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TIDE TABLES Tide Tables is a four-volume set of books. Each volume contains tidal information on a specific geographical area of the world. Tide Tables is broken up geographically as follows: Volume 1Europe and West Coast of Africa, including the Mediter-ranean Sea Volume 2East Coast of North and South America, including Greenland Volume 3West Coast of North and South America, including the Hawaiian Islands Volume 4Central and Western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean Within each volume there are seven tables: (1) Daily Tide Predictions, (2) Tidal Differences and Other Constants, (3) Height of Tide at Anytime, (4) Local Mean Time of Sunrise arid Sunset, (5) Reduction of Local Mean Time to Standard Time, (6) Moonrise and Moonset, and (7) Con-version of Feet to Meters. Tide computations are primarily carried out using the first three tables.Daily Tide Predictions Listing the tides for every coastal location would result in volumes of tide tables so vast as to be economically infeasible. Therefore, daily tide predictions are provided for REFERENCE STATIONS only. Reference station tides are then used to calculate tides for other nearby stations known, as subordinate stations.A copy of a page from Daily Tide Predictions is shown in figure 6-6-3. The reference station is listed at the top of the page, along with the year to which the information applies. Three months of tidal information is contained on each page. Under each month, the day, time, and height of high and low water are listed. The heights are listed in meters as well as in feet.Another feature of Table 1 of Tide Tables is the "Typical Tide Curves." The tide curves show the day-to-day variations in the tide for various reference stations along a coast. Figure 6-6-4 is an example of typical tide curves. The days of the month are listed across the top of the page. The range of tide heights for each station listed is on the left. The names of the reference stations are centered above each set of curves. The phase of the Moon is pictured directly under the date on which the phase begins. |
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