Re: More Damn "Moon's synchronism"

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

It seems to me that nobody need apologize if there is ongoing
heat and perhaps light on the tidal topic. It signifies there is 
room for discussion still.

 In this matter, it seems like I can help in a very minor way.
It is in the area of visualizing the water tide.




> At 02:20 PM 3/31/98 -0500, David Bowman wrote:
>
> > Jim Green ... refers to the actual oscillations of the height of the
> > water level on the shoreline of some sea coast 
> > ... This is *not* what I have been talking about. 

At 20:50 3/31/98 -0700, Jim Green wrote:
> And I thought they were talking about the Earth's oceans and fictitious Moon
> oceans. 
....
> Perhaps in the future we all could specify just which tides we are talking
> about. 
> ...
> Jim Green
> JMGreen@sisna.com

Note that David cautions against coastal tide ranges, and Jim offers a
remedy against refering to the oceanic tide as though it had a unitary
range and frequency - when he knows it does not - near coasts.

It would be far better if we chose as a datum the mid-Atlantic or
preferably the mid-Pacific. The tidal range there would be much more
tractable to analytical approaches it seems to me....

Whatcott   Altus