Tidal heights and currents for US ports (SHIO): A program for Hazmat oil spill response (MacIntosh) (for microcomputers). Data file
This easy-to-use program provides tidal heights and currents for U.S. ports. Although SHIO was developed for HAZMAT oil spill response use, anyone interested in quickly determining these values on a particular date and place will find the program of interest. The interface and outputs were designed to be compatible with other HAZMAT response tools. The data are from the National Ocean Service of NOAA and the calculated results reasonably match the NOS tide tables. The tide times are within 5 minutes of the published times and the tide heights are within 0.1 feet for heights or 0.1 knots for currents. Of course river runoff, weather, changes in shoreline configuration, and depth will cause the predicted tides to vary from the actual heights and currents. The data comes from the Coast and Estuarine Oceanography Branch of the National Ocean Service Division of NOAA. This includes all the reference station data for U.S. stations and foreign station offset data.
- Research Organization:
- National Ocean Service, Seattle, WA (United States). Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment
- OSTI ID:
- 220254
- Report Number(s):
- PB-96-500905/XAB; TRN: 60921903
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: Macintosh OS 7.1 operating system. Requires floating point coprocessor or a 040 CPU. This means most Mac IIs or Quadras will run the program. It will not work with Macintoshes that have the 68040LC CPU or with the PowerPC. Minimum 1 MB memory required. Documentation text for Shio is included on the diskette; PBD: 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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