Balazs and his colleagues report in the current issue of the Marine Pollution Bulletin how 300 pellets a day were washing up on Kualoa Beach: «A general review of data
for tidal cycles, moon phases, wind speed and direction, and surf conditions failed to identify any consistent correlation with the erratic fluctuations in daily faecal counts.»
Not exact matches
It would be easy to dismiss this as the latest boomlet in an industry famous
for its
cycles, were it not
for a demographic
tidal wave — the so - called silver tsunami — that has already begun: The retirement of America's 76 million baby boomers.
For example, one series of experiments found that QBO is likely forced by seasonally - aliased monthly
tidal cycles.
As the LIA lasted only a few centuries, wouldn't the oceanic
tidal cycles be either irrelevant, or at least not individually responsible
for the occurrence of the LIA?
In other words, they found that once post-glacial rebound effects and lunar
cycle effects had been accounted
for, the sea level rise had essentially been constant (1.18 mm / year) since at least the start of the
tidal gauge records (1849).
I have seen some studies that include the lunar
tidal cycles, but I haven't found one that combines solar and lunar tide changes
for that far back in time
for the North Atlantic.
The only systems that can «move», transporting energy around in
cycles are ones without mechanisms
for energy sharing or dissipation, like planets going around the sun in the limit that you ignore
tidal heating and gravity waves and light pressure.
Multi-scale harmonic model
for solar and climate cyclical variation throughout the Holocene based on Jupiter — Saturn
tidal frequencies plus the 11 - year solar dynamo
cycle (PDF), Nicola Scafetta 03/2012, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar - Terrestrial Physics
Because I lacked the information
for the length of the
tidal cycles (there's about fifty of them, labeled M1, M2, and others), I had to calculate those as well.