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It seems to me that nobody need apologize if there is ongoingMoon
heat and perhaps light on the tidal topic. It signifies there is=20
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=20
... This is *not* what I have been talking about.=20
At 20:50 3/31/98 -0700, Jim Green wrote:
And I thought they were talking about the Earth's oceans and fictitious=
oceans.=20...
Perhaps in the future we all could specify just which tides we are talking
about.=20
...
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....
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