Analysis of Calculated Results

The various mathematical models used do normally generate a great amount of transient results which can be automatically analysed to calculate the following characteristic numbers.

Additional Informations Related to Analysis of Calculated Results

• Elementary Aspects of Data Analyses
• Parameters for Data Analyses
• Analyse von HN-Modellergebnissen im Tidegebiet. Published in Mitteilungsblatt der Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau Nr. 86 (2003), available in German only.

Tidal Characteristic Numbers

• Water level
• Current, Water Transport
• Salinity, Salt Transport
• Suspended Sediments
• Tracer Load
• Temperature, Heat Transport
• Bedload
• eff. Bed Shear Stress
• Morphodynamics

Computation of tidal characteristic numbers is only meaningful for tidal waters, where the tide is the dominant process. Gravitational as well as centrifugal forces cause tidal forces on Earth. Some significant causes as well as phenomena are explained in the following animation as well as on the poster:

• animation Entstehung der Gezeiten (in German, 325 MB, MP4 file format, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5446/15182 ), and
• poster Gezeiten - Entstehung und Phänomene (in German, 18 MB, PDF file format).

Tidal Harmonic Analysis

• Water level
• Current Velocity

Characteristic Numbers (independent of the presence of tides)

• Water level
• Current, Water Transport
• Salinity, Salt Transport
• Suspended Sediments, Suspended Sediment Transport
• Tracer Load, Tracer Transport
• Temperature, Heat Transport
• Oxygen Concentration
• Bed Load Transport, Sediment Transport (bed load and suspended load)
• eff. Bed Shear Stress
• Morphodynamics
• Meteorology
• Wave

Tidal Energy Transport

Mean transports for the integration period:

• Tidal Energy Transport

(Simple) Extreme Values

• maximum and minimum value (program ABDF)
• maximum, mean and minimum value for variables in UGRID CF NetCDF files, for transient variables time series are printed (program NCAUTO)

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