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Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Tidal Mixing Signatures in Indonesian Seas from High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature by Susanto, Raden Dwi, Ray, Richard D

“…With their complex narrow passages and vigorous mixing, the Indonesian seas provide the only low-latitude pathway between the Pacific and Indian Oceans and…”
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Forcing Factors Affecting Sea Level Changes at the Coast by Woodworth, Philip L, Melet, Angelique, Marcos, Marta, Ray, Richard D, Woppelmann, Guy, Sasaki, Yoshi N, Cirano, Mauro, Hibbert, Angela, Huthnance, John M, Monserrat, Sebastia, Merrifield, Mark A

“…We review the characteristics of sea level variability at the coast focussing on how it differs from the variability in the nearby deep ocean. Sea level…”
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Tidal mixing signatures in the Indonesian seas from high‐resolution sea surface temperature data by Ray, Richard D., Susanto, R. Dwi

“…The presence of significant tidal mixing in the Indonesian seas is well established from both observations and numerical modeling. One indicator is a clear…”
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Experiments in reconstructing twentieth-century sea levels by Ray, Richard D, Douglas, Bruce C

“…One approach to reconstructing historical sea level from the relatively sparse tide-gauge network is to employ Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOFs) as…”
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Secular changes in the solar semidiurnal tide of the western North Atlantic Ocean by Ray, Richard D.

“…An analysis of twentieth century tide gauge records reveals that the solar semidiurnal tide S2 has been decreasing in amplitude along the eastern coast of…”
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A likely role for stratification in long-term changes of the global ocean tides by Opel, Lana, Schindelegger, Michael, Ray, Richard D.

“…Stratification—that is, the vertical change in seawater density—exerts a subtle control on the energetics and thus the surface elevation of barotropic (depth…”
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Assimilation of altimetry data for nonlinear shallow-water tides: Quarter-diurnal tides of the Northwest European Shelf by Egbert, Gary D., Erofeeva, Svetlana Y., Ray, Richard D.

“…Non-linear tidal constituents, such as the overtide M 4 or the compound tide MS 4, are generated by interaction in shallow seas of the much larger…”
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Estimates of M2 tidal energy dissipation from TOPEX/Poseidon altimeter data by Egbert, Gary D., Ray, Richard D.

“…Most of the tidal energy dissipation in the ocean occurs in shallow seas, as has long been recognized. However, recent work has suggested that a significant…”
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Numerical modeling of the global semidiurnal tide in the present day and in the last glacial maximum by Egbert, Gary D., Ray, Richard D., Bills, Bruce G.

“…A hydrodynamic model incorporating a self‐consistent treatment of ocean self‐attraction and loading (SAL), and a physically based parameterization of internal…”
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A Fortnightly Atmospheric 'Tide' at Bali Caused by Oceanic Tidal Mixing in Lombok Strait by Ray, Richard D., Susanto, R. Dwi

“…Strong tidal currents in and around the narrow straits of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, affect ocean sea surface temperatures (SST) via non-linear…”
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Propagation of the overtide M4 through the deep Atlantic Ocean by Ray, Richard D.

“…The nonlinear overtide M4 is generated in shallow waters and is generally no more than a few mm amplitude in the deep ocean. Such small, periodic waves can now…”
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Future Nuisance Flooding at Boston Caused by Astronomical Tides Alone by Ray, Richard D., Foster, Grant

“…Sea level rise necessarily triggers more occurrences of minor, or nuisance, flooding events along coastlines, a fact well documented in recent studies. At some…”
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First global observations of third-degree ocean tides by Ray, Richard D.

“…A new family of small ocean tides is extracted from three decades of satellite altimetry. The Moon’s tidal potential is slightly asymmetric, giving rise to…”
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The Mean Seasonal Cycle in Relative Sea Level From Satellite Altimetry and Gravimetry by Ray, Richard D, Loomis, Bryant D, Zlotnicki, Victor

“…Satellite altimetry and gravimetry are used to determine the mean seasonal cycle in relative sea level, a quantity relevant to coastal flooding and related…”
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Ocean tidal solutions in Antarctica from GRACE inter-satellite tracking data by Han, Shin-Chan, Ray, Richard D., Luthcke, Scott B.

“…Long‐wavelength components of the oceanic tides surrounding Antarctica are estimated directly from three years of GRACE satellite‐to‐satellite ranging…”
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Estimates of internal tide energy fluxes from Topex/Poseidon Altimetry: Central North Pacific by Ray, Richard D., Cartwright, David E.

“…Energy fluxes for first‐mode M2 internal tides are deduced throughout the central North Pacific Ocean from Topex/Poseidon satellite altimeter data. Temporally…”
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Using an Altimeter-Derived Internal Tide Model to Remove Tides from in Situ Data by Zaron, Edward D., Ray, Richard D.

“…Internal waves at tidal frequencies, i.e., the internal tides, are a prominent source of variability in the ocean associated with significant vertical…”
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Interannual Changes in Tidal Conversion Modulate M2 Amplitudes in the Gulf of Maine by Schindelegger, Michael, Kotzian, Daniel P., Ray, Richard D., Green, J. A. Mattias, Stolzenberger, Sophie

“…The Gulf of Maine's lunar semidiurnal (M2) ocean tide exhibits spatially coherent amplitude changes of ∼1–3 cm on interannual time scales, though no causative…”
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Wave Setup at the Minamitorishima Tide Gauge by Ray, Richard D., Merrifield, Mark A., Woodworth, Philip L.

“…A tide gauge situated on the western shore of Minamitorishima, a small atoll in the western Pacific, has measured sea levels significantly impacted by wave…”
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The Accidental Tide Gauge: A GPS Reflection Case Study From Kachemak Bay, Alaska by Larson, K. M., Ray, R. D., Nievinski, F. G., Freymueller, J. T.

“…For the last decade, it has been known that reflected GPS signals observed with specialized instruments could be used to measure sea level. In this letter,…”
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