King tides are the highest tides of the year, but scientists have a different name for them: perigean spring tides. The name doesn’t refer to the season of the year — along the California coast, the ...
The periods of the three-body system of Sun-Earth-Moon play an important part in tidal dynamics. In this paper, I deal with extreme proxigean spring tides. To produce these rare and unusually high ...
Understanding tide patterns is essential for any angler looking to improve their fishing success. These natural phenom ...
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The WMBF First Alert Weather team gave you the First Alert to Spring Tides this week, which could cause some minor flooding for parts of the Grand Strand. But what makes ...
Recent months have seen Hong Kong grappling with elevated water levels, primarily attributed to the combined effects of the northeast monsoon and spring tides. This ...
What causes the ocean to swell? It's not just the Moon that has a gravitational pull on spring tides. The Earth’s gravitational force pulls the waves down, thus resulting in high and low tides. A ...
This Jan. 21, 2019 photo provided by Rena Olson shows an arial photo of a farmhouse surrounded by floodwaters from an extreme high tide along the Coquille River in southwest Oregon taken as part of ...