CONTENTS-Continued 



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Vm APPLICATION OF THE TIDE PROBABILITY TABLES 74 



Example Problems 76 



IX SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS 85 



Recommendations for Revision of the Probability Tables 85 



LITERATURE CITED 87 



APPENDIX 



A GLOSSARY OF SELECTED TECHNICAL TERMS 93 



B CHARACTERISTICS OF ASTRONOMICAL TIDES AT REFERENCE 



TIDE STATIONS 114 



C TIDAL RANGES FOR REFERENCE AND SECONDARY STATIONS . . 337 



TABLES 



1 Astronomical periods affecting the tides 25 



2 Tidal constituents commonly used by the National Ocean Survey (NOS) .... 34 



3 Tide data used in establishing the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) 



of 1929 41 



4 Datums for reference tide stations 47 



5 Trends and variabUity of yearly MSL through 1972 54 



6 Comparative tide stations 62 



7 Computed datums, ranges, and standard deviations referred to MSL 65 



8 Distribution functions for monthly high and low waters at New York, 



(The Battery), New York 71 



9 Distribution functions for higher high, high, hourly, low, and lower low water 



at Atlantic City, New Jersey 72 



10 Part of cumulative distribution table for Sandy Hook, New Jersey 76 



