46 Tides (Space)
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This article is from the Space FAQ, by Jon Leech leech@cs.unc.edu and Mark Bradford tla@surly.org with numerous contributions by others.
46 Tides (Space)
Srinivas Bettadpur contributed a writeup on tides, in
ftp://ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/leech/FAQ/Tides.gz
It covers the following areas:
- 2-D Example of Tidal Deformation
- Treatment of Tidal Fields in Practice
- Long term evolution of the Earth-Moon system under tides
The writeup refers to the following texts:
"Geophysical Geodesy" by K. Lambeck
"Tides of the planet Earth" by P. Melchior
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