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Re: Tidal Constants
From: Hal Mueller
Date: 2001 Jan 28, 4:49 PM
From: Hal Mueller
Date: 2001 Jan 28, 4:49 PM
David Flater is the author of XTide, a Unix-based tide prediction program which was also the starting point for tide software now out for several other platforms. Here's an excerpt from his bibliography: >Canonical sources on the NOS tide prediction methodology (including >a mathematical explanation from first principles in SP98): > > Manual of Harmonic Analysis and Prediction of Tides. Special >Publication No. 98, Revised (1940) Edition (reprinted 1958 with >corrections; reprinted again 1994). > United States Government Printing Office, 1994. > > Computer Applications to Tides in the National Ocean Survey. >Supplement to Manual of Harmonic Analysis and Prediction of Tides >(Special Publication No. 98). > National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric >Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, January 1982. > >Those can be ordered from NOAA for $5 or $10, depending on the phase >of the moon. > The complete package is available (including source code) from http://www.flaterco.com/xtide/. H ---- Hal Mueller hal@mobilegeographics.com Mobile Geographics LLC http://www.mobilegeographics.com/ Seattle, Washington (206) 297-9575