Tidal Patterns and Energy Balance in the Gulf of California

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May 1973

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Nature, Volume 243, Issue 5404, pp. 217-221 (1973).

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Roden and Groves1 wrote: ``The oceanographic aspects of the Gulf of California, one of the least known marginal seas of the North Pacific, are both interesting and complex''. Tidal processes certainly justify the statement. With a reported spring range of 10 m as well as currents exceeding 6 knots (ref. 2) the tides in the Gulf of California are among the most spectacular and dangerous in the world. Nevertheless, because of the rarity and inadequacy of observations, no consistent picture could be drawn until recently. Many quantitative studies of this area must thus be regarded as provisional; there is, for example, an eight-fold range in estimates of energy dissipation for the semidiurnal lunar tide, namely, Heiskanen3,4: 2.5×1017 erg s-1 Miller5: 4×1017 erg s-1 Hendershott6: 1 to 2×1017 erg s-1 and my proposed values: 4.35×1016 erg s-1 for M2 alone, 4.65×1016 erg s-1 for all semidiurnal lunar constituents and 4.85×1016 erg s-1 for all lunar constituents.

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