MARINE GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, cilt.43, sa.1, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
The study investigates sea-level measurements observed from 12 tide gauge sites over the Indian coastal area during the last two decades. Initially, the rise of sea-level (slope) and acceleration is estimated by fitting the linear and parabolic equations in the recorded data from tide gauge measurements. The estimated results showed the abrupt change of relative sea-level measurements at the distinct site depends upon the tide gauge site locations. To accurately analyse the regional coastal sea level pattern, the tide gauge time series data are decomposed in sine and cosine functions at different frequencies followed by the spectral analysis. Analysis of the results confirmed that the tide gauges peaks do not occur at the fixed period at each tide gauge site, instead they repeat with varying time periods. The spectrum peaks width fluctuate at distinct sites and the general pattern of frequency spectrum does not follow a unique model. Such type of characteristic variation with the time is possibly because of the effective variables, which affects the steadiness of sea-level changes. The study concludes that the experimental results from the Indian coastal region must be included during the comparison of global data sets and other contemporary oceanic models.