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CHAPTER 9 Tides

CHAPTER 9 Tides. Overview. Rhythmic rise and fall of sea level Very long and regular shallow-water waves Caused by gravitational attraction of Sun, Moon, and Earth. Tide-generating forces. Barycenter between Moon and Earth Mutual orbit due to gravity and motion. Fig. 9.1.

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CHAPTER 9 Tides

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  1. CHAPTER 9Tides

  2. Overview • Rhythmic rise and fall of sea level • Very long and regular shallow-water waves • Caused by gravitational attraction of Sun, Moon, and Earth

  3. Tide-generating forces • Barycenter between Moon and Earth • Mutual orbit due to gravity and motion Fig. 9.1

  4. Gravitational forces • Every particle attracts every other particle • Gravitational force proportional to product of masses • Inversely proportional to square of separation distance Fig. 9.2

  5. Centripetal force • Center-seeking force • Tethers Earth and Moon to each other Fig. 9.3

  6. Tide-producing forces • Resultant forces = differences between centripetal and gravitational forces • Tide-generating forces are horizontal components Fig. 9.4

  7. Tidal bulges (lunar) • Small horizontal forces push seawater into two bulges • Opposite sides of Earth • One bulge faces Moon • Other bulge opposite side Earth Fig. 9.6

  8. Tidal bulges (lunar) • Moon closer to Earth so lunar tide-producing force greater than that of Sun • Ideal Earth covered by ocean • Two tidal bulges • Two high tides, 12 hours apart • High tide, flood tide, seawater moves on shore • Low tide, ebb tide, seawater moves offshore

  9. Lunar Day • Moon orbits Earth • 24 hours 50 minutes for observer to see subsequent Moons directly overhead • High tides are 12 hours and 25 minutes apart Fig. 9.7

  10. Tidal bulges (solar) • Similar to lunar bulges but much smaller • Moon closer to Earth • New/full moon – tidal range greatest – spring tide • Quarter moons – tidal range least – neap tide • Time between spring tides about two weeks

  11. Earth-Moon-Sun positions and spring and neap tides Fig. 9.9

  12. Other complicating factors: declination • Angular distance Moon or Sun above or below Earth’s equator • Sun to Earth: 23.5o N or S of equator • Moon to Earth: 28.5o N or S of equator • Shifts lunar and solar bulges from equator • Unequal tides Fig. 9.11

  13. Declination and tides • Unequal tides (unequal tidal ranges) Fig. 9.13

  14. Other complicating factors: elliptical orbits • Tidal range greatest at perihelion (January) and perigee • Tidal range least at aphelion (July) and apogee • Perigee and apogee cycle 27.5 days Fig. 9.12

  15. Idealized tide prediction • Two high tides/two low tides per lunar day • Six lunar hours between high and low tides

  16. Real tides • Earth not covered completely by ocean • Continents and friction with seafloor modify tidal bulges • Tides are shallow water waves with speed determined by depth of water • Tidal bulges cannot form (too slow) • Tidal cells rotate around amphidromic point

  17. Tidal cells in world ocean • Cotidal lines • Tide wave rotates once in 12 hours • Counterclockwise in Northern Hemisphere

  18. Fig. 9.14

  19. Tidal patterns • Diurnal • One high tide/one low tide per day • Semidiurnal • Two high tides/two low tides per day • Tidal range about same • Mixed • Two high tides/two low tides per day • Tidal range different • Most common

  20. Tides in coastal waters • Standing waves • Tide waves reflected by coast • Amplification of tidal range • Example, Bay of Fundy maximum tidal range 17 m (56 ft)

  21. Tides in coastal waters • Tidal bore in low-gradient rivers Fig. 9A

  22. Coastal tidal currents • Reversing current • Flood current • Ebb current • High velocity flow in restricted channels Fig. 9.18

  23. Coastal tidal currents • Whirlpool • Rapidly spinning seawater • Restricted channel connecting two basins with different tidal cycles Fig. 9.19

  24. Tides and marine life • Tide pools and life • Grunion spawning Fig. 9C

  25. Tide-generated power • Renewable resource • Does not produce power on demand • Possible harmful environmental effects

  26. End of CHAPTER 9 Tides Fig. 9.21

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