Crabs in the grass — tides in Ulverston
I hope you saw my post on the Arnside tidal bore and are well aware of the awesome tides in Morecombe Bay (if not, check it out here!), so here…
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Tidal bore in Arnside
Does that warning sign above (that I showed as a teaser in yesterday’s post on wave watching in and around Arnside) make you as curious as it made me? Usually,…
Watching the tides cause an hydraulic jump in the Irish Sea!
Looking at the picture above, taken in the South Walney Island Nature Reserve on our walk yesterday, what is the first thing you notice? For me, it is not the…
Tides themselves don’t induce (a lot of) mixing, only tides hitting topography do. An experiment.
As you might have noticed, the last couple of days I have been super excited to play with the large tanks at GFI in Bergen. But then there are also…
Let’s guess tides!
Actually, there is no need to guess. If you tilt your head 45 degrees to the left, you are looking at Hamburg the way it would be shown on a…
Learning about tides from art moored in a river
Disclaimer: This post might well be called “fun with tides” similar to Sheldon Cooper’s “fun with flags” — it is super nerdy, but at least I am having fun! There…
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…
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…
Tides in a glass
A very simple experiment to show how waves can travel around an ocean basin. I wrote these instructions for a book project that I was lucky enough to get involved…
Tides in a rotating tank
A first attempt where gravity (due to a tilted axis of rotation) replaces the pull of the moon. (deutscher Text unten) The movie contains both a view from a co-rotating…
Tidal currents at Saltstraumen.
Watching the strongest tidal current in the world. Together with my friend P, I went to see the strongest tidal current in the world more than two years ago. And…
A simple DIY tidal model
Instruction for a very simple DIY tidal model. Today, we built a very simple DIY tidal model in class. It consists of two sets of tidal bulges: One locked in…
