Chapter 9 Tides on the North-West European Continental Shelf

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the tidal motion of seas north–west European continental shelf, periodic ebb, and flow water in indirect response to gravitational attraction sun moon. It describes observational techniques for measuring both elevations currents tide, methods predicting elevation at individual stations. The presents together observations into a coherent picture tide propagation on shelf. For each main sea areas, early qualitative explanations are outlined results more modern quantitative modeling techniques, based computer simulation, described. highly asymmetric experienced shallow waters estuaries rivers is presented. considers these important where ports towns situated regime may be modified by coastal engineering.