Lunar tides in Loch Ness, Scotland

Pugh, David T.; Woodworth, Philip L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6681-239X; Bos, Machiel S.. 2011 Lunar tides in Loch Ness, Scotland. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, C11040. 8, pp. 10.1029/2011JC007411

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Abstract/Summary

Measurements have been made of the astronomical tide in Loch Ness, Scotland, which is not directly connected to marine tides. Our measurements of the loch tide are, so far as we know, the first in a European lake where the tide originates primarily from ocean tide loading. Loch Ness is a readily accessible lake and is in a region for which the neighboring ocean tides are large and described well by modern global ocean tide models. The principal tidal constituent, M2, was observed to have an amplitude of approximately 1.5 mm, and to be in antiphase, at each end of the loch. These values are in close agreement with the theoretical combined effects of the direct gravitational tide (body tide) and the tilt effects due to ocean tide loading, computed using Green's functions based on conventional elastic-Earth models. By analyzing over long periods for coherent tidal signals, we are able to significantly improve the signal-to-noise ratio in the tilt values compared with values obtained by direct level differencing. Our tilt accuracy of better than 10−8, measured over 35 km, demonstrates Loch Ness as one the world's longest and most accurate tiltmeters. Despite this unprecedented accuracy, Earth tidal models are still at least as accurate as our ability to measure them

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1029/2011JC007411
Programmes:	POL Programmes
ISSN:	0148-0227
Additional Keywords:	GREENS FUNCTIONS; LOCH NESS TIDES; OCEAN TIDE MODELS;
NORA Subject Terms:	Earth Sciences
Date made live:	12 Dec 2011 16:01 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/16102

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