RT journal article
T1 Relation between daily variations in sea level and meteorological forcing in  Sancti Petri Channel (SW Spain)
T2 Respuesta de las variaciones del nivel medio diario del mar en el Caño de Sancti Petri (Cádiz, España)
A1 Aboitiz Echeverría, Alazne
A1 Tejedor Álvarez, María Begoña
A1 Muñoz Pérez, Juan José
A1 Abarca, Juan Manuel
A2 Física Aplicada
K1 inverted barometer effect
K1 IBE
K1 shallow waters
K1 long period
K1 sea level oscillations
AB Sea level series were recorded from October 2006 to January 2007 at two different sites in a shallow-water estuary of SW Spain. Results showed a very significant temporal variability in daily sea level. Moreover, 85% of the variance was explained by atmospheric pressure variability, obtaining a relation between sea level and atmospheric pressure of around –2 cm hPa–1. A more detailed study showed the existence of two different types of oscillations in daily sea level: the first, with periods of 10 days, was related to the inverted barometer (IB) effect associated with synoptic-scale atmospheric pressure oscillations (IB factor of around 1.4 ± 0.1 cm hPa–1), and the second, with periods of more than 10 days, was related to pressure changes in the planetaryscale atmospheric waves. Even though the high barometric behaviour of the 10-day period was partially related to the local winds, the shallowness of the study area invalidated the assumption of a static IB effect (–1 cm hPa–1). Rather, it was the dynamic IB effect that explained the displacement of the IB factor relative to the static assumption.
PB Univ Autonoma Baja California
SN 0185 -3880
YR 2008
FD 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/15290
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/15290
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026