44 years hindcast of sea level in the Atlantic Coast of Europe

The sea level of Northeast Atlantic Ocean is calculated for the period between 1958 and 2001 using a state-of-the-art barotropic model with a grid size of 10'x15' (long x lat). The model includes astronomic effects, considering seven components of the tide, and the meteorological effects of wind and atmospheric pressure, allowing obtaining the astronomic tide, the atmospheric residuals and the non-linear addition of both components of sea level. The results were compared with tide records of 10 tide gauges (at Madeira, Azores and Canary Islands, Iberian France and England). A good agreement between the records and the results of the model was Peninsula, obtained for the atmospheric residuals and the sea level. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.