The fit is done in terms of sine and cosine components at the indicated tidal frequencies, with the amplitude and phase being calculated from the resultant coefficients on the sine and cosine terms.

tidem(
t,
x,
constituents,
infer = NULL,
latitude = NULL,
rc = 1,
regress = lm,
debug = getOption("oceDebug")
)

## Arguments

t A sealevel object created with read.sealevel() or as.sealevel(), or a vector of times. In the former case, time is part of the object, so t may not be given here. In the latter case, tidem needs a way to determine time, so t must be given. an optional numerical vector holding something that varies with time. This is ignored if t is a sealevel object, in which case it is inferred as t[["elevation"]]. an optional character vector holding the names of tidal constituents to which the fit is done (see “Details” and “Constituent Naming Convention”.) a list of constituents to be inferred from fitted constituents according to the method outlined in Section 2.3.4 of Foreman (1978). If infer is NULL, the default, then no such inferences are made. Otherwise, some constituents are computed based on other constituents, instead of being determined by regression at the proper frequency. If provided, infer must be a list containing four elements: name, a vector of strings naming the constituents to be inferred; from, a vector of strings naming the fitted constituents used as the sources for those inferences (these source constituents are added to the regression list, if they are not already there); amp, a numerical vector of factors to be applied to the source amplitudes; and phase, a numerical vector of angles, in degrees, to be subtracted from the source phases. For example, Following Foreman (1998), if any of the name items have already been computed, then the suggested inference is ignored, and the already-computed values are used.infer=list(name=c("P1","K2"), from=c("K1", "S2"), amp=c(0.33093, 0.27215), phase=c(-7.07, -22.4) means that the amplitude of P1 will be set as 0.33093 times the calculated amplitude of K1, and that the P1 phase will be set to the K1 phase, minus an offset of -7.07 degrees. (This example is used in the Foreman (1978) discussion of a Fortran analysis code and also in Pawlowicz et al. (2002) discussion of the T_TIDE Matlab code. Rounded to the 0.1mm resolution of values reported in Foreman (1978) and Pawlowicz et al. (2002), the tidem results have root-mean-square amplitude difference to Foreman's (1978) Appendix 7.3 of 0.06mm; by comparison, the results in Table 1 of Pawlowicz et al. (2002) agree with Foreman's results to RMS difference 0.04mm.) if provided, the latitude of the observations. If not provided, tidem will try to infer this from sl. the value of the coefficient in the Rayleigh criterion. function to be used for regression, by default lm(), but could be for example rlm from the MASS package. an integer specifying whether debugging information is to be printed during the processing. This is a general parameter that is used by many oce functions. Generally, setting debug=0 turns off the printing, while higher values suggest that more information be printed. If one function calls another, it usually reduces the value of debug first, so that a user can often obtain deeper debugging by specifying higher debug values.

## Value

An object of tidem, consisting of

const

constituent number, e.g. 1 for Z0, 1 for SA, etc.

model

the regression model

name

a vector of constituent names, in non-subscript format, e.g. "M2".

frequency

a vector of constituent frequencies, in inverse hours.

amplitude

a vector of fitted constituent amplitudes, in metres.

phase

a vector of fitted constituent phase. NOTE: The definition of phase is likely to change as this function evolves. For now, it is phase with respect to the first data sample.

p

a vector containing a sort of p value for each constituent. This is calculated as the average of the p values for the sine() and cosine() portions used in fitting; whether it makes any sense is an open question.

## Details

The tidal constituents to be used in the analysis are specified as follows; see “Constituent Naming Convention”.

1. If constituents is not provided, then the constituent list will be made up of the 69 constituents designated by Foreman as "standard". These include astronomical frequencies and some shallow-water frequencies, and are as follows: c("Z0", "SA", "SSA", "MSM", "MM", "MSF", "MF", "ALP1", "2Q1", "SIG1", "Q1", "RHO1", "O1", "TAU1", "BET1", "NO1", "CHI1", "PI1", "P1", "S1", "K1", "PSI1", "PHI1", "THE1", "J1", "SO1", "OO1", "UPS1", "OQ2", "EPS2", "2N2", "MU2", "N2", "NU2", "GAM2", "H1", "M2", "H2", "MKS2", "LDA2", "L2", "T2", "S2", "R2", "K2", "MSN2", "ETA2", "MO3", "M3", "SO3", "MK3", "SK3", "MN4", "M4", "SN4", "MS4", "MK4", "S4", "SK4", "2MK5", "2SK5", "2MN6", "M6", "2MS6", "2MK6", "2SM6", "MSK6", "3MK7", "M8").

2. If the first item in constituents is the string "standard", then a provisional list is set up as in Case 1, and then the (optional) rest of the elements of constituents are examined, in order. Each of these constituents is based on the name of a tidal constituent in the Foreman (1978) notation. (To get the list, execute data(tidedata) and then execute cat(tideData$name).) Each named constituent is added to the existing list, if it is not already there. But, if the constituent is preceded by a minus sign, then it is removed from the list (if it is already there). Thus, for example, constituents=c("standard", "-M2", "ST32") would remove the M2 constituent and add the ST32 constituent. 3. If the first item is not "standard", then the list of constituents is processed as in Case 2, but without starting with the standard list. As an example, constituents=c("K1", "M2") would fit for just the K1 and M2 components. (It would be strange to use a minus sign to remove items from the list, but the function allows that.) In each of the above cases, the list is reordered in frequency prior to the analysis, so that the results of summary,tidem-method() will be in a familiar form. Once the constituent list is determined, tidem prunes the elements of the list by using the Rayleigh criterion, according to which two constituents of frequencies $$f_1$$ and $$f_2$$ cannot be resolved unless the time series spans a time interval of at least $$rc/(f_1-f_2)$$. Finally, tidem looks in the remaining constituent list to check that the application of the Rayleigh criterion has not removed any of the constituents specified directly in the constituents argument. If any are found to have been removed, then they are added back. This last step was added on 2017-12-27, to make tidem behave the same way as the Foreman (1978) code, as illustrated in his Appendices 7.2 and 7.3. (As an aside, his Appendix 7.3 has some errors, e.g. the frequency for the 2SK5 constituent is listed there (p58) as 0.20844743, but it is listed as 0.2084474129 in his Appendix 7.1 (p41). For this reason, the frequency comparison is relaxed to a tol value of 1e-7 in a portion of the oce test suite (see tests/testthat/test_tidem.R in the source). A specific example may be of help in understanding the removal of unresolvable constituents. For example, the data(sealevel) dataset is of length 6718 hours, and this is too short to resolve the full list of constituents, with the conventional (and, really, necessary) limit of rc=1. From Table 1 of Foreman (1978), this timeseries is too short to resolve the SA constituent, so that SA will not be in the resultant. Similarly, Table 2 of Foreman (1978) dictates the removal of PI1, S1 and PSI1 from the list. And, finally, Table 3 of Foreman (1978) dictates the removal of H1, H2, T2 and R2, and since that document suggests that GAM2 be subsumed into H1, then if H1 is already being deleted, then GAM2 will also be deleted. A summary of constituents may be found with: data(tidedata) print(tidedata$const)

## Bugs

1. This function is not fully developed yet, and both the form of the call and the results of the calculation may change.

2. The reported p value may make no sense at all, and it might be removed in a future version of this function. Perhaps a significance level should be presented, as in the software developed by both Foreman and Pawlowicz.

## Constituent Naming Convention

tidem uses constituent names that follow the convention set by Foreman (1978). This convention is slightly different from that used in the T-TIDE package of Pawlowicz et al. (2002), with Foreman's UPS1 and M8 becoming UPSI and MS in T-TIDE. To permit the use of either notation, tidem() uses tidemConstituentNameFix() to convert from T-TIDE names to the Foreman names, issuing warnings when doing so.

## Agreement with T_TIDE results

The tidem amplitude and phase results, obtained with

tidem(sealevelTuktoyaktuk, constituents=c("standard", "M10"),
infer=list(name=c("P1", "K2"),
from=c("K1", "S2"),
amp=c(0.33093, 0.27215),
phase=c(-7.07, -22.40))),


are identical the T_TIDE values listed in Table 1 of Pawlowicz et al. (2002), after rounding amplitude and phase to 4 and 2 digits past the decimal place, to match the format of the table.

## References

Foreman, M. G. G., 1978. Manual for Tidal Currents Analysis and Prediction. Pacific Marine Science Report. British Columbia, Canada: Institute of Ocean Sciences, Patricia Bay.

Foreman, M. G. G., Neufeld, E. T., 1991. Harmonic tidal analyses of long time series. International Hydrographic Review, 68 (1), 95-108.

Leffler, K. E. and D. A. Jay, 2009. Enhancing tidal harmonic analysis: Robust (hybrid) solutions. Continental Shelf Research, 29(1):78-88.

Pawlowicz, Rich, Bob Beardsley, and Steve Lentz, 2002. Classical tidal harmonic analysis including error estimates in MATLAB using T_TIDE. Computers and Geosciences, 28, 929-937.

Other things related to tides: [[,tidem-method, [[<-,tidem-method, as.tidem(), plot,tidem-method, predict.tidem(), summary,tidem-method, tidedata, tidem-class, tidemAstron(), tidemVuf(), webtide()

## Examples

library(oce)
# The demonstration time series from Foreman (1978),
# also used in T_TIDE (Pawlowicz, 2002).
data(sealevelTuktoyaktuk)
tide <- tidem(sealevelTuktoyaktuk)#> Note: the tidal record is too short to fit for constituents:  SA SSA MSM MF SIG1 RHO1 TAU1 BET1 CHI1 PI1 P1 S1 PSI1 PHI1 THE1 SO1 OQ2 2N2 NU2 GAM2 H1 H2 MKS2 LDA2 T2 R2 K2 MSN2 SO3 MK4 SK4 2MK6 MSK6 summary(tide)#> tidem summary
#> -------------
#>
#> Call:
#> tidem(t = sealevelTuktoyaktuk)
#> RMS misfit to data:  0.7808454
#>
#> Fitted Model:
#>         Freq Amplitude  Phase       p
#> Z0   0.00000   1.98062   0.00 < 2e-16 ***
#> MM   0.00151   0.21213 263.34  0.0051 **
#> MSF  0.00282   0.15606 133.80  0.0062 **
#> ALP1 0.03440   0.01523 334.96  0.7368
#> 2Q1  0.03571   0.02458  82.69  0.6516
#> Q1   0.03722   0.01579  65.74  0.7541
#> O1   0.03873   0.07641  74.23  0.1262
#> NO1  0.04027   0.02903 238.14  0.3716
#> K1   0.04178   0.13474  81.09  0.0262 *
#> J1   0.04329   0.02530   7.32  0.5977
#> OO1  0.04483   0.05310 235.75  0.2729
#> UPS1 0.04634   0.02980  91.73  0.6272
#> EPS2 0.07618   0.02115 184.60  0.6769
#> MU2  0.07769   0.04189  83.23  0.3727
#> N2   0.07900   0.08377  44.52  0.0723 .
#> M2   0.08051   0.49041  77.70  0.3465
#> L2   0.08202   0.02132  35.21  0.7301
#> S2   0.08333   0.22024 137.48 3.1e-07 ***
#> ETA2 0.08507   0.00713 246.04  0.8902
#> MO3  0.11924   0.01484 234.97  0.7426
#> M3   0.12077   0.01226 261.57  0.8020
#> MK3  0.12229   0.00492 331.60  0.9172
#> SK3  0.12511   0.00234 237.67  0.9680
#> MN4  0.15951   0.00917 256.47  0.8475
#> M4   0.16102   0.01257 291.79  0.7544
#> SN4  0.16233   0.00830 270.86  0.8659
#> MS4  0.16384   0.00103 339.36  0.9842
#> S4   0.16667   0.00468 299.56  0.9135
#> 2MK5 0.20280   0.00127 310.16  0.9793
#> 2SK5 0.20845   0.00455 104.00  0.9172
#> 2MN6 0.24002   0.00353 271.22  0.9371
#> M6   0.24153   0.00173 158.87  0.9681
#> 2MS6 0.24436   0.00564 306.12  0.8938
#> 2SM6 0.24718   0.00227 298.91  0.9555
#> 3MK7 0.28331   0.00857 212.25  0.8508
#> M8   0.32205   0.00304  42.38  0.9497
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#> * Processing Log
#>
#>     - 2020-07-21 16:53:09 UTC: create 'tidem' object
#>     - 2020-07-21 16:53:09 UTC: tidem(t = sealevelTuktoyaktuk)
# AIC analysis
extractAIC(tide[["model"]])#> [1]   71.0000 -606.0823
# Fake data at M2
t <- seq(0, 10*86400, 3600)
eta <- sin(0.080511401 * t * 2 * pi / 3600)
sl <- as.sealevel(eta)
m <- tidem(sl)#> Note: the tidal record is too short to fit for constituents:  SA SSA MSM MM MSF MF ALP1 2Q1 SIG1 Q1 RHO1 O1 TAU1 BET1 NO1 CHI1 PI1 P1 S1 PSI1 PHI1 THE1 J1 SO1 OO1 UPS1 OQ2 EPS2 2N2 MU2 N2 NU2 GAM2 H1 H2 MKS2 LDA2 L2 T2 S2 R2 K2 MSN2 ETA2 MO3 SO3 MK3 SK3 MN4 SN4 MS4 MK4 S4 SK4 2MN6 2MS6 2MK6 2SM6 MSK6 summary(m)#> tidem summary
#> -------------
#>
#> Call:
#> tidem(t = sl)
#> RMS misfit to data:  9.24624e-08
#>
#> Fitted Model:
#>          Freq Amplitude  Phase      p
#> Z0   0.00e+00  9.69e-10   0.00   0.88
#> K1   4.18e-02  3.85e-09  42.50   0.77
#> M2   8.05e-02  1.00e+00 266.40 <2e-16 ***
#> M3   1.21e-01  4.55e-09 113.49   0.72
#> M4   1.61e-01  1.88e-09 179.90   0.92
#> 2MK5 2.03e-01  1.44e-09 175.25   0.93
#> 2SK5 2.08e-01  2.65e-09 197.77   0.85
#> M6   2.42e-01  1.83e-09 200.43   0.89
#> 3MK7 2.83e-01  1.74e-09 195.70   0.90
#> M8   3.22e-01  1.67e-09   0.53   0.92
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#> * Processing Log
#>
#>     - 2020-07-21 16:53:09 UTC: create 'tidem' object
#>     - 2020-07-21 16:53:09 UTC: tidem(t = sl)