Welcome to the free ocean tide loading provider

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NEWS   
IMPORTANT and NEW: A Code of Good Conduct - please read carefully.

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December 2021: Stricter coding requirements for direct email
If you bypass the web page and instead send your requests by email, we refer to updated instructions as users had been experiencing denial of service.

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April 25, 2021: New model EOT20
(Hart-Davis et al., DGFI, doi=10.17882/79489)
July 12, 2021: Problems have been found recently. A revised version has been installed today at 10:00 UTC. Please resend your requests issued before this date.

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August 9, 2020: Error in GOT4.10c with centre of mass option
Tides Q1 and K2 had erroneous coefficients for centre of mass.
Please resubmit your sites if you have used this combination of options.

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June 26, 2020: New model TPXO.9.2a

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March 7, 2020: Error in our copies of GOT4.10c, Q₁ and K₂ amplitudes, corrected.
For high-precision applications, the set of loading coefficients should be recomputed.

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January 6, 2019: New model TPXO.9-Atlas
A high-resolution model, 30x30 cells per square-degree. Loading jobs are carried out at SEGAL at UBI/IDL inPortugal.

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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. You can choose an alternative, a Green's function for an anelastic Earth [...] . Further reading: Bos and Scherneck (2013)

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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.

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February 05, 2018: Revision of service for gravity and tilt
Today the service goes official with tilt parameters [...].

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February 05, 2018: Revised version of converter script
for BLQ to TSOFT and g-Software (Micro'g Lacoste), [...]

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(old news)

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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, 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.

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Select ocean tide model
A brief description of the ocean tide models can be found here. Note: Default model is a fake to bar spammers
Default  GOT00.2  GOT4.7  GOT4.8  GOT4.10c  GOT99.2b  Andersen 2006  DTU10 Andersen 2010  EOT08a Savcenko+Bosch 2008  EOT11a Savcenko+Bosch 2011  EOT20 Hart-Davis et al. 2020  FES94.1  FES95.2  FES98  FES99  FES2004  FES2012  FES2014b  HAMTIDE Taguchi+Stammer 2011  CSR3.0  CSR4.0  NAO.99b  OSU12  TPXO.5  TPXO.6.2  TPXO.7.0  TPXO.7.1  TPXO.7.2  TPXO8-Atlas  TPXO9-Atlas  TPXO9.2a  Schwiderski 

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

using Greens function
elastic (Farrell, 1972)
visco-elastic (STW105)

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)

//sala 11.9264 57.3958 0.0000 //ruler.................b................<...............<............... // Records starting with // are treated as comments

(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 why-not criteria and (un-)common errors 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. 

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Last updated: Jan 8, 2022

Send comments or questions to Hans-Georg Scherneck, hgs_kanelbulle_chalmers.se
Don't send them to loading_kanelbulle_chalmers.se
---the system trashes anything but ocean loading requests after strictly parsing the filled-in form.