Investigation of the variation of the Kuroshio and daily mean sea levels

Reply to: Akyilmaz, O., 2010. Discussion of: Sertel, E.; Cigizoglu, H.K., and Sanli, D.U., 2008. Estimating Daily Mean Sea Level Heights Using Artificial Neural Networks. Journal of Coastal Research, 24(3), 727–734; Journal of Coastal Research, 26(6), 1184–1184

“…Furthermore, we do not agree with speculations that one-day-in-the-future predictions have no contribution to coastal research. Daily mean sea level data are routinely used in climate change forecasting, storm surge detection, various oceanographical and meteorological studies, tectonics, extreme sea level event explanations, and tidal analysis (Ansell et al, 2006;Antunes and Taborda, 2009;Cayan et al, 2008;Firing and Merrifield, 2004;Gonzalo and Wyss, 1983;Kumar, 2001;Palumbo and Mazzarella, 1982;Pugh, 2004;Raicich, 2010;Shoji, 1978;Sultan, Ahmad, and Nassar, 1996;Ueda, Ohtake, and Sato, 2001;Zhu et al, 2009). We expect Sertel, Cigizoglu, and Sanli (2008) will spark new research in such popular scientific issues.…”