9. Tides#

Using the method described by Flather and Davies [1976], CROCO is able to propagate the different tidal constituents from its lateral boundaries.

To do so, you will need to add the tidal components to the forcing file.

Edit crocotools_param.m section 5

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%
% 5-Parameters for tidal forcing
%
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%
% TPXO file name (TPXO7)
%
tidename=[CROCOTOOLS_dir,'TPXO7/TPXO7.nc'];
%
% Number of tides component to process
%
Ntides=10;
%
% Chose order from the rank in the TPXO file :
% "M2 S2 N2 K2 K1 O1 P1 Q1 Mf Mm"
% " 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"
%
tidalrank=[1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10];
%
% Compare with tidegauge observations
%
lon0=18.37;
lat0=-33.91; % Cape Town location
Z0=1; % Mean depth of the tidegauge in Cape Town

Launch pre-processing of tides in Matlab:
```
start
make_tides
```
Check your croco_frc.nc file