Tidal Current Tables, Pacific Coast of North America and Asia

Tidal Current Tables, Pacific Coast of North America and Asia
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105133469648
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Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Tidal Current Tables, Pacific Coast of North America and Asia by :

Contains daily predicted times of slack water and predicted times and velocities of maximum current.

Tidal Current Tables 2004

Tidal Current Tables 2004
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Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 007142637X
ISBN-13 : 9780071426374
Rating : 4/5 (7X Downloads)

Synopsis Tidal Current Tables 2004 by : Noaa

This is a navigational publication that provides the times and heights of tides for thousands of locations.

Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington

Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington
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Publisher : National Academies Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780309255943
ISBN-13 : 0309255945
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington by : National Research Council

Tide gauges show that global sea level has risen about 7 inches during the 20th century, and recent satellite data show that the rate of sea-level rise is accelerating. As Earth warms, sea levels are rising mainly because ocean water expands as it warms; and water from melting glaciers and ice sheets is flowing into the ocean. Sea-level rise poses enormous risks to the valuable infrastructure, development, and wetlands that line much of the 1,600 mile shoreline of California, Oregon, and Washington. As those states seek to incorporate projections of sea-level rise into coastal planning, they asked the National Research Council to make independent projections of sea-level rise along their coasts for the years 2030, 2050, and 2100, taking into account regional factors that affect sea level. Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future explains that sea level along the U.S. west coast is affected by a number of factors. These include: climate patterns such as the El Niño, effects from the melting of modern and ancient ice sheets, and geologic processes, such as plate tectonics. Regional projections for California, Oregon, and Washington show a sharp distinction at Cape Mendocino in northern California. South of that point, sea-level rise is expected to be very close to global projections. However, projections are lower north of Cape Mendocino because the land is being pushed upward as the ocean plate moves under the continental plate along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. However, an earthquake magnitude 8 or larger, which occurs in the region every few hundred to 1,000 years, would cause the land to drop and sea level to suddenly rise.

Tides

Tides
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Publisher : Trinity University Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9781595348067
ISBN-13 : 1595348069
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Tides by : Jonathan White

In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture—the very old and very new. Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion. Photographs, scientific figures, line drawings, and sixteen color photos dramatically illustrate this engaging, expert tour of the tides.