Understanding Tides And Their Computations: Maryland Tide Finder

Factors Contributing to Tides

First and foremost, tides are denoted as a generic term. It is the elementary concept mainly used in defining the falling as well as the rising in the overall sea level and the analysis main essentially taken in line with the land. The rising and the falling recording primarily result from the existing gravitational attraction between the sun and the moon. Conversely, there are small instances in which the tides tend to occur in the makeable large lakes, within the parametric solid crust as well as in the atmosphere.  The occurrence of the tides at any moment mainly facilitated with the gravitational forces sun and the moon. This paper thus, focuses on the tides recorded in the Maryland Tide Finder and the overall computations regarding the low, high and the percentage of the visible moon (Fuller, Luan, & Quataert, 2016).

1. What causes the tides, and just how can they be predicted?

The primary factor and the key contributors to the emerging tides are the sun as well as the gravitational pull.  Furthermore, the rising and the falling in the tides also instigated and accelerated through the actions of the centrifugal forces often generated via the rotation of the earth. Moreover, it is important to note that the overall impacts of the tides mainly grounded on the relationships existing between the moon, the earth and the sun at any designated moment. Notably, the moon is depicted to have the greatest influence on the parametric tides since it close to the earth in comparison to the sun. Subsequently, the rotation of the moon result around the makeable earth impacts on the seas by causing it to bulge. The effects often happen to be immense in the situations in which the gravitational pulls tend to be greater. On the other hand, the rotation of the moon on the opposite direction also causes the centrifugal forces induced on the earth surface to result in second portion of bulging across the globe. Furthermore, the high tides mainly manifested along the low waters.  Conversely, the high tides often predicted and manifested twice in every 24hours as well as depicted for at most 50 minutes (Bertone et al. 2016, February).

The high tends gives the reflection on the overall time which the moon tend to last in rotating the earth. Furthermore, the denoted extra 54 minutes gives the reflection on the average alteration times which occur from one day to the other.  Notably, the lunar tides often modified by the existing solar tides and they are accelerated by the forces of gravity in line with the sun.

The data gathered and applied in computing the overall tides and the moon mainly summarized as indicated in the figure below  

Results Mainly Indicated as follows

Date	Average High	Average Low	Average High-Average Low	Moon-% Visible
1	3.55	0.45	3.1	86
2	3.5	0.55	2.95	78
3	3.6	0.6	3	70
4	3.65	0.6	3.05	60
5	3.55	0.65	2.9	49
6	3.65	0.4	3.25	38
7	3.8	0.2	3.6	28
8	3.75	-0.1	3.85	18
9	4.15	-0.1	4.25	10
10	4.3	-0.4	4.7	3
11	4.35	-0.55	4.9	0
12	4.4	-0.6	5	0
13	4.3	-0.55	4.85	2
14	4.2	-0.4	4.6	8

Graph Showing the analysis (Daher et al., 2016, December).  

1. Now that we have the data in the spreadsheet, determine which days (should be 2) have the greatest difference (Column 4 in the spreadsheet) between Average High and Average Low ti!des? What is the % Visible of the Moon for the corresponding days?

Date 13^th and corresponding percentage of visible moon- 2

 Which days (again should be 2) have the least difference (again Column 4) between Average High and Average Low tides?  What is the % Visible for the Moon on these days?   Date 2rd and the corresponding percentage of visible moon 78

1. What is the phase of the Moon for the four occasions?  Using your knowledge of lunar phases, draw a diagram for each of the days illustrating the positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun.  Use the diagram and your knowledge of gravity to explain why there are these differences at these particular times.  

The four phases of the moon mainly illustrated in line with the lunar month and  this is designated at 29.53days. This is the duration which the moon takes to move to the overall next phase. Lunar month makes the overall phases of the moon.

References

Bertone, S., Arnold, D., Jaeggi, A., & Hosseini, A. (2016, February). Bernese Developments in Planetary Geodesy: our Latest Solution of Moon Gravity Field and Tides and an Outlook on Future Projects. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Daher, H., Arbic, B. K., Ansong, J. K., Adcroft, A., Cornuelle, B. D., Lau, H. C. P., … & Müller, M. (2016, December). Tidal energy dissipation over long geological timescales. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.

Fuller, J., Luan, J., & Quataert, E. (2016). Resonance locking as the source of rapid tidal migration in the Jupiter and Saturn moon systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(4), 3867-3879.

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