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Descriptor English: Tide
Descriptor Spanish: Marea
Descriptor marea
Entry term(s) bajamar
marea creciente
marea del mar de fondo
marea menguante
pleamar
Scope note: El ascenso y descenso periódico del agua resultante de las interacciones gravitacionales entre el Sol, la Luna y la Tierra. El componente vertical del movimiento de las partículas de una marea. Aunque el movimiento horizontal del agua que le acompaña forma parte del mismo fenómeno, es preferible designar a este tipo de movimiento como corriente de marea. (Traducción libre del original: Tide and Current Glossary, NOAA-NOS - CO-OPS (http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/glossary2.pdf)
Descriptor Portuguese: Maré
Descriptor French: Marée
Entry term(s): Deep Sea Tide
Ebb Tide
Falling Tide
Flood Tide
Flood-Tide
Rising Tide
Tree number(s): SP4.606.573.660
Scope note: The periodic rise and fall of the water resulting from gravitational interactions between Sun, Moon, and Earth. The vertical component of the particulate motion of a tidal wave. Although the accompanying horizontal movement of the water is part of the same phenomenon, it is preferable to designate this motion as tidal current (Tide and Current Glossary, NOAA/NOS - CO-OPS (http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/glossary2.pdf)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 34869
Unique ID: DDCS034869
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Tide - Preferred
Concept UI FD00060742
Scope note The periodic rise and fall of the water resulting from gravitational interactions between Sun, Moon, and Earth. The vertical component of the particulate motion of a tidal wave. Although the accompanying horizontal movement of the water is part of the same phenomenon, it is preferable to designate this motion as tidal current (Tide and Current Glossary, NOAA/NOS - CO-OPS (http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/glossary2.pdf)
Preferred term Tide
Entry term(s) Falling Tide
Ebb Tide - Narrower
Concept UI FD00060672
Scope note Lowest level of a falling tide
Preferred term Ebb Tide
Flood-Tide - Narrower
Concept UI FD00060774
Scope note The maximum level reached by a tide
Preferred term Flood-Tide
Rising Tide - Narrower
Concept UI FD00060960
Scope note Time interval during which the tide current is directed approximately in the same way as the direction of the sea current. (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Preferred term Rising Tide
Entry term(s) Flood Tide
Deep Sea Tide - Narrower
Concept UI FD00061069
Preferred term Deep Sea Tide



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