Corsica tides

The tide is the change in sea level due to the gravitational action of the Moon and the Sun, stars, whose movements can be accurately calculated over periods of several hundreds or even thousands of years. One of the main goals of the study of tides is the research of the relationship between the movement of stars and the ocean response to the action of gravitational forces to establish formulas for prediction. These movements are superimposed steady pace of changes in water level of meteorological origin, premiums-called haircuts, which is essentially the study of statistical methods."According to tidal predictions calculated by SHOM France
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