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Specialists in Coastal Oceanography   Our Expertise Tidal Analysis and Prediction Oceanographic Analysis Hydrodynamic Modelling Specialist Training TPXO to ROMS EXPRESS v. 1.0 I wrote some Matlab scripts to prepare a ROMS forcing file directly from TPXO model data. By popular demand (one person's request, really) I will add links to them here so they can be downloaded. I actually only wrote a few of them; others are credited inside the script. I had to strip the ".m" extensions because that caused Firefox some issues. extractTPXOtides ap2ep interpTPXO spheric_dist tide_ellipse TPXOnodalfactors Vphase                   Chapter One (pdf) of "The Oceanography of Tides" "The Oceanography of Tides" by Prof. Zygmunt Kowalik (University of Alaska, Fairbanks), and Dr. John Luick (Austides Consulting and South Australian Research and Development Institute) Contents:  1.1 Celestial Mechanics  1.2 Tide-producing forces  1.3 Equilibrium tides  1.4 The orbits of earth and moon1.5 The harmonic constituents of the equilibrium tide  1.6 The origins of the major tidal constituents1.7 Nodal phase  1.8 Longitude formulas                                                  Chapter One: Tidal Forces                             The Bemusement Park   What, in water, did Bloom admire?                                Call me Ishmael     The Creation of Tidal Phenomena                             Myths about Gravity and Tides         Summary for Policy Makers (IPCC 4AR)           Moonset over Adelaide           Ask Professor Loeb          Mine Tailings Dumping in PNG                                Thoughts on Ramakrishna and Ramanujan   I am always happy to discuss your marine-related project. Drop me a line, describing your requirements. You can let us provide the solution, or you may decide that with a few tips you can proceed on your own.    External Tides Links