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• diurnal tide — a tide with one high water and one low water in a tidal day (24.84 hours) …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Tide — This article is about tides in the Earth s oceans. For other uses, see Tide (disambiguation). Tidal redirects here. For other uses, see Tidal (disambiguation). High Tide redirects here. For other uses, see High Tide (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

• tide — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, time, from Old English tīd; akin to Old High German zīt time and perhaps to Greek daiesthai to divide Date: before 12th century 1. a. obsolete a space of time ; period b. a fit or opportune time ; opportun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• semidiurnal tide — a tide with two high and two low waters in a tidal day with comparatively little diurnal tide inequality. The commonest type of tide …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Atmospheric tide — Atmospheric tides are global scale periodic oscillations of the atmosphere. In many ways they are analogous to ocean tides. Atmospheric tides can be excited by:*The regular day/night cycle in the insolation of the atmosphere *The gravitational… …   Wikipedia

• Earth tide — is the sub meter motion of the Earth of about 12 hours or longer caused by Moon and Sun gravitation, also called body tide which is the largest contribution globally. The largest body tide contribution is from the semidiurnal constituents, but… …   Wikipedia

• Earth tide — ▪ geophysics       deformation of the solid Earth as it rotates within the gravitational fields of the Sun and Moon. Earth tides are similar to ocean tides. The Earth deforms because it has a certain degree of elasticity; were it perfectly rigid …   Universalium

• amixed tide — a type of tide intermediate to those predominantly semidiurnal and diurnal …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• semi-diurnal — having a period or cycle of approximately one half of a tidal day (12.4 hours). See semidiurnal tide …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• atmospheric tide — noun : one of the tidal movements of the atmosphere resembling those of the ocean but produced mainly by diurnal temperature changes * * * Meteorol. a movement of atmospheric masses caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon and… …   Useful english dictionary

• Richard Lindzen — Richard S. Lindzen Born 8 February 1940 (1940 02 08) (age 71) Webster, Massachusetts Fields Atmospheric physics …   Wikipedia