For example, cognitive computers — using sensor measurements of air and water temperature, ocean tides, wind patterns and atmospheric pressure — could make more timely and accurate predictions of tsunamis and hurricanes, he said.
These include the regularity of the ocean tides, the perihelion of Mercury's orbit, the photoelectric effect, that the universe is expanding, and so on.
Earth tides are similar to ocean tides.
He knew about cows, bulls, cars and ocean tides.
In addition to flowing stream water, ocean tides were used to drive waterwheels.
"The holy grail is to harness the ocean tides," Mr. Corren said.
The ocean tides can, without warning, swallow the towels of a heedless beachgoer.
Egbert, G. D. & Erofeeva, S. Y. Efficient inverse modeling of barotropic ocean tides.
The Earth has a small tidal bulge due to the sun, which causes solar ocean tides.
But the moon's field of gravitation is powerful enough to cause ocean tides, atmospheric tides, & even earth tides.
The intermittency varies widely, however, and the phenomenon is neither periodic nor predictable in the sense that ocean tides are.
