The Wadden Sea is a coastal region strongly influenced by ocean tides, which play a significant role on sea level variability, particularly compound flooding events, and biogeochemical processes. Tidal dynamics in the coastal region is particularly challenging to observe by altimetry, due to land contamination of nadir altimeters, and thus to model.
This study will analyze tidal characteristics in the complex coastal regime of the Wadden Sea, exploiting the SWOT wide-swath observations and the FFSAR processing on Sentinel-6, as well as the preliminary combination developed in Task 2, to evaluate the spatial variability of individual tidal constituents, especially the major ones.
The satellite observations will be compared to state-of-the-art tide models. The satellite observations will be compared to state-of-the-art tide models and in-situ tide gauge observations.
