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   What is the difference between a flood and a ebb current?

   • The incoming tide along the coast and into the bays and estuaries is called a flood current; the outgoing tide is called an ebb current. The strongest flood and ebb currents usually occur before or near the time of the high and low tides. The weakest currents occur between the flood and ebb currents and are called slack tides.

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   What is the difference between tidal current and ebb current?

   • This is called the tidal current. The incoming tide along the coast and into the bays and estuaries is called a flood current; the outgoing tide is called an ebb current. The strongest flood and ebb currents usually occur before or near the time of the high and low tides.

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   Do tidal currents ebb and flood in opposite directions?

   • These tidal currents that ebb and flood in opposite directions are called “rectilinear” or “reversing” currents. Rectilinear tidal currents, which typically are found in coastal rivers and estuaries, experience a “slack water” period of no velocity as they move from the ebbing to flooding stage, and vice versa.

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   What causes a tidal current to ebb?

   • Tidal currents occur in conjunction with the rise and fall of the tide. The vertical motion of the tides near the shore causes the water to move horizontally, creating currents. When a tidal current moves toward the land and away from the sea, it “floods.” When it moves toward the sea away from the land, it “ebbs.”

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   What is the difference between flood and ebb velocities?

   • The flood and ebb velocities are maximum around high and low water respectively. The latter is characteristic of the propagation of the tide in relatively deep water, where bed friction has relatively little effect on the propagation.

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   What is the relationship between ebb duration and flood duration?

   • Thus: in the case that the velocity leads the surface elevation by 90°, the falling period coincides with the ebb duration and the rising period with the flood duration. In general, the phase relationship between vertical and horizontal tide is very complex.

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   In coastal oceanography, the terms ebb and flood refer to tidal currents. These terms are particularly relevant for tidal inlet systems: estuaries, tidal rivers and lagoons. The ebb current corresponds to seaward flow and the flood current to landward flow.

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   The incoming tide along the coast and into the bays and estuaries is called a flood current; the outgoing tide is called an ebb current. The strongest flood and ebb currents usually occur before or near the time of the high and low tides.

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   When a tidal current moves toward the land and away from the sea, it “floods.” When it moves toward the sea away from the land, it “ebbs.” These tidal currents that ebb and flood in opposite directions are called “rectilinear” or “reversing” currents.

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   • Neap Tide
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   A Neap tide will occur after the first and last quarter of the lunar month. During this period the high tide is lower than usual and the low tides are higher than usual.

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   Horizontal movement of water often accompanies the rising and falling of the tide. This is called the tidal current. The incoming tide along the coast and into the bays and estuaries is called a flood current; the outgoing tide is called an ebb current. The strongest flood and ebb currents usually occur before or near the time of the high and low t...

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   The shape of bays, estuaries as well as local wind and weather conditions can combine to magnify the intensity of tides. Strong offshore winds can move water away from coastlines, exaggerating low tide exposures. Onshore winds may act to pile up water onto the shoreline, virtually eliminating low tide exposures. High pressure systems can depress se...

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   When the tide is rising and the flow of the current is directed towards the shore, the tidal current is called the flood current, and when the tide is receding and the current is directed back out to sea, it is called the ebb current. Because the relative positions of the moon, sun and earth change at a known rate, tidal currents are predictable.

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   Ebb and flood currents refer to the horizontal movement of water associated with the rise and fall of tides. Flood currents occur as the tide rises, pushing water inland, while ebb currents happen as the tide recedes, pulling water back out to sea.

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    Dec 19, 2021 · during the entire time it takes for the water to reach the lowest elevation (the falling period) the velocities are negative (ebb current); during the time it takes to reach the highest elevation (the rising period) the velocities are positive (flood current).