AnimprovedprocedureforextractingtheradiationalS2tidefromanalyzedS2ispresentedinthispaper.Themajorimprovementisthatthenonlinearconstituentsareeliminatedfromtheanalyzedprincipalsemidiurnaltidesonthebasisofthe"credoofsmoothness"ofadmittancebeforeusingtheproceduregivenbyZetler.ThesemidiurnalradiationaiS2tidesfor42stationsalongChina’scoastsarecalculatedusingthemethodpresentedinthispaper,and,forcomparison,theresultsfromZetler’smethodarealsogiven.Inaddition,theradiationalS2tidesfor10stationsareanalyzedwiththeresponsemethod.Theresultsshowthatthemeanamplituderatio(radiationaltogravitational)is0.17,themeanphasedifference(radiationalminusgravitational)is119°forChina’scoasts.
