On analysis and prediction of tides on the west coast of Great Britain

Summary. Long-period tidal records from eight ports on the west coast of Great Britain are analysed, using both the harmonic method and the response function. Time series up to 9.5 yr were used so that fine structure of certain regions of high energy in the tidal residual spectrum may be examined. This also assisted in accurate separation of tides from surges. According to the currently accepted formulation of M₁, its composition is not compatible with its actual composition in the real tide and, as such, has no useful purpose to serve in computation of predictions. Constituents Sa, Ssa, MA, and MB, are adversly affected by weather and long records are essential for their accurate separation. It has been observed that annual perturbations of S₂, similar to those confirmed in recent years for M₂, also exist but these are not readily recognisable because their speeds are the same as those of constituents T₂ and R₂. These perturbations, being highly sensitive to meteorological forces, are mainly responsible for cusps or humps in the vicinity of major tidal constituents in tidal residual spectra. The relationship of radiational and gravitational tides is found to be in very good agreement with theoretical results. In summer months non-predictable variance reduces to about half of the annual variance, reflecting the regional weather conditions of summer and winter.     

Temporal variations of tides on the west coast of Great Britain

Summary. Temporal variations of tides are investigated by analysing tidal observations from five ports on the west coast of Great Britain. Variations considered here are those occurring in the semi-diurnal species daily, in the tidal constituents resolved from analyses of 29 day sets over a period of two years, 1980–81, and in the tidal constituents resolved from 1 yr sets over a period of 19 yr. The time variations of tidal constituents are mainly due to inseparable terms grouping with the principal term due to the short length of data and the insufficiency of the procedures to account for them. Surges and surge-tide interaction are affecting the resolution of tides. Time variations of constituents of the diurnal species induced by non-tidal forces are spatially consistent. The use of equilibrium relationships to account for modulations of principal constituents by waves separable in an 18.61 yr nodal cycle improves the analysis. However, the modulation is smaller in the real tide than in the equilibrium tide. When the application of this principle is extended to a wider frequency band to cover constituents which cannot be resolved from one month of observations, it may produce the opposite effect. These problems start compounding with decreasing length of data, i.e. increasing band width of resolution.
Functional approximations of interaction coefficients (bi-admittance) of non-linear tides, similar to the response (admittance) of linear tides are computed for semi-diurnal, fourth-diurnal and sixth-diurnal bands. These functional estimates may be used to interpolate unseparable constituents to improve the quality of analyses. The results are consistent with the fact that the response of the sea does not change in a narrow frequency band covering a nodal cycle of the Moon. The change in the equilibrium relationship between the principal term and its nodal term can be interpreted in terms of the damping effect of bottom friction.     

The Operational Geography of Great Britain*

This article examines the operational geography of Great Britain in terms of six components: domestic context; student quality, preparation, and training; professional work environment; publications and productivity; conveniences and facilities; and employment. The goal of operational geography is to provide the basis for blending the strengths of different systems of geography which have much to offer one another. This article uses personal experiences and survey data to examine the strengths and weaknesses in Britain as compared to the United States. It finds that Britain has strong national support, a greater emphasis on geographic education, high-quality but narrowly trained undergraduates, and a productive academic faculty. The United States enjoys a more effective graduate curriculum, better funding, and more opportunity for personal advancement.     

Local food activity in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain

Recent changes in local food supply systems have attracted substantial research interest, but little consideration has been paid to exactly where they occur. This article combines data from three studies to compare local food system development in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland using a single index of food relocalisation, thereby exploring the usefulness of the Index across different social and political contexts. Four diagnostic indicators suggest that local food systems in the south west of Ireland and Britain are particularly well developed. The Index itself is a useful tool for making international comparisons, being easy to replicate and allowing the integration of different data sets. Perhaps its greatest utility is that it opens up new avenues for further research.     

A CORINE map of Great Britain by automated means. Techniques for automatic generalization of the Land Cover Map of Great Britain.

Abstract

The European Commission (EC) programme ‘Co–ordination of Information on the Environment’ (CORINE) includes a project to map the land cover of member states. The CORINE map is essentially one which combines land cover and land use, giving 44 separate classes, in vector, displayed at a scale of 1:100000 with a minimum mappable unit of 25 ha. The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) has compiled a digital land cover map of Great Britain (LCMGB) from classification of Landsat–TM data, resampled to a 25 m raster, with a minimum mappable unit of 0.125 ha and 25 cover types. This paper describes a pilot study which demonstrates the successful spatial generalisation with contextual interpretation to convert the LCMGB to CORINE specifications using semi–automated techniques within a GIS environment.     

Legal implications of mobile shorelines in Great Britain

This paper highlights the three legally defined property areas that lie in the coastal zone in Great Britain (land, foreshore and seabed), and considers the mechanisms used by the two legal systems that operate on the mainland (Scots and English law) to cope with natural processes of erosion and accretion. The two legal systems are shown to be slightly different in how they accommodate erosion and accretion. However, they both have difficulty in coherently addressing the issues of coastal mobility and land ownership, which raises important questions of social justice, as they are based on the perceptions of judges in historic cases.     

区域合作视野下的海峡西岸旅游区乡村旅游标准差异研究

发展乡村旅游是解决“三农问题”的一条重要途径, 乡村旅游等级质量标准的制定与推广, 为乡村旅游产业持续发展提供了保障。在区域合作框架下, 通过比较台湾海峡西岸旅游区四省(福建、浙江、江西、广东)的乡村旅游的地方标准评判项目, 发现各地乡村旅游等级标准与评定存在差异, 制约了区域乡村旅游一体化发展。提出应从利益相关者的功能分工协作机制、检查项目指标可比评价体系、评估产品的核心价值体系三位一体构建评价标准框架系统, 进一步规范与改善乡村旅游质量评判标准, 推动海西乡村旅游星级标准区域一体化建设, 研究案例具有典型性, 可为规范乡村旅游发展提供指导。     

From fishing to farming: Shellfish aquaculture expansion and the complexities of ocean space on Canada's west coast

Ocean spaces are social and political, and just as with terrestrial governance, oceans governance is prone to ambiguity, contradiction, and contestation. The validity and dynamics of these claims will be demonstrated through a study of discourse and structured agreements employed to involve coastal First Nations in the expansion of the shellfish aquaculture sector in British Columbia. Analysis focuses on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, a region identified as having good biophysical potential for shellfish aquaculture and much of which is territorial home of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations. Through community interviews and document and discourse analysis, the article highlights that: seafood, including shellfish, is intimately connected with Nuu-chah-nulth identity; many Nuu-chah-nulth have long-engaged in subsistence and commercial harvests of wild-growing shellfish; and, there are important prospective differences between longer-standing shellfish harvests and shellfish aquaculture. Findings and discussion offer perspective on the sorts of choices that First Nations might encounter in the pursuit of shellfish aquaculture, as well as raise bigger questions about whether or how Nations might tradeoff territorial authority and collective harvest opportunities against leasing state-sanctioned private marine tenures.     

A survey of Earth strain tides in Great Britain

Summary . We report 35 measurements of Earth strain tides at 16 near-surface sites in Great Britain. This is the first widespread survey undertaken specifically to examine the problem of the inhomogeneity of elastic strain fields near the Earth's surface. Some sites were instrumented intensively in order to examine variations of tidal admittance over distances of several hundred metres, while measurements from single instruments at other sites were compared with theoretically predicted strain tides. After allowing for cavity and topographic effects, our data show variations of up to 50 per cent in tidal admittance. We interpret such large anomalies as being due to variations in the regional elastic parameters of wavelength about a 100 m or less. The data indicate that strain measurements from single instrument sites must be interpreted with caution.     

The research of sea-land breeze (SLB) on the west coast of Bohai Bay based on field observation

Four automatic meteorological stations were set up in a line from beach to inland perpendicular to the west coast of Bohai Bay. Wind direction and velocity at altitudes of 2 m, 4 m and 12 m were surveyed with 10 minute intervals. On "Sea-Land Breeze" (SLB) days, the transition from sea breeze to land breeze was very evident in the study area. Direction of sea breeze was basically perpendicular to the coast and mainly from the ENE and E. Duration of sea breeze varied by the stations’ distance to the coastline, and the near-coast wind velocity was larger than that of the inland and decreases as it reaches inland. There was increased development of SLB on sunny days than on overcast days. The term "Climatic Coastal Zone" can be defined for the area influenced by SLB, which reaches more than 74 km inland on a typical SLB day but less than 10 km on a non-typical SLB day.     

海峡西岸城市群城市土地利用效益评价及其耦合协调关系研究

土地的高效利用和配置优化是城市化进程的现实需求,探究如何提高土地利用综合效益,从而实现对地区土地利用可持发展具有重要意义。从经济、社会、生态环境效益三个子系统构建土地利用效益评价指标体系,利用熵值法探究海峡西岸城市群2008—2017年的土地利用效益及其时空演化过程和耦合协调关系,进一步识别限制各城市耦合协调关系提升的主要因素。结果表明：（1）海峡西岸城市群城市土地利用综合效益存在持续上升的时序特征,空间上表现为“东高西低”,高效益单元主要分布于沿海门户城市及中心城市,且趋于聚集,低值单元主要长期分布于内陆城市和南部沿海城市,且范围不断缩减。（2）城市土地利用经济效益在时序上表现出持续上升的特征,空间上表现为“中高西低”,西部低值区范围明显变小;社会效益小幅增长,中东部形成“环状”中效益区;生态效益整体较低,中部低效益区范围扩张显著。（3）各城市土地利用“经济-社会-生态环境”效益耦合协调度呈不同程度增长趋势,近年以协调发展为主,耦合协调程度表现出由沿海向内陆城市递减的空间异质性,土地利用耦合协调发展主要受复合因素制约。     

The transformation of housing and household structures in France and Great Britain

"In France and Great Britain, the last 30 years have seen considerable evolution in the housing stock...and in household structure....This article describes the dynamic interaction of processes influencing the evolution of both households and dwellings. In the two countries, the life course of individuals has become more and more complex. This translates into an ever greater variety of housing needs, not only at different stages in family life, but also in relation to growing job insecurity regardless of family situation. At the same time, policies encouraging home-ownership seem to have reached their limits, because of the new demand for rented accommodation. The answer to sociological and economic evolution cannot be found in a ?single' type of housing and tenure status, but rather in a wide range of dwellings and in the development of a more flexible housing market."     

广西北部湾海岸风沙记录的千年来风暴潮演化的阶段性

本文以广西防城港市江平镇巫头剖面（21°32′8.25″N, 108°06′59.9″E）晚全新世厚393 cm含风暴沉积层的风成沙—潟湖相—弱成壤沉积序列为研究对象,结合野外观测的风暴层沉积特点,在6个AMS-¹⁴C、OSL测年数据和沉积物粒度、重矿物分析的基础上重建了广西北部湾沿海千年来风暴潮演化史。分析结果显示,风暴沉积层平均粒径粗、分选差,重矿物成熟度高、稳定度低,是海岸后滨沙丘向陆一侧受风暴潮增水影响快速堆积的产物;千年来巫头剖面记录的9个风暴潮高发期主要集中于1400 AD之后的小冰期内,风暴潮高发期与西太平洋SST、ENSO活动趋势呈反相关,其中一些风暴潮高发期和历史文献记录的4次“海溢”事件与太阳黑子活动曲线有近乎同步的变化趋势。这意味着巫头剖面风暴潮高发期除受西太平洋暖池、ENSO的影响外,可能还在相当程度上受到太阳活动的强迫。     

Proximity of adult children to their parents in Great Britain

Much of the authors' knowledge of kin interaction and exchange in Britain is partial, in that it is based on studies of co-resident groups and excludes consideration of kin "beyond the household". It is known that there have been large declines in intergenerational co-residence, raising fears that family bonds have weakened. It is also commonly assumed that family members are less likely to live in close proximity than in the past. In this paper the authors examine one important aspect of kin relationships--proximity of adult children to their parents--using nationally representative data from 1986, 1995, and 1999. The analyses presented focus on: differences between 1986, 1995, and 1999 in proximity of adults to their parents; sociodemographic characteristics associated with variations in proximity, and temporal differences in the pattern of these variations. The paper concludes with an assessment of some of the policy implications of the findings.     

The foreshore: geographical implications of the three legal systems in Great Britain

Despite the word 'foreshore' being in common usage relating to the coast, it has three distinct legal definitions in Great Britain. There are three property law regimes, English law in England and Wales, Scots law (feudal) in Scotland and Udal tenure in parts of Orkney and Shetland. These result in the boundaries between private property interests and public property interests lying in a different position on the beach area under each of these property regimes. This paper examines the physical extent of each of the foreshore definitions and highlights a number of associated issues that rely on these different boundaries fundamentally impacting upon the management of the coast.