Tsunami, Seiches, and Tides

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Tsunami, Seiches, and Tides
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Storm Surge

• Storm tide

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• Seiches
• Standing wave
• Node

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Tsunami

• Tsunami
• Seismic sea wave

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Tsunami

• Causes or origin
• Speed

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Tide generating forces

• Gravitational
• Centrifugal

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Equilibrium and dynamic theory of tides

• Equilibrium theory
• Dynamic theory

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Moon and Tractive Forces

• High Tide
• Low Tide
• Lunar Tide

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sun

• Solar Tides

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Sun and Moon and Earth

• Spring tide
• Neap tide
• Apogee
• Perigee
• Perihelion
• aphelion

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Tidal Patterns

• Semidiurnal Tides
• Diurnal Tides
• Mixed Tides

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Amphidromic point

• Node
• Tidal datum

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Tides in Confined Basins

• Tidal Range
• Tidal bore
• Tidal wave

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Tidal Currents

• Flood Current
• Ebb Current
• Slack Water

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• Tidal Friction
• Predicting Tides
• Meteorological tides
• Tides and Marine Organisms
• Power from the Tides