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This package is the fully revised version of the FES 2014 currents 
distribution.
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Directory fes2014a_currents/ contains tidal currents derived from 
FES2014a model delivered on the 1/16° grid.
Filenames are wave.nc.
Two tar files are available : eastward_velocity.tar.xz, northward_velocity.tar.xz

34 tidal components are available: 2N2, Eps2, J1, K1, K2, L2, La2, M2, 
M3, M4, M6, M8, Mf, MKS2, Mm, MN4, MS4, MSf, MSqm, Mtm, Mu2, N2, N4, 
Nu2, O1, P1, Q1, R2, S1, S2, S4, Sa, Ssa, T2.


Note that the files distributed are NetCdf4 (the NetCDF libraries must be 
up-to-date to read those data).

sha256sum files are delivered to check the size of the files downloaded:
when running the command "sha256sum filename.tar.xz", you should get same 
values as the ones indicated in .sha256sum  files.

To extract the files you need to do :
tar xvfJ *.tar.xz


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Tide prediction
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To produce FES2014 tidal prediction the dedicated software is available on:
https://bitbucket.org/cnes_aviso/fes

To perform FES2014 currents tide prediction, you need to use the following 
parameter files: fes2014a_u.ini and fes2014a_v.ini

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Further information
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Aviso+ website: http://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/auxiliary-products/global-tide-fes.html

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CONTACT
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aviso@altimetry.fr
