Waves and Tides III

Lecture

Topics

• Ocean Tides

Readings

• Hendershott lectures on Tides from WHOI Summer GFD Program 2004.
• Pugh, D.T. Tides, surges, and mean sea-level: a handbook for engineers and scientists. [Wiley, Chichester, 472pp., 1987]. This book is now out of print but a free pdf can be downloaded from HERE.
• A good tutorial on tides from altimetric satellites can be found HERE.
• Remarkably, a useful easy discussion is at WIKIPEDIA.
• Robert Stewart's Textbook: Chapter 17: Sections 17.4-6 (some of this material is very technical, read this AFTER lecture and use it to reinforce)
• Descriptive Physical Oceanography 6th Ed., Section 8.6