Secrets of the tide : tide and tidal current analysis and applications, storm surges and sea level trends / John D. Boon.
This postgraduate level text and reference treatise introduces readers to tides, tidal currents, storm-surges and sea level trends in coastal regions. The book is based on tidal waters of Maryland, Virginia, Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic regions known to the author, and also provides international...
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2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; SECRETS OF THE TIDE: Tide and Tidal Current Analysis and Applications, Storm Surges and Sea Level Trends; Copyright; Table of contents; Dedication; Preface; Note to 2007 printing:; 1 Tidewater; 1.1 TIDEWATER GEOGRAPHY; 1.2 EARLY USE OF TIDAL POWER; 1.3 THE INTERTIDAL ZONE; 1.4 TIDAL WETLANDS; 1.5 TIDAL CIRCULATION AND TIDAL MIXING IN ESTUARIES; 1.6 EFFECTS OF EXTREME STRATIFICATION: HYPOXIA AND ANOXIA; 1.7 STORM TIDES; 2 A tug of war over the ocean; 2.1 TIDES AND GRAVITY; 2.2 NEWTON'S LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION; 2.3 TRACTIVE FORCES.
- 2.4 STATIC TIDE CONCEPTS
- THE EQUILIBRIUM TIDE MODEL2.5 DEDUCTIONS FROM THE EQUILIBIUM TIDE MODEL; 2.6 SOLAR TIDES; 2.7 THE SPRING-NEAP CYCLE; 2.8 LONG TERM VARIATIONS IN THE TIDE; 2.9 CALCULATING THE LUNAR TIDE PRODUCING FORCE; 3 Are tides waves?; 3.1 AN ENCOUNTER WITH WIND WAVES; 3.2 A SPECTRUM OF WAVES SUPERPOSED ON THE SEA; 3.3 A LOOK INSIDE THE WAVES; 3.4 TIDES AS LONG WAVES; 3.5 OCEAN TIDES AND KELVIN WAVES; 3.6 PROGRESSIVE WAVES AND STANDING WAVES; 3.7 WAVE DYNAMICS AND WAVE ENERGY; 3.8 KELVIN WAVES IN OCEAN BASINS; 3.9 FROM ROTARY WAVES TO SINE WAVES.
- 4 Harmonic constituents: building blocks of the tide4.1 HARMONIC TIDAL CONSTITUENTS; 4.2 THE HARMONIC MODEL OF THE TIDE; 4.3 TIDAL TYPES AND THE TIDAL FORM NUMBER; 4.4 REFERENCING TIME AND HEIGHT OF TIDE; 4.5 SEASONAL TIDES AND SHALLOW WATER TIDES; 4.6 SIMULATING TIDES WITH A SERIES OF COSINE WAVES; 5 Tidal datums: finding the apparent level of the sea; 5.1 DEFINITIONS AND USE OF A TIDAL DATUM; 5.2 ON THE LEVEL? IT'S A GEODETIC DATUM; 5.3 A TIDAL DATUM BEGINS WITH A TIDE STAFF; 5.4 AND ENDS WITH A TIDAL BENCH MARK; 5.5 TIDAL EPOCHS: WHY 19 YEARS?; 5.6 TIDAL DATUMS IN USE AROUND THE WORLD.
- 5.7 SEA LEVEL TREND AND THE TIDAL DATUM EPOCH5.8 TRANSFERRING TIDAL DATUMS; 5.9 HOW GOOD ARE THE RESULTS?; 6 Tides and currents in a large estuary; 6.1 TIDES INSIDE CHESAPEAKE BAY; 6.2 CO-RANGE and CO-TIDAL CHARTS; 6.3 A SIMPLE SHALLOW-WATER WAVE MODEL; 6.4 TIDAL HEIGHT AND TIDAL CURRENT RELATIONSHIPS; 6.5 ROTARY CURRENTS IN LOWER CHESAPEAKE BAY; 6.6 NON-TIDAL CURRENTS; 6.7 TIDAL AND NON-TIDAL FLUSHING IN ESTUARIES; 7 Analyzing tides and currents; 7.1 WHAT IS HARMONIC ANALYSIS?; 7.2 HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF WATER LEVELS: WORLD TIDES; 7.3 SOME EXAMPLES OF WATER LEVEL ANALYSIS.
- 7.4 HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF WATER CURRENTS: WORLD CURRENTS7.5 SOME EXAMPLES OF WATER CURRENT ANALYSIS; 7.6 WHEN TIDAL CONSTANTS AREN'T; 8 Predicting tides and currents; 8.1 THE US NOS TIDAL PREDICTION FORMULA; 8.2 HARMONIC CONSTANTS WITHOUT EQUILIBRIUM ARGUMENTS; 8.3 TIDAL HEIGHT PREDICTIONS MADE SIMPLE: WORLD TIDES; 8.4 COMPARISON OF WORLD TIDES WITH US NOS TIDE PREDICTIONS; 8.5 TIDAL CURRENT PREDICTIONS MADE SIMPLE: WORLD CURRENTS; 8.6 COMPARISON OF WORLD CURRENTS PREDICTIONS; 8.7 THE OUTLOOK FOR MORE AND BETTER CURRENT DATA; 9 Storm tide and storm surge; 9.1 BEYOND THE ASTRONOMICAL TIDE.