What causes the ocean to swell? It's not just the Moon that has a gravitational pull on spring tides. The Earth’s gravitational force pulls the waves down, thus resulting in high and low tides. A ...

The periods of the three-body system of Sun-Earth-Moon play an important part in tidal dynamics. In this paper, I deal with extreme proxigean spring tides. To produce these rare and unusually high ...

The season’s third and final round of king tides will run their course around Puget Sound this weekend and next as the sun reaches its nearest point to Earth, but flooding is, thankfully, unlikely ...