tidal flow
Sea's daily pulse
Tidal flow is the movement of water caused by the rise and fall of tides.
The term describes both the incoming flood tide and outgoing ebb tide as water moves toward and away from shore.
Sailors and coastal engineers must account for tidal flow when navigating channels or designing structures: The tidal flow through the inlet reaches six knots at peak.
- estuaryTidal mixing zone
- intertidal zoneShore covered and uncovered daily
- high water markGreatest recorded extent
- salt marshCoastal wetland with halophytes
- lunar cycleMoon's orbital period
brackish water · fluid dynamics · sedimentation · Coriolis effect · pressure gradient · mangrove forest · moon · lagoon · mudflat · neap · harbor · ocean current · undertow · turbine · sea level · coastal · seaweed · surge
- flowsworkflow, backflow, current, flux, circulation
- tidal movementsebb, slack water, slack, diurnal, semidiurnal
- tidal watersintertidal zone, estuary, estuaries
- tidestides, spring tides, ebb tides, lunar tides, king tides
- water currentscurrent, riptide, eddy, eddies, backflow
- water processesevaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, percolation
motion vs. stillness
tidal flowstill water
Water not flowing
stagnant water · standing water · slack water · dead water · dead calm