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    Tidal range (category Tides)
    range is the difference in height between high tide and low tide. Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by gravitational forces exerted by...
    7 KB (754 words) - 02:51, 5 July 2024
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    datums. Lowest astronomical tide (LAT) is defined as the lowest tide level which can be predicted to occur under average meteorological conditions and...
    10 KB (1,156 words) - 00:08, 23 July 2024
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    Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent...
    109 KB (13,080 words) - 03:58, 17 July 2024
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    intertidal zone or foreshore is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide; in other words, it is the part of the littoral zone...
    15 KB (1,752 words) - 04:46, 25 June 2024
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    between high lunar tides fluctuates between 12 and 13 hours. A tide clock is divided into two roughly 6 hour tidal periods that show the average length...
    10 KB (1,421 words) - 18:58, 19 June 2024
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    straightforward mean sea-level standard is instead a long-term average of tide gauge readings at a particular reference location. Sea levels can be affected by...
    23 KB (4,460 words) - 03:03, 16 July 2024
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    all-time high, an annual high (highest level to which water rose that year) or the high point for some other division of time. Knowledge of the high water...
    9 KB (1,065 words) - 11:51, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tide table
    Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and levels of high and low tides, usually for a particular...
    6 KB (585 words) - 07:54, 21 April 2024
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    before acceleration in sea level rise should be concluded. Based on tide gauge data, the rate of global average sea level rise during the 20th century...
    27 KB (3,310 words) - 08:13, 10 June 2024
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    ˈalta] ; lit. 'high water') is an exceptional tide peak that occurs periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea. The term is applied to such tides in the Italian...
    29 KB (3,342 words) - 14:47, 1 January 2024
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    Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rise was 15–25 cm (6–10 in), with an increase of 2.3 mm (0.091 in) per year since the 1970s.: 1216  This...
    213 KB (22,508 words) - 16:22, 29 July 2024
  • Tidal prism (category Tides)
    an estuary or inlet between mean high tide and mean low tide, or the volume of water leaving an estuary at ebb tide. The inter-tidal prism volume can...
    6 KB (888 words) - 21:07, 23 August 2023
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    The pink tide (Spanish: marea rosa; Portuguese: onda rosa; French: marée rose), or the turn to the left (Spanish: giro a la izquierda; Portuguese: virada...
    93 KB (8,320 words) - 23:37, 3 August 2024
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    Tidal flooding (category Tides)
    a one-foot increase over the average high tide can cause widespread flooding. The 2015 and 2016 king tide event levels reached about 4 feet (1.2 m) MLLW...
    14 KB (1,423 words) - 19:50, 28 October 2023
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    water twice a day. It is possible to view the formations from ground level at low tide. The formations consist of red-brown sedimentary conglomerate, sandstone...
    5 KB (560 words) - 16:56, 7 June 2024
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    surface or zero-level reference. Commonly adopted criteria for a vertical datum include the following approaches: Tides, based on sea level when specific...
    10 KB (1,459 words) - 03:47, 10 July 2024
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    Jackson Holliday (category Norfolk Tides players)
    largest signing bonus ever for a high school player. Holliday made his professional debut on August 11 with the Rookie-level Florida Complex League Orioles...
    19 KB (1,595 words) - 11:58, 6 August 2024
  • 1 N/m2). On average, a column of air with a cross-sectional area of 1 square centimetre (cm2), measured from the mean (average) sea level to the top of...
    23 KB (2,404 words) - 01:46, 19 July 2024
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    exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea. It has been operational since 1982. When needed, it is closed (raised) during high tide; at...
    32 KB (3,106 words) - 09:31, 3 August 2024
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    Amphidromic point (category Tides)
    no vertical change in sea level from tidal action; that is, there is little or no difference between high tide and low tide at these locations. There...
    20 KB (2,449 words) - 19:21, 28 July 2024
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