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The Revolution in Tidal Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2006

Paul Hughes
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Abstract

Exact tidal study extends back to a fourteenth century record containing sexagesimal times. Earlier commentators have taken these times to be high water. This study shows they are for the later moment of when the flood ends; and, that eighteenth and nineteenth century elevation measurements formed a completely different way of considering the tide, leading directly to reliable predictions. The result shows the Thames tide to have been more consistent than previously stated; and consequently the actual change more accelerated. Therefore tidal current predictions are shown to have a longer history than have water surface elevation levels.

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Tidal predictionsHistory

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 445 - 459
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 2006

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