Author unknown, but it says on it: “adapted from the Glossary in ‘Changing Sea Levels: Effects of Tides, Weather and Climate’ by David Pugh, Cambridge University Press, 2004 with permission of the author and publisher”).Īpflod. “An old term for the lag between the time of new or full moon (SYZYGY) and the time of maximum spring tidal range.” (Source found in a Tidal Glossary on line which now seems to have gone. (Source: H Derek Howse Some Early Tidal diagrams 1985 Lisboa: Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical)Īge of the Tide. Where the moon is in its monthly cycle from new to full. This is an opening line from the book ‘Estuaries: Monitoring and Modeling the Physical System”, by Jack Hardisty, 2007. “The term estuary is derived from the Latin word “aestus” meaning tide and refers to a tongue of the sea reaching inland”. Thanks to others, including Rhyddian Jones, for suggestions.Ī very few terms are newly coined, from a project being conducted by Heather Green with support for Owain jones.Īestus. Thanks to Heather Green for Glossary / Lexicon inspirations. The science books on tides, see a list on another page of this blog here, have very many technical terms in them. We will focus on more ‘poetic’ terms, perhaps local, vernacular, obscure and/or historic terms. Here we will add tidal words and phrases that we have come across in our wanderings.
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