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Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-733-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-733-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 3
Research article
 | 
27 May 2016
Research article |  | 27 May 2016

Current temporal asymmetry and the role of tides: Nan-Wan Bay vs. the Gulf of Elat

Yosef Ashkenazy, Erick Fredj, Hezi Gildor, Gwo-Ching Gong, and Hung-Jen Lee

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Nan-Wan Bay in Taiwan and the Gulf of Elat in Israel are two different coastal environments, and as such, their currents are expected to have different statistical properties. We find that in spite of these differences, the statistical properties of the surface currents are similar in both basins. Still, surface currents are temporally asymmetric in Nan-Wan but not in Elat; we attribute this difference to the strong tides that exist in Nan-Wan but not in Elat.
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