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 ...

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 ...

Eye in the sky: data from the Jason-3 satellite was used in the study. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Third-degree tides – tiny sea-level fluctuations once known only locally from measurements made by ...

University of Leicester researchers have revealed that coastal animals have their own biological tidal timer, which is separate from their 24-hour body clock. Experts from the University's Department ...

Tsunami Awareness Day is observed worldwide on November 5 each year. The day aims to educate people about the dangers of tsunamis and how to stay safe. It highlights the importance of early warning ...

The ebb and flow of the tides is such a regular occurrence that almanacs predict them years in advance for coastal cities and beaches. But those predictions would have been pretty far off thousands of ...