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Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-599-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-599-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
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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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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.
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