The mystery of “51”, or: Tidal current at Straume Bru
My friend Pierre, who I went to Saltstraumen with in 2012, wrote me a text about a year ago and asked me to remind him to tell me about 51…
Tag: tidal current
Fantastic wave and current watching at Piel Island
We saw Piel Island with a very cool castle ruin across the bay when visiting the South Walney Nature Reserve the other day, and were intrigued by it. Depending on…
Reading ice on a river as tracer for flow fields
For most of my readers it might be pretty obvious what the movement of floating ice says about the flow field “below”, but most “normal” people would probably not even notice that…
Flow separation
On the way to the pool I cross over the Elbe river on this pretty bridge. Which is pretty spectacular, just because the structure itself is so amazing. But what…
Tidal elevations and currents in Fowey, Cornwall
Tides in Cornwall. The other day we talked about a very simplistic models of tides in a glass, and how the high tide and low tide travel as a wave…