, this webpage has been created in the hope it will help the geodetic community. Just select an ocean tide model, tick the required type of loading, fill in the coordinates of the stations, give your e-mail address and press the submit button. The program will check if it can read your input and if so, it will calculate the values and send the results to you by e-mail. The program will take about 5 minutes per station. An example of the output in normal BLQ-formal can be found here while an example of the output in the new HARPOS-format can be found here .

If you find it tiresome to go through our web interface, you can send email to the loading provider in a special format.

Select ocean tide model
A brief description of the ocean tide models can be found here.

What type of loading phenomenon do you consider
vertical and horizontal displacements
gravity nm/s² and tilt nrad

using Greens function
elastic
visco-elastic (under construction)

If you have selected vertical and horizontal displacements, you can correct for the centre of mass motion of the Earth due to the ocean tides . ( NO means your frame origin is in the solid earth centre, YES that it is in the joint mass centre of solid earth and ocean.)
Do you want to correct your loading values for the motion?
NO
YES

Want a plot? (New feature of Sep. 4, 2011)
The plots show the near-field resolution of the coastline. They are generated for each site that involves the loading post-processor OLMPP. Compare with the comment information in the result file.
NO
YES
Fetch it here after you received the results. Look for your user name: name-olmpp1.png name-olmpp2.png etc.

What kind of output format is required?
BLQ (normal)
HARPOS (... RECENTLY ADDED FEATURE ...)
Gravity loading parameters for TSOFT and g-Software can be converted from BLQ with olgt.pl

Where are your stations?
In the following form up to one hundred stations can be entered but each station should be on a separate line. The height of the station above sea level is irrelevant for ocean tide load modelling of displacements: it is not necessary to input this parameter, it can be safely omitted.


Name of station_________\|	\|Longitude (deg)	\| Latitude (deg)	\| Height (m)	OR
Name of station_________\|	X (m)	Y (m)	Z (m)

(Our fixed column layout: 24 characters for the station, 25'th column blank, then three numerical fields with a width of 16 characters each, no TAB characters please!)

What is your e-mail address?
Note: Because of a large amount of misuse we deny requests with return addresses at a couple of notorious domains.

No reply?
If you do not get a reply within a few hours, please have a look at our collection of undeliverable mail (it should work again) and
check that you have supplied a correct email-address.
Your job may be in the queue. Have a look here, it's updated every minute.
If you find the results useful, please cite this website mentioning the names M.S. Bos and H.-G. Scherneck.

Last updated: July 27, 2011
Send comments or questions to Hans-Georg Scherneck, hgs kanelbulle chalmers.se