Regional realtime ocean tide simulation for the South China Sea

The work being progressed to understand the tidal propagation for the South Asian Seas covering the whole South China Sea is described using high resolution tidal models forced by the equilibrium tide and co-oscillating tide at the straits. The tidal harmonics for TOPEX/Poseidon altimetry and at coastal and islands stations are used to give a new set of empirical co-tidal charts for principal constituents and can used to improve the hydrodynamic tidal models. Some of results delivering tidal predictions over the whole area are presented and discussed for distribution of tides in the South China Sea. Also some of strategy to make real-time barotropic forecast are discussed.