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Subject: Re: Tidal Constants
From: Hal Mueller (hal@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 18:48:57 EST
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):
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> 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.
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> 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@XXX.XXX Mobile Geographics LLC http://www.mobilegeographics.com/ Seattle, Washington (206) 297-9575
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