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Beyond the Moon: A Conversational, Common Sense Guide to Understanding the Tides
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Название: Beyond the Moon: A Conversational, Common Sense Guide to Understanding the Tides Автор: James Greig Mccully Год: 2006 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Company ISBN: 9812566449 Формат: PDF Размер: 14 Mb Страниц: 304 Язык: Английский Finally,
someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the
tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough
for their professors. Step by step, by analogy and illustration, Beyond
the Moon describes how the cyclical motion of the near solar system is
impressed upon the earth s oceans, and how the hydraulics over the
continental shelf and the geography of the coastline orchestrate this
rhythm into the bewildering variety of tide patterns seen around the
globe. This volume demystifies the complexity of the tides by
systematically examining its many constituents and demonstrates that:
Nature is, at once, awesome in complexity and beautiful in simplicity. Contents:
The Tides in History. The Challenge of Understanding the Tides on
Earth; The Lunar Orbit; Solar Influences and Solar Lunar Interaction.
Gravitation and Tractal Forces; 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 and
Sustained Forcing; Shallow Estuaries and Tidal Pumping. Tidal Bores;
The Computation of the Tide-Tables. Chaos Theory; The Weather and the
Tides. Atmospheric Tides; Tidal Influence on Marine Biology. The Tides
and Saltwater Fishing. Practical Tide-Table Information for Coastal
Boaters; The Constituents of the Tides on Earth. Synopsis of Tidal
Influences; Epilogue; Definitions.
