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In this study, we confirmed the effectiveness of the HF radar measurements by comparing with the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and explore the possibility of assimilating radar data into a regional coastal ocean model. A regional high-resolution model with resolution of 10 m was first built in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE). However, analysis of the Hovm\u00f6ller diagrams from the model simulations in this study indicated a significant deficiency in representing Near-Inertial Oscillations (NIOs) in the PRE, particularly in the east\u2013west direction, despite including wind fields in the input data, during the week from 3 to 8 August 2022. To overcome the model deficiency, we conducted a set of assimilation experiments and performed sensitivity analyses. The results of sensitivity experiments indicate that the model exhibits a sufficient capacity to replicate NIOs after assimilation, lasting approximately 5\u20136 days. To further analyze the reasons for the decay in the magnitude of the NIOs, data from the three ADCP stations were compared with model results by applying the momentum equation. The assimilated vertical diffusion term outperforms the unassimilated model in representing NIOs. These findings highlight the importance of the vertical diffusion term for simulating NIOs and the data assimilation in improving the model\u2019s representation of physical processes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16173276","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,3]],"date-time":"2024-09-03T12:22:33Z","timestamp":1725366153000},"page":"3276","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Analysis of Nearshore Near-Inertial Oscillations Using Numerical Simulation with Data Assimilation in the Pearl River Estuary of the South China Sea"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Zihao","family":"Jiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China"},{"name":"Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, Key Laboratory of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean System, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 519082, China"}]},{"given":"Chunlei","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Zhuhai Marine Environmental Monitoring Central Station of the State Oceanic Administration, Zhuhai 519000, China"}]},{"given":"Fan","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Zhuhai Marine Environmental Monitoring Central Station of the State Oceanic Administration, Zhuhai 519000, China"}]},{"given":"Jun","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China"},{"name":"Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, Key Laboratory of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean System, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 519082, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"On the influence of the earth\u2019s rotaion on ocean-currents","volume":"2","year":"1905","journal-title":"Ark. 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