In this part we present five figures to show how the model compares

In this part we present five figures to show how the model compares with
observations. Figures one and four show the position of the available data. In
figures 2 and 3 we show time series comparing tidal elevations and tidal
currents, while tidal ellipses (their axes) derived from model and
observations are compared in figure 5.
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USA
32
Currentmeter
100
SF
20
Mexico
0
30
BLA
500
28
100
0
GUY
26
Pacific
20
Ocean
00
24
MZT
CSL
22
−118
−116
−114
−112
−110
−108
−106
−104
Figure 1. The Gulf of California. Contour lines are the bathymetry in meters. SF, BLA,
GUY, CSL, and MZT stand for San Felipe, Bahía de los Ángeles, Guaymas, Cabo San
Lucas, and Mazatlán, respectively, where the sea level is shown in Figure 2. The
currentmeter position corresponds to the results of Figure 3.
San Felipe
cm
200
0
−200
Bahia de los Angeles
cm
200
0
−200
Guaymas
cm
200
0
−200
Cabo San Lucas
cm
200
0
−200
700
720
740
760
780
800
820
hrs starting/January/2000
840
860
880
900
Figure 2. Surface elevation in places indicated in Figure 1. Dotted and solid lines are the
elevations predicted from the observations and the model, respectively.
29.4oN −113.15oW 110 m, solid model, dotted data
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(a) u component
40
cm s−1
20
0
−20
−40
−60
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
200
250
300
hrs starting 20/July/1990
350
400
450
60
(b) v component
40
cm s−1
20
0
−20
−40
−60
0
50
100
150
Figure 3. (a) u and (b) v components of velocity in the northern Gulf of California from
the model (solid) and the observations (dotted). See figure 1 for the position of the
currentmeter in the gulf.
Figure 4. (a) The Gulf of California. The upper and lower rectangles are enlarged in (b)
and (c) to show the position of the current meter stations. Stations that are too close
together for their position to be shown individually are grouped by letters. In (b) AGI and
TI stand for Angel de la Guarda and Tiburon islands, respectively.
Figure 5. Magnitude of the semimajor axis (cm s-1) for the different tidal constituents.
Data and model are shown with ‘+’ and ‘.’, respectively. The horizontal axis labels the
position of the different time series along the gulf; the vertical lines separate, from left to
right, the northern, island, and southern regions.