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generally change rapidly, the predictions can be very accurate
providing no ‘unpredictable’ forces take a hand. Unfortunately, as
any Englishnian knows, the weather has that unpredictable quality:
When an exceptionally high wind blows consistently over
stfetches of shallow sea bordering on an ocean, it causes thewat6r
…
to pile up, producing a storm surge. If this surge coincides with high
spring tides, the increase in height can be disastrous with high
waves breaching coastal defences. A strong wind has this effect in
shallow areasbecaüse the sea bed prevents the waves from ‘escaping’
the wind Which generates them, so that it continues adding energy
to the Water. Inthe North Sea, storm surges born in the northern
part sweep down in an anti—clockwise motio‘nStriking the east coast
of England rst and then sweeping round to Western Europe and
.
the Netherlands in particular. One of the most notable surges, which
led to the disaStrous ooding in January 1953, pushed the water
level as much as IO feet above that of the expected tide.
“
At the National Institute of Océanography,
Ishiguro has
built a unique electronic model of
Sea to study these
_
surges. With it he can lot.—ik” at past
and analyse their
features or, provided with accurate weather forecasts, he can
predict
surges—f—in the ‘analogue’, a day is covered in
well under et
(sée gure; 6)ÏÎÊEÈ1ulyimportar—rt, Dr
machinè'ïcan be
phenomena
under
By thèse means manne
-
and
can allow for the most extreme
likely to
North Sea; Î[f they 1ntended‘ï—fo
make
out-Ÿ.at Sea, say, _by constructing'
'Jc0uld also Check”
u”ntoward@ side—effeth.
Dr Ishiguro has evenbeen ableftd take an
look at
might—happen if
Channel were to Becom—
pletely b10ckedoi
_
‘
_
'
f
“
While
like ,Dr’lshiguro-have been
ËfeVent the .
worst effectsof
Others
ways of building ‘tidal trapsÎ to make this energy available to man;
In February
C. MIsb1ster, Chairman
Canadian
Atlantic Tidalt Power ProgrammingBoard, ,reportedfÇonsiderable
pmgresàï
on the:
,
potential for the capture d£ tidäl p0Wer1ntheBayof Fundy The
Board eè_tabliShed-»in:»AuguSt 1966
Nova Scotia and
New Brû‘ñâwiCk governments was given the job of Studying the
The Last Resource
generally change rapidly, the predictions can be very accurate
providing no ‘unpredictable’ forces take a hand. Unfortunately, as
any Englishnian knows, the weather has that unpredictable quality:
When an exceptionally high wind blows consistently over
stfetches of shallow sea bordering on an ocean, it causes thewat6r
…
to pile up, producing a storm surge. If this surge coincides with high
spring tides, the increase in height can be disastrous with high
waves breaching coastal defences. A strong wind has this effect in
shallow areasbecaüse the sea bed prevents the waves from ‘escaping’
the wind Which generates them, so that it continues adding energy
to the Water. Inthe North Sea, storm surges born in the northern
part sweep down in an anti—clockwise motio‘nStriking the east coast
of England rst and then sweeping round to Western Europe and
.
the Netherlands in particular. One of the most notable surges, which
led to the disaStrous ooding in January 1953, pushed the water
level as much as IO feet above that of the expected tide.
“
At the National Institute of Océanography,
Ishiguro has
built a unique electronic model of
Sea to study these
_
surges. With it he can lot.—ik” at past
and analyse their
features or, provided with accurate weather forecasts, he can
predict
surges—f—in the ‘analogue’, a day is covered in
well under et
(sée gure; 6)ÏÎÊEÈ1ulyimportar—rt, Dr
machinè'ïcan be
phenomena
under
By thèse means manne
-
and
can allow for the most extreme
likely to
North Sea; Î[f they 1ntended‘ï—fo
make
out-Ÿ.at Sea, say, _by constructing'
'Jc0uld also Check”
u”ntoward@ side—effeth.
Dr Ishiguro has evenbeen ableftd take an
look at
might—happen if
Channel were to Becom—
pletely b10ckedoi
_
‘
_
'
f
“
While
like ,Dr’lshiguro-have been
ËfeVent the .
worst effectsof
Others
ways of building ‘tidal trapsÎ to make this energy available to man;
In February
C. MIsb1ster, Chairman
Canadian
Atlantic Tidalt Power ProgrammingBoard, ,reportedfÇonsiderable
pmgresàï
on the:
,
potential for the capture d£ tidäl p0Wer1ntheBayof Fundy The
Board eè_tabliShed-»in:»AuguSt 1966
Nova Scotia and
New Brû‘ñâwiCk governments was given the job of Studying the