Distribution of high and low tides versus lunar angle (IMAGE)

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Distribution of high and low tides versus lunar angle

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 (A1) Global pattern derived from satellite altimetry. (A2) Pacific Ocean pattern. (A3) Atlantic Ocean pattern. (B) Pattern derived from 166 tide-gauge stations. In the polar plot, the radial axis denotes the number of observed high- or low-tide events, and the radial sectors indicate the lunar angle in degrees.

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