BUFFALO, N.Y. — Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 64: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM ICS2011 (2011), pp. 1614-1618 (5 pages) A 3D baroclinic model (Mohid) was used to perform ...

Having been on the West Coast long enough to gain some perspective, Sarah Versprille has an interesting take on the Pacific Northwest and its gorgeous coastline. The singer of Portland, Oregon–based ...

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In October 1943, the oceanographer Arthur Doodson, head of the Liverpool Tidal Institute, got a letter from his friend Commander Ian Farquharson. For months, Doodson and the machine he’d perfected had ...

There are multiple examples of fractal patterns in nature, from peacock feathers, snowflakes, and leaves, to cloud formations and coastlines. A group of graduate students have spotted similar fractal ...

June 20 (UPI) --New research has revealed how circadian and tidal clocks interact to govern the behavior of some animals -- like the crustacean species Scyphax ornatus, a sand-burrowing isopod native ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Feb., 1985), pp. 161-174 (14 pages) Study of seed banks, field seedling emergence, and survival of macrophytes in four zones (steep bank-SB; gentle bank-GB; ...