American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy (1914)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, Logan, George Wood, 1868-1915, United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Equipment · Washington, Govt. Print. Off · leaf 231
y heavy rain squalls and arapid increase in force. The generaldistribution of pressure and the surrounding winds are ^ shown in figure 76. The changes in wind and pressure ensuemuch more rapidly in the case of a westward-bound vessel than in that of one eastward bound, the rate at which the… … FIG. 76. CHAPTER XX. TIDES, 490. DEFINITIONS.—Tidal phenomena present themselves to the observerunder two aspects—as alternate elevations and depressions of the sea, and as recurrent inflows and outflows of streams. The word tide, in common and general usage,is made to refer without distinction to…
Navigation · Nautical astronomy
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