Beyond the moon : a conversational common sense guide to understanding the tides / James Greig McCully.
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World Scientific,
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Table of Contents:
- The tides in history. The challenge of understanding the tides on earth
- One moon--two tides
- The lunar orbit
- The solar influences and solar-lunar interaction
- Celestial harmonics
- The Coriolis force and oceanic amphidromes. Coastal Kelvin waves. Tidal currents. Sea level
- The Seiche effect and basins of oscillation. Tidal intermixing
- Coastal geography and near shore topography, resonant co-oscillation, sustained forcing
- Shallow estuaries and tidal bores
- Computation of the tide-tables and chaos theory
- The weather and the tides. Atmospheric tides
- The tides and saltwater fishing
- The constituents of the tides on earth. Synopsis of tidal influences
- Epilogue.