Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer

Articles

1980: Vol. LVII, No. 1

An Improved Method for Smoothing and Interpolating Hourly Sea Level Data

Submitted
August 6, 2015
Published
2015-07-10

Abstract

A method for smoothing and interpolating observed hourly digital tidal elevations is presented. The method which is based on fitting a small number of harmonic tidal components to the data series has proved to be superior to standard smoothing procedures and can be applied to data from different tidal regimes. The method is relatively simple, economical, and can be executed on standard digital computers with limited storage capacity.