X-TRACK tidal constants and pyTMD?

[robbibt]

Hi @tsutterley, this is mainly a scoping question/out of curiosity: I recently came across AVISO's satellite altimetry X-TRACK along-track tidal constants products: https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/auxiliary-products/coastal-tide-xtrack.html

Are these constants potentially something that could be used to model tides in pyTMD using any existing tooling? Or would it require functionality that doesn't currently exist?

[tsutterley]

Hey @robbibt! Great question. It would require functionality that currently doesn't exist within pyTMD, but is where I see some future development going. I am starting to slowly tinker on some of these problems in the solve branch. Basically want to be able to read the X-TRACK data (along with other datasets), and then solve for the tidal constants in a way that is consistent with ocean hydrodynamics. That is the idea anyways.

[robbibt]

No worries, that sounds awesome! We don't have any immediate use case at the moment, but very interested in anything you come up with - could open up a bunch of awesome applications. 🚀