This postgraduate level text and reference treatise introduces readers to tides, tidal currents, storm-surges and sea level trends in coastal regions.

This source book introduces readers to tides, tidal currents, storm surges and sea level trends in coastal regions. It is equally an important work for teachers, researchers, planners and engineers responsible for coastal defences and new infrastructure and waterway modification.
Professor Boon provides informative detail and data, making this text worthwhile for readers who need a wider understanding of this increasingly important topic for coastal zone residents.
For MATLAB-using students, researchers and engineering consultants, simple-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI) programs are introduced and available free-of-charge for downloading. These programs provide the tools for analysing water level or water current observations, derive the major tidal constituents, and show first hand how tide and tidal predictions are made.

Table of contents
Preface
Note to 2007 printing
1. Tidewater
2. A tug of war over the ocean
3. Are tides waves?
4. Harmonic constituents: building blocks of thetide
5. Tidal datums: finding the apparent level ofthe sea
6. Tides and currents in a large estuary
7. Analyzing tides and currents
8. Predicting tides and currents
9. Storm tide and storm surge
10. Computational methods: the matrix revisited
Appendix 1: The least squares digital filter
Appendix 2: Calculation of lunar node factors f and u
Appendix 3: Tide analysis and prediction: World Tides
Appendix 4: Current analysis, prediction: World Currents
Appendix 5: Tidal analysis and tidal prediction programs (command line versions)
Appendix 6: Current analysis and current predictionprograms (command line versions)
References
Glossary

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