changing with the tides

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reading this book was like reading my own journal. inside of all of us there is a girl made of glass just wanting to be heard, & shelby expresses those all-too-relatable feelings with grace & elegance.” The low-tide zone (4) is only dry at the lowest tide. Nudibranchs, a type of sea slug, live in tide pools in the low-tide zone. Like the sea star, this animal is a carnivore. Nudibranchs eat sponges, barnacles and other nudibranchs. Nudibranchs can also eat sea anemones, because they are immune to its poisonous tentacles. So-called “ red tides” also have nothing to do with actual tides. A red tide is another term for an algal bloom. Algae are microscopicsea creatures. When billions of red algae form, or “bloom,” in the ocean, the waves and tides appear red. When the sun, moon and Earth are all lined up, the sun’s tidal force works with the moon’s tidal force. The combined pull can cause the highest and lowest tides, called spring tides. Spring tides happen whenever there is a new moon or a full moon and have nothing to do with the season of spring. (The term comes from the German word springen, which means “to jump.”) One thing to note, however, is that this is just an explanation of the tidal force—not the actual tides. In real life, the Earth isn't a global ocean, covered in an even layer of water. There are seven continents, and that land gets in the way. The continents prevent the water from perfectly following the moon's pull. That's why in some places, the difference between high and low tide isn't very big, and in other places, the difference is drastic. That explains the first high tide each day, but what about the second high tide?

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This collection handles various themes of mental health including self-harm and suicidal tendencies, anxiety, body image; toxic relationships; romance and yearning; self doubt vs self worth; writing and speaking up for oneself; change, courage, hope, healing and acceptance. Researchers are also using computer models to analyse how changing tides and rising sea levels might affect other types of coastal flooding. A hurricane’s storm surge, for instance, often responds to the changing landscape much as tides do.I feel my body and mind are disconnected, except when my worries wage against me and I stay up all night concerned over past transgressions and burden with future bad decisions that have not happened yet. The way the water moves across the basin is changing, which is having quite a profound effect on the tides,” he says. People can be very active in the low-tide zone. Simple nets can catch fish here, and fishers can collect animals like crabs, mussels, and clams. “The tide is out, our table is set,” is a traditional saying among the Tlingit nation ( tribe), who live along the Pacific Northwest coast in Alaska and Canada. This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine, and is republished under a Creative Commons licence.

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Geographic imaging systems (GIS) rely on tidal calculations. GIS must account for tides when mapping, especially when mapping the ocean floor. Tides affect the report on an area’s depth. If sea level were to rise between 0.5m and 2.1m (1.6-6.9ft) in the delta, then cities in its upstream reaches would see tidal increases between 0.1m and 0.5m (0.3ft and 1.6ft), the scientists found. Add those numbers together and it looks as if water levels could go up between 0.6m and 2.6m (2-8.5ft). In 2018, when Category 1 Hurricane Florence slammed into Wilmington, water levels did indeed reach a record 1.1m (3.6ft) above high tide. That’s why understanding changing tides is crucial to preparing for the future, Talke says. People are going to continue to dredge channels and fill in wetlands and otherwise alter our coastal surroundings. Bit by bit, each modification shifts the world in which we live. In most tidal energy generators, turbines are put in tidal streams (1). A turbine is a machine that takes energy from a flow of fluid. That fluid can be air ( wind) or liquid (water). Because water is more dense than air, tidal energy is more powerful than wind energy. Placing turbines in tidal streams can be difficult, because the machine disrupts the tide it is trying to harness. However, once the turbines are in place, tidal energy is predictable and stable. i just need to remember how it feels to be proud of you, to look in the mirror and be in awe of you.

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Perhaps most importantly, engineers can analyse changing tides to better plan for future sea level rise. One recent study looked at the low-lying Pearl River Delta in southern China, which is home to more than 60 million people. Michela De Dominicis, an oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool, UK, and her colleagues calculated how much tidal ranges would shift for a variety of future scenarios of sea level rise. In 2016, Talke and his colleagues analysed how storm surge might change in the Cape Fear River estuary along with the changing tides. They calculated that dredging of the ship channel has effectively worsened the potential damage posed by a Category 5 hurricane and raised the highest possible water levels in Wilmington by 1.8m (5.9ft).

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On the side of Earth that is directly facing the moon, the moon's gravitational pull is the strongest. The water on that side is pulled strongly in the direction of the moon. Changing tides affect coastal residents in many ways. Someone who wants to sail a tall ship under a short bridge has to wait for just the right tidal conditions while anyone who wants to build a riverfront home in an estuary has to know exactly where the high-tide mark is. Engineers designing a tidal-energy system need to know how much energy they can extract from the water flows. And that’s where the study of changing tides can help people prepare for a changing world.Engineers have known for at least a century that tides can change locally. In 1899, builders predicted that tides would increase in the river Ems upstream from a weir they planned to construct. (After the weir was built, the tides did increase about as much as they were expecting.)