Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-599-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-599-2017
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20 Jul 2017
Research article | Highlight paper |  | 20 Jul 2017

The double high tide at Port Ellen: Doodson's criterion revisited

Hannah A. M. Byrne, J. A. Mattias Green, and David G. Bowers

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Sea-level data - Port Ellen British Oceanographic Data Centre https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/hosted_data_systems/sea_level/uk_tide_gauge_network/processed/

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Some places experience double high tides, where the tide starts to ebb for a short while, only to briefly flood again before finally receding. The result is a very long high tide with weak currents, and is important for navigational purposes. The existing theory for when and where double high tides occur does not always capture them, and it can only be applied to double highs occurring on a twice-daily tide. Here, the criterion has been generalized to capture all double high or low tides.