# $Id: harmonics_changelog.txt,v 3.2 2004/08/09 23:45:54 rmk Exp $ # # # Changelog # --------- # 2003-12-18 (rmk) # Added the new primary stations from the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory # in the UK. There are 44 new stations from England, Scotland, and Wales. # # 2003-04-02 (rmk) # Regenerated using the new tcd code. # # 2003-03-21 (rmk) # Re-added Sechelt Rapids, BC; Thomas O'Keefe has personally verified # at the site that the entry is correct to within a few minutes. # # 2003-01-26 (rmk) # Made assorted changes, including making the New Zealand "(PCT)" entries # in both the harmonics and offsets the primary version. The original # entries were renamed with a suffix of "(2)". Other fixes/updates were # also made at the behest of Walt Bilofsky. # # 2002-09-12 (rmk) # Corrected three sites with bad location or timezone information. The # corrections were provided by Dean Pentcheff. Also, new harmonics and # offsets have been provided by Phil Thornton for New Zealand. In order # to avoid any conflict with NZ data items from other sources, Phils # have been tagged with a "(PCT)" suffix. # # 2002-08-25 (rmk) # Corrected two sites in the Netherlands, and all sites in Germany were # replaced according to data from Koos Doekes and Wolfgang Lange. Several # name changes/corrections were also made. # # 2001-10-15 (rmk) # Per Rich Pawlowicz: # Corrected longitudes and latitudes for approximately 20 entries in the # British Columbia and Washington state area. # # 2001-09-04 (rmk) # (Re)installed harmbase on it's new server after receiving the database # dump from Dave Flater. Updated boilerplate text to reflect that. # Deleted questionable harmonics entry for Half Moon Bay, CA in favor of # the offset for same which appears to have a cleaner lineage. Corrected # typo in "Fort Canby, Jetty A, Columbia River, Washington" (was "Canhy"). # # 2001-07-21 (dave) # Deleted Sechelt Rapids, BC; Jason Carver reported disagreed with # published tables. # # 2001-05-11 (dave) # Suppressed the Comox, BC data set reported by Steve Kulesh to be the # less accurate, and corrected the latitude of the other. # # 2001-03-31 (dave) # Corrected pedigrees on Icelandic data. # Removed data contributed by Robert Chalmers after concluding that it # probably came from some Admiralty publication. # Tweaked boilerplate text. # # 2001-03-08 (dave) # Tweaked boilerplate text again; no data changes. # # 2001-02-21 (dave) # Tweaked boilerplate text for a few details I forgot. # Restored the two Antarctica locations deleted last time around # because they are no more questionable than the few Australian # locations submitted by the same person. # # 2001-02-17 (dave) # Revised boilerplate text. # Deleted the one remaining German location and two Antarctica locations # whose pedigrees were mysterious and therefore possibly tainted by the # permissions issue. # # 2001-02-07 (dave) # Corrected name of Ocean City, New Jersey to Ocean City, 9th Street Bridge, # New Jersey. # # 2001-02-06 (dave) # With the discovery that each European country individually grants # permissions to use harmonic constants for that country alone, and # the likelihood that Jean-Pierre did not obtain them all, I have # deleted all of the world wide data related to the TMGPM as well. # This will break some of the secondary stations until I get a chance # to purge them. # # 2001-02-04 (dave) # Cleaned up a few data sets missed earlier. # # 2001-02-04 (dave) # The UKHO has written to express that some of the harmonics data were # owned by the UKHO and are in violation of copyright. Though this # does not appear to be the case, I have removed all data for the # U.K. and all other data with suspect commentary until, if and when, # the UKHO agrees otherwise. 108 data sets were affected. # # 2001-01-22 (dave) # Of two data sets for Galway, Ireland, deleted the one that disagreed with # the Irish Times. Thanks to Joe Martin. # # 2001-01-16 (dave) # Added Roompot binnen, Netherlands, which was omitted by mistake in the # previous update. # # 2001-01-14 (dave) # - Added 39 authoritative data sets for the Netherlands contributed by # Koos Doekes of the Rijkswaterstaat RIKZ/ITB. # - Added many new constituents needed by that data. # - Fixed the constituent MPS2. I had guessed wrongly about its # formulation. # - Merged in harmonics.anchorage since the resulting additional bloat # was no longer significant. The new file is called harmonics.txt. # - Constants having zero amplitude have been replaced by "x 0 0" to save # space. # - Deleted the 6 Netherlands data sets remaining from before. # - Renamed the Seavey Island reference station back to Seavey Island # (Back Channel) on advice that this is a different place than the # subordinate station in offsets.xml. # # 2001-01-07 (dave) # Deleted lowest-pedigree data set for Hoek van Holland for disagreeing # badly with the predictions on the Dutch government web site. # # 2000-12-31 (dave) # Of two data sets for Cobh, Ireland, deleted the one that disagreed with # MacMillan Reeds Nautical Almanac. Thanks to Richard Foley. # # 2000-11-22 (dave) # Added Iceland data contributed by Bjarni Valsson. # # 2000-11-08 (dave) # Deleted Bridgetown, Barbados after Michael Goddard reported that it # disagrees with the local paper as well as direct observation. # # 2000-10-14 (dave) # (See related changelog entry 2000-03-13) Renamed Race Rocks, British # Columbia Current to Juan De Fuca Strait (East), British Columbia # Current. According to Hinrich Schaefer, the current at Race Rocks is # better approximated by Race Passage, British Columbia Current. # # 2000-10-03 (dave) # Hatinohe --> Hachinohe (courtesy W. Fred Pinnix) # Seavey Island, Back Channel, Maine --> Seavey Island, disputed waters, # New England (courtesy of several conflicting testimonies) # # Port-Navalo had a highly bogus amplitude in it. Reverted to a # previously deleted, lower-pedigreed "duplicate" that lacked the bogus # amplitude. (Courtesy of someone whose name was mangled by a non-MIME- # compliant mailer) # # 2000-09-23 (dave) # # Name harmonizations: # Apalachicola, Florida --> Apalachicola, Apalachicola Bay, Florida # Bayou Rigaud (Grand Isle), Louisiana --> Bayou Rigaud, Grand Isle, Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana # Beachley (Aust), Severn River, England --> Beachley (Aust), River Severn, England # Belem, Brazil --> Belém, Pará, Brazil # Blaine, Washington --> Blaine, Semiahmoo Bay, Washington # Cape Dyer, Nunavut --> Cape Dyer, Baffin Island, Nunavut # Cape Sheridan, Nunavut --> Cape Sheridan, Lincoln Sea, Nunavut # Clarence Harbour, Long Island, Bahamas --> Clarence Harbor, Long Island, Bahamas # Coral Harbour, Nunavut --> Coral Harbour, Southampton Island, Nunavut # Cuttyhunk Pond Entrance, Massachusetts --> Cuttyhunk Pond entrance, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts # Eureka, California --> Eureka, Humboldt Bay, California # Ferndale, Washington --> Ferndale, Strait of Georgia, Washington # Florianopolis, Brazil --> Florianópolis, Brazil # Great St. Lawrence, Newfoundland --> Great St. Lawrence Harbour, Newfoundland # Hebron, Labrador --> Hebron, Hebron Fjord, Labrador # Inward Rocks, Severn River, England --> Inward Rocks, River Severn, England # Itajai, Brazil --> Itajaí, Brazil # Liscomb, Nova Scotia --> Liscomb Harbour, Nova Scotia # Macau, Brazil --> Macau, Rio Acu, Brazil # Maceio, Brazil --> Maceió, Brazil # Muroran, Japan --> Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan # New Bedford, Massachusetts --> New Bedford, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts # Newport Bay Entrance, California --> Newport Bay Entrance, Corona del Mar, California # Paranagua, Brazil --> Paranaguá, Brazil # Salinopolis, Brazil --> Salinópolis, Brazil # San Mateo Bridge (East), California --> San Mateo Bridge (east end), San Francisco Bay, California # San Mateo Bridge, California Current --> San Mateo Bridge, South San Francisco Bay, California Current # Sao Luis, Brazil --> São Luís, Brazil # Sao Sebastiao, Brazil --> São Sebastião, Brazil # Sasebo, Japan --> Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan # Schooner Harbour, Nunavut --> Schooner Harbour, Baffin Island, Nunavut # Seal Cove, New Brunswick --> Seal Cove, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick # Seward, Alaska --> Seward, Resurrection Bay, Alaska # St. Augustine, City Dock, Florida --> St. Augustine, city dock, Florida # St. Mary's Harbour, Newfoundland --> St. Mary Harbour, St. Mary Bay, Newfoundland # Tampico Harbor, Veracruz, Mexico --> Tampico Harbor (Madero), Tamaulipas, Mexico # Tampico, Veracruz, Mexico --> Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico # Tiverton, Nova Scotia --> Tiverton (Boar's Head), St. Mary Bay, Nova Scotia # Trepassey, Newfoundland --> Trepassey Harbour, Newfoundland # Tutoia, Brazil --> Tutóia, Baia da, Brazil # Tyne River Entrance, England --> River Tyne Entrance, England # Uchucklesit, British Columbia --> Uchucklesit Inlet, British Columbia # Veracruz City, Veracruz, Mexico --> Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico # Vitoria, Brazil --> Vitória, Brazil # Wainright Basin, British Columbia --> Wainwright Basin, British Columbia # Waretown, New Jersey --> Waretown, Barnegat Bay, New Jersey # Winter Harbour, Nunavut/NWT --> Winter Harbour, Melville Island, Nunavut/NWT # Yakutat, Alaska --> Yakutat, Yakutat Bay, Alaska # # Moved Rensselaer Bay, Nunavut to Rensselaer Bugt, Greenland. # Fixed coordinates of one of the many Green Cove Springs. # # Deletions (inaccurate sets obsoleted by offsets): # Big Spanish Key, Florida (use with caution) # Bird Key (Highway Bridge), Florida (use with caution) # Fat Deer Key, Florida (use with caution) # Flamingo, Florida (use with caution) (two of these) # # Miscellaneous spelling corrections of the accent and tilde variety, in # what is sure to be a long battle against the legacy of 7-bit ASCII. # # Several more fixes from Walt Bilofsky. # # 2000-09-17 (dave) # Renamings and relocations courtesy of Walt Bilofsky: # Carnavon, Australia --> Carnarvon, Australia # Cornet Bay, Washington --> Cornet Bay, Deception Pass, Washington # Fernandina Beach, Florida --> Fernandina Beach, Amelia River, Florida # Isla Socorro* --> Isla Socorro, Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico # Kegashka, Québec --> Kegaska, Québec # Moved North Star Bay to Greenland. # Parkers Cove (Tg1a), Nova Scotia --> Parkers Cove, Nova Scotia # Moved Patos Island to Washington. # Harmonized name, coordinates of Pedder Bay, British Columbia. # Sept?Iles, Québec --> Sept-Îles, Québec # Spencers Island, Nova Scotia --> Spencer Island, Nova Scotia # Timaru, New Zealand --> Timaru Harbour, New Zealand # Time zones: # Isla Socorro* harmonized to :America/Mazatlan. # All Sonora updated to :America/Hermosillo. # Deleted Shark River Entrance, Florida (use with caution) which is replaced # by more reliable offsets. # # 2000-08-29 (dave) # Load of renamings to make locations more descriptive and/or to # harmonize with the original NOAA names (Walt Bilofsky). # Moved Outer Wood Island from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick (Bilofsky). # Fixed coordinates for Galway, Ireland (James A Bartlett). # # 2000-08-27 (dave) # Wasin Island, Keyna --> Wasini Island, Kenya (thanks Frank Barnwell). # Thank God Harbor moved from Canada to Greenland (Walt Bilofsky). # Foster, Antarctica --> Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetlands # (Walt Bilofsky). # Moved three more places from Quebec to Labrador and renamed all # Labrador places from Newfoundland to Labrador (Walt Bilofsky). # Put all Labrador locations in time zone America/Goose_Bay, which # changes them from GMT-03:30 to GMT-04:00. (This needs to be added # to the compatibility table in XTide.) # Reapplied renaming of Wauwinet from 2000-08-13 that I apparently # forgot to put in the master database. Either that, or I've got # gremlins. (Walt Bilofsky). # Tweaked coordinates of North Lubec and South Lubec (Walt Bilofsky). # # 2000-08-21 (dave) # Placed Forteau in Newfoundland instead of Quebec. Thanks to # Joe Wissler. # # 2000-08-20 (dave) # Applied the following batch of corrections from Walt Bilofsky. # Re-fixed Carquinez Strait longitude as originally fixed 1995-10-10. # Fixed latitude of Ferndale, Washington. # Synced coordinates of Port Angeles data sets to plausible values. # Fixed coordinates of Stamford, Connecticut. # Fixed longitude of Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. # Updated coordinates of many Florida locations from Tim Cera; also fixed # some aliases. # # 2000-08-13 (dave) # Renamed Wauwinet, Massachusetts to Wauwinet (outer shore), Nantucket # Island, Massachusetts for convenience of those searching for # Nantucket locations. # # 2000-07-30 (dave) # Deleted Seavey Island, Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire (differences # on Portland) which had close enough times but wrong amplitudes. # Added Cedar Key, Way Key, Florida from NOAA web site. # # 2000-07-26 (dave) # Changed all Nunavut sites to time zone :America/Iqaluit. # (Sites marked Nunavut/NWT were not changed.) # Changed name of 'Frobisher' to 'Iqaluit.' # # 2000-06-23 (dave) # Deleted one of the White Rock, British Columbia sets which was # clearly bogus, and reported as such by Baden Kudrenecky. # # 2000-06-20 (dave) # As of 1999, Sonora quit observing Daylight Savings Time. This # forced the maintainers of the zoneinfo database to split off a new # time zone just for Sonora: :America/Hermosillo. This change has # not yet propagated to the average Linux distribution. As a # temporary workaround, I have changed the time zones of the four # Sonora locations to MST7. This makes predictions correct right # now but breaks predictions for years before 2000. When the # zoneinfo change has propagated to Slackware, I will update the # time zones in harmonics.world and add the new time zone to the # backwards compatability table in the XTide source code. # # 2000-06-18 (dave) # Changed "Guayamas" back to "Guaymas." I don't know what gave # me the idea it was spelt "Guayamas." # # 2000-05-07 (dave) # Downgraded 13 pedigrees that were missed by the pedigree- # guessing heuristic. There remain a good many -1B and -1.5B # pedigrees on data sets that lack explicit commentary; what # to do with these? # # Corrected typo "Temminal Island." # # 2000-04-29 (dave) # Separated Yakutat, Alaska from Yakutat, Yakutat Bay, Alaska. # The two are distinct in the Y2K NOAA data file, though same # station number is used. # # Fixed extra space in name of North Island, Australia. # # Ran an import over old TD4 and CR4 collection to make sure that # nothing was missed. The visible result is just a lot of updated # pedigrees, but the database grew by a number of typo sets, # near enough duplicates, aliases by units or meridian, and # bad subordinate stations. # # Deleted some more near enough duplicates. # # 2000-04-28 (dave) # Imported miscellaneous old TD4 files that had been waiting on # the harmonic convergence. # # Three of the New Zealand data sets claimed meridians of -12:00 # instead of +12:00. I left these intact and hope they are correct. # # Unknown constituent LDA1 was stripped from Mexican data, but the # stripped data values are noted in the comment blocks. # # Corrected longitude on one of the Isla Guadalupes. Negated longitude # of Okukari Bay in new data as a guess at where it should be in lieu # of floating offshore from NZ. # # Downgraded pedigree of data via Chalmers to give preference to # versions of same data in the TD4 files. # # Deleted two near enough duplicates. # # Deleted Prudhoe Bay Dock #1 because Tom Kendrick, in email to Wallner, # said that it had been superseded for not producing good predictions. # # 2000-04-23 (dave) # Added constituent A7 after Wallner substantiated guess that the # A7 in Mexican data came from Table 2 in SP98. # Did massive unaliasing of location names, esp. British Columbia # and Japan. Got rid of some near enough duplicates. # # 2000-04-18 "Harmonic Convergence" (dave) # # harmonics.world was created by the merger of the original # harmonics file, harmonics.canadian, harmonics.japan, and # harmonics.admiralty. The merger was technically made possible # just by me deciding that some of the things that Jean-Pierre # LaPointe and Toru Suzuki did were probably by mistake and giving # up on trying to understand and reproduce them. The business case # for doing the merger in and of itself is easier and more # consistent data maintenance. But in addition, the extension of # congen to approximate Doodson formulated constituents and the # availability of new expertise enabled me to add the constituents # needed to import data that did not fit into any of the previous # harmonics files. Henceforth, it will be pretty easy to add # constituents as needed without a proliferation of incompatible # harmonics files. # # Sorry about the size :-/ I never expected to have so many # constituents, so XTide doesn't handle sparse data sets # efficiently. # # The location names from harmonics.canadian and harmonics.japan # were processed to make them mesh with the canonical naming system. # Canadian locations were automagically placed into provinces; # doubtless there are errors. Still to do: fix aliasing of # locations, search for typo sets, and import the remaining old # data. # # Nits that were fixed during the import and merge: # 1. In harmonics.admiralty, Skua Well No 4 had the same constituents # as Thevenard Island. Deleted both. # 2. In harmonics.canadian, the same thing happened withth Roberts Bank, # Washington and Tsawwassen, British Columbia. # 3. Revised some probably incorrect time zones in harmonics.canadian. # # Please refer to the commentary in the file harmonics.world.condata # in the distribution condata.tar.gz in the XTide FTP directory for # explanation of some of the constituents and details of what changed # for Canada and Japan data. # # # Documentation carried over from the legacy harmonics files follows. # # # harmonics # # # CHANGELOG # --------- # 2000-04-02 Imported data supplied by Tim Cera of the St. Johns River # Water Management District in Florida. Many of the data sets are # alternates. # 2000-03-26 Updated commentary for Kilindini Harbor (thanks to # Frank Barnwell for verifying its location). Eliminated many typo # sets, sets that were identical except for questionable datums, and # near-duplicate sets that were the same data arrived by different # channels. Salvaged Aransas Channel and Old Saybrook Point by combining # estimated datums from old typo data sets with amps and phases from # fresh NOAA data that lacked datums. # 2000-03-20 Got rid of another old typo set. I need to write a query # that finds these automatically. # 2000-03-20 Fixed some aliasing of data sets. Got rid of some bad # old ones that only survived because numerical typos made them appear # to be distinct from correct, new data. Fixed units of Cape Cod # Canal Current which got broken in yesterday's import. # 2000-03-19 Switched over to Harmbase. This includes a change in # naming convention to note expiration dates on old data. Imported # latest NOAA data sets for U.S. locations, deleted some # non-U.S. locations that should not have been in there. Improved # pedigree on many old data sets, possibly with minor changes to their # coordinates. # 2000-03-12 Early testing with Harmbase revealed three issues deserving # attention. # 1. Rovinj, Croatia and Pula, Croatia have same constants. Marked # both as deleted. # 2. Juan De Fuca Strait (East), British Columbia Current duplicates # Race Rocks, British Columbia. Deleted the former, renamed the # latter to include Current. # 3. San Francisco and Willemstad, Curacao had numbered extra data sets # that were not substantially different. Deleted these. # Also deleted a previously commented-out data set for Seavey Island, # New Hampshire that was actually Seavey Island, Maine. All commented-out # data sets will disappear when Harmbase regenerates the file. # 2000-01-26 Replaced Sydney constants that were fudged using Harmgen # 2.0 with marginally better constants done right using Harmgen 2.1. # 2000-01-25 Updated Antarctic time zones: Port Martin to PMT-10, # Ross Island to McMurdo time. # 2000-01-06 Added 11 of 12 Faroe Islands locations from Thormann Kruse. # The Kirkjubø data were not complete. # 1999-09-05 Removed Nakawato Rapids, B.C. which was a misspelled # duplicate of Nakwakto Rapids, B.C. # 1999-07-08 Removed data set labeled "Olso, Norway" which was # a duplicate of the Oslo data set. # 1999-07-02 Removed blank line from entry for Vlissingen, it was # hosing some old version of XTide. Thanks to Graeme Rae. # 1998-09-26 Added Bayonne Bridge, Kill Van Kull, New York Current # and updated San Juan, Puerto Rico using 1998 NOS data via Ed # Wallner. Swapped San Francisco and San Francisco (2) again because # according to 1998 NOS data, (2) will be used for official # predictions starting in 1999. Updated Sydney, Australia with # constants derived by Harmgen 2.0 from raw data provided by # David Gorham (DGorham@mhl.nsw.gov.au) covering 1996-06-30 to 1997-07-01. # 1998-07-18 Removed non-U.S. data sets converted from 1991 NOS data # that were never intended for distribution and contained many # inaccuracies. Dublon, Guam, and Ponape Harbor are now defaulting to # AED's data again. On an unrelated note, commented both LeHavre data # sets after they disagreed by over 1 hour with official tide tables # sent by roland.brierre@eurorscg.fr. Although adjusting their # meridians by an hour would have reduced the problem to within 20 # min. for the small number of tides that I compared, Ronan Golhen # is currently working to fix the France # data in general, so I will wait and see if he gets back to me. # 1998-06-28 Commented data set for Brunswick, Maine which is # inaccurate because it was made with large differences on Portland. # Brunswick and Barnegat Inlet now appear in offsets.xml. The new # Barnegat Inlet is not much different from the old one; I conclude # that there is some issue of "inside" versus "outside" the inlet # that is causing confusion. # 1998-06-01 Commented data set for Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey which # was reported as bogus by "craig c. haviland" , # who says there should have been a low tide at 1998-05-22 13:30. I note # that the tide predictions also conflict greatly with the current # predictions for the same location. # 1998-04-12 Updated datum for Brest, France per Yves Bodenez # (ybodenez@mail.club-internet.fr). Added Segunda Angostura, Chile # Current and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Current from Ed Wallner. # 1998-02-20 Clarified that Neah Bay data sets are in Juan de Fuca Strait, # not the town of Neah Bay. # 1998-02-08 Corrected spelling of Fremantle, Australia. # 1997-11-27 Updated all obsolete timezones, I hope. Put Baltimore # (Chesapeake Bay) after Baltimore (Fort McHenry). # 1997-11-25 Corrected spelling of Everett, Washington. # 1997-11-13 Corrected spelling Vlissengen --> Vlissingen. Thanks # to Joep.Maas@inter.NL.net. # 1997-09-14 Another installment of new data. Fixed some apparent # typos in old data (agreed with NOS data except for one number): # Bayshore, Long Island, New York; Block Island (Old Harbor), Rhode # Island; Malakal Harbor, Palau Islands, Caroline Islands; # St. John's River Entrance, Florida Current. Replaced # Cape Cod Canal (East Entrance) which had zero Sa and Ssa. Clarified # some names. # 1997-09-11 Cleaned up some bogus or null coordinates. Deleted # duplicate data set for Lewes, Delaware (was the same as Breakwater # Harbor). Moved Avonmouth to England where it belongs. # 1997-08-26 Fixed misspelling of Sacramento in Rio Vista, Sacramento # River, California. # 1997-08-23 Swapped San Francisco and San Francisco (2), thus re- # installing the previous data in the preferred slot, because # the old data matches NOS predictions and the new data doesn't. # 1997-08-10 Corrected spelling of Powell River, B.C. Thanks to # mikesmith@ibm.net. Added some 1991 NOS data. Misc. renamings of # data sets and reshufflings. # 1997-07-29 Replaced speeds, equilibrium arguments, and node factors # with congen output spanning the epoch from 1970 to 2037. After # hand-checking all of the values I find the worst disagreement to be # in the node factors of OO1 which are still within about 0.005 of # NOS data. This could be due to the relatively small divisor in # formula 77, which I took verbatim from SP 98 (possibly sacrificing # a significant digit). # 1997-07-12 Commented Cross Island, Alaska; Kotzebue, Kotzebue # Sound, Alaska; and Kivalina, Chukchi Sea, Alaska after Ed said # that they were not releasable data. One Z0 update and several # nit fixes to data set comments. # 1997-07-08 More datum updates, added a newer Cape Hatteras. # 1997-07-06 Deleted Anchorage, Alaska now that harmonics.anchorage # has been created. The 37-constituent data set for Anchorage is # wildly inaccurate; use harmonics.anchorage instead. # 1997-06-30 Added NSB Kings Bay, Cumberland Sound, Georgia. # 1997-06-29 Updated datum for these locations per 1997 NOS # data (via Ed Wallner): Avon, North Carolina; Bar Harbor, Maine; # Bayshore, Long Island, New York; Bridgeport, Connecticut; # Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; Calcasieu Pass (lighthouse), Louisiana; # Cape Cod Canal (East Entrance), Massachusetts; Friday Harbor, San # Juan Island, Washington; Humboldt Bay, California; Mobile, Alabama; # Morehead City, North Carolina; Nantucket, Massachusetts; # New Bedford, Massachusetts; Providence, Rhode Island; Rockland, # Maine; Old Saybrook Point, Connecticut; Stamford, Connecticut; # Naples, Florida. Deleted extra data set for Bar Harbor and Naples, # Florida. Changed name of Punta Tunas to Punta Tuna, updated datum. # Added 36 new data sets, renumbering older data, and replaced Long # Beach and Port Chicago with NOS data (was TMGPM). Renumbered some # U.S. data sets to make more recent data come first, following 1997 # NOS data from Ed. Both San Francisco and New York were affected by # this series of changes. # 1997-06-29 Commented out Knight Key Channel after observations by # BnLmblmar@aol.com revealed it to be bogus. # 1997-06-12 Fixed units on Durban, South Africa (2) to meters. # Changed meridian of Mazatlan to -7 to agree with newest TD4 data. # Note: Ed determined that the NOS web site predictions for Honolulu # did have a problem, so the Honolulu meridian should be correct as it # is now at -10. # 1997-06-08 Added 5 more British Columbia data sets. # 1997-06-08 Meridian of Surinam River changed from -3:00 to -3:30 # based on information from Ed Wallner. Fixed coordinates of Mare # Island. Added two more data sets. # 1997-06-05 Fixed time zone on Massacre Bay and Constantine Harbor. # DOH! # 1997-06-05 Ed's 1995 tide tables disagree with NOS web site. # Changed meridians on Massacre Bay and Hololulu back to their # original values until the matter is settled. # 1997-06-04 Changed meridian on Massacre Bay (from -10 to -9) and # Honolulu (from -10 to -11) to make predictions match NOS web site # predictions. # 1997-06-01 Added Mare Island, Naval Shipyard, California. # 1997-06-01 Added 22 Bahamas locations from Ed Wallner. # 1997-06-01 Swapped Juneau and Juneau (2) on advice of Tom Tilley # (tomt@net.com). # 1997-06-01 As a result of feedback from Ed Wallner: corrected # longitude of Tarbert Island. Added warnings to certain Florida data # sets flagged by Ed as "use with caution." Changed Fat Dear Key to # Fat Deer Key. Added 6 Florida data sets and 29 Alaska; deleted # TMGPM data duplicating new Alaska data. # 1997-05-26 Integrated Pacific data sets from Alan Eugene Davis # (adavis@saipan.com). # 1997-05-26 Integrated 9 more data sets from Ed Wallner. Renamed # older Mexico data for consistency. # 1997-05-25 Integrated 235 new data sets from Ed Wallner. Changed # names of a few old data sets to preserve uniqueness. # 1997-05-18 ft -> kt, Salisbury, Maryland (2 miles below) Current. # 1997-05-18 ft -> kt, Delaware Bay Entrance, Delaware Current (2). # 1997-05-18 ft -> kt, Chesapeake Bay Ent., VA (2). # 1997-05-18 Fixed units on C&D Canal to knots^2. # 1997-05-18 Fixed Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey Current, which thought # it was a regular tide (feet instead of knots). # 1997-05-12 Commented out Seavey Island, New Hampshire on report # that it was supposed to be +20 from Portland, Maine on high tide and # +18 on low, but wasn't. Thanks to Paul Sadler (fdny@webtv.net). # 1997-04-27 Commented New Zealand data sets that were incorrectly # generated: Lyttelton, Napier, Nelson, Onehunga, Port Taranaki, # Wellington and Westport. Thanks again to Edward P. Wallner. # 1997-04-27 Replaced "bogo-knots" with "knots^2". Thanks to Edward # P. Wallner (epwallnr@world.std.com) for dispelling the mystery. # 1997-03-11 Fixed spelling of Aquia Creek, Virginia. Thanks to # Dan Henderson (dhenders@illuminet.net). # 1997-03-06 Added Deauville, France submitted by Laurent Brasseur # (MBI_france@msn.com). # 1997-02-17 Corrected N(2) for Busum from 2.48 to 0.248. Thanks to # nck@kronas.de and Jean-Pierre. # 1997-02-02 Commented out Cudjoe Key (West), Florida on report from # Mike Smith (mike@conch.net) that it is totally bogus. Commented out # Matanzas Pass, Estero Island, Florida on report from Mike Klein # (mklein@cyberstreet.com) that high tides are off by a considerable # amount. Added commented out data set for St. Augustine Beach, # Florida, which was ordered from NOAA by Dave Raye # (102655.2727@CompuServe.COM) but found to be wildly inaccurate (this # data set was laying around for a long time because I didn't know # what to do with it). # 1997-01-19 Integrated 777 data sets from Jean-Pierre, originally # from the Service Hydrographique et Oceanographique de la Marine, # Paris. Fixed punctuation on St. Mark's River Entrance. # 1996-12-30 Fixed longitude of Brest, France and Dover, England. # Changed timezone specs that were broken by zoneinfo upgrades. # 1996-08-27 Southhampton --> Southampton. # 1996-08-20 Corrected coordinates for Alameda. Thanks to # Pat Williams (plw@ccs.lbl.gov). # 1996-08-16 Globally added units to DATUM line in support of v1.5 # units conversions. # 1996-08-11 Transformed negative amplitude for Juskatla, BC. # 1996-07-30 Swapped Victoria and Victoria (2) on advice of Martin # Knowles (mknowles@halcyon.com). # 1996-06-04 Added the state name to major cities and waterways which # had previously stood alone, to help with searching. # 1996-05-16 Added data sets submitted by George # (george@mech.seas.upenn.edu), a bunch of East coast locations. # 1996-05-09 Replaced epochs & node factors with automatically # converted ones going back to 1970. Thanks to Scott Hemphill # (hemphill@alumni.caltech.edu). # 1996-05-01 Added data set for Dublin, Ireland. # 1996-04-16 Negated all remaining data sets with mostly negative # epochs: Apalachicola, Florida; Aransas Channel, Texas; Bay # St. Louis, Mississippi; Clearwater Beach, Florida; Cocodrie, # Louisiana; Galveston (Pleasure Pier); Matanzas Pass, Estero Island, # Florida; Naples, Florida; Nassau; Padre Island (South), Texas; # Sabine Pass, Texas; Tampico Harbor; Turkey Point, Florida; Albany, # New York; Hong Kong; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Grays Harbor Entrance # Current; San Juan Channel (South Entrance) Current; Cape Cod Canal # (East Entrance); Moonstone Beach, Rhode Island; Cape Cod Canal # Current; George Washington Bridge (Hudson River) Current; Hell Gate # (East River) Current; Key West Current; The Narrows, Midchannel, New # York Harbor Current; Nantucket Harbor Entrance Channel Current; # Pollock Rip Channel Current; Portsmouth Harbor Entrance Current; # Vieques Passage Current. # 1996-04-09 Added Anchorage (Knik Arm) from Jean-Pierre. # 1996-04-04 Hell Gate (East River) Current is bogo-knots. # 1996-04-02 Negated epochs for Strait of Juan de Fuca Entrance Current. # 1996-04-02 Added about 250 British Columbia data sets contributed by # Tom Brown, tbrown@baremetal.com. Many, if not most, British # Columbia locations are on islands. My map isn't good enough to get # the names of the islands right, so they're all just going to be # labeled as British Columbia. Although the NOS comments will often # name a particular island or waterway, investigation shows that these # comments are usually just giving the general area. # 1996-03-21 Added bigger disclaimer. Changed units to bogo-knots # for Cape Cod Canal Current. # 1996-03-06 Negated epochs for Rosario Strait. # 1996-02-18 Renamed "Morro, California" to "Morro Bay, California" # which seems to be the correct name. # 2/3/96 Negated the epochs for Shell Point, Florida. # 2/3/96 Converted all England data sets to use meters instead of feet. # 2/1/96 Negated the epochs for Chesapeake Bay Entrance Current and # Delaware Bay Entrance Current; they still only match in a vague # general sort of way. # 1/30/96 Negated the epochs for Chesapeake and Delaware Canal # Current. Times now match, but velocities are wrong. # 1/28/96 Negated the epochs for San Diego Bay Entrance Current. # Changed the default San Diego tide set to better match heights from # NOAA. # 1/23/96 Negated the epochs for Port Aransas. # 1/16/96 Thanks to Edward J. Corbett, edc@unr.edu, for sending data # to enable the following: added epochs for 1980 through 1993; # corrected J1 for 1998; changed the default data sets for Astoria, # Oregon and San Francisco to mesh better with NOAA. # 1/13/96 Commented out the data set for Portland, England. # gareth@grevans.demon.co.uk reported that Jan 10 1996 09:26 AM GMT # should be a high tide; it doesn't work out that way regardless of # whether I negate the epochs or not. # 12/20/95 Units for Woods Hole are bogo-knots (like Deception Pass). # 12/17/95 Negated the epochs for Deception Pass. # 12/14/95 Negated the epochs for Daytona Beach. # 12/6/95 Added numbers for 1994. # 12/3/95 Finished adding tons of new data sets that Dean sent. Yay! # 12/2/95 The Slackware 3 distribution that I installed on my PC at # home had a bunch of new time zone files. I went through and checked # my guesses against the time zone files where possible. Venezia and # Esbjerg were wrong. I commented on the new time zone files, but # kept the old syntax in the time zone definitions since most people # won't have the new files anyway. One possible improvement would be # to change time zones like GMT+3 to POSIX-style definitions with the # time zone name (EAT-3). But, for now I will just keep everything # consistent. (Ideally, everything could be POSIX, but time zone # functionality in POSIX is under-specified. The BSD behavior is # considered an implementation-dependent extension, and the SYSV # behavior is just not adequate for an application like this!) # 12/1/95 Negated the epochs for Port Townsend, WA. # 11/30/95 Negated the epochs for Willets Point, NY. # 11/29/95 Negated the epochs for The Narrows (North End), Puget Sound # Current and Admiralty Inlet Current. # 11/6/95 Negated the epochs for Hampton Roads, VA. # 11/2/95 Negated the epochs for Golden Gate Current. # 10/12/95 Fixed meridians for locations in WET time zone. # 10/10/95 Changed longitude for Carquinez Strait from 120d13.1'W to # 122d13.1'W, which may or may not be correct but sure is closer. # 10/10/95 Dean added standardized comments for latitude, longitude, # and amplitude units. # 10/8/95 Globally changed the bogus Pacific-New to Pacific. # 9/25/95 Added all the current sets I could find (not many). # 9/16/95 Backward-compatible change to add tzfile references. Added # currents sent in by Jack Greenbaum. # 9/10/95 Negated the epochs for Morro, California. # 9/8/95 Added a bunch more locations from TID files that I found on # the net. Globally expanded B.C. to Baja California because I # found out that it also stands for British Columbia. # 9/2/95 Added several new locations from TID files that I found on # the net. # 8/29/95 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE! Added data for calculating absolute # tide heights. A0, Z0, Mean Lower Low Tide, whatever it's called, # it's in there. # 8/22/95 Added about 160 sets of constituents donated by Karl Hahn # (hahn@lds.loral.com). Renamed the default data set (aaauuugghh!!) # to try to keep a consistent naming scheme. Worried about # non-normalized angles in data sets (i.e. are they correct?) # 8/17/95 Changed comments for Morro, California. # 8/17/95 Changed comments for Seattle to include source info. # 8/16/95 Added constituents for the following cities, donated by # Frank Smith, frank@nwra.com: Seattle; San Diego; Aberdeen, # Washington; San Francisco; Astoria, Oregon; Juneau. # # # harmonics.canadian # # # CHANGELOG # --------- # 1999-12-15 Installed patch from Peter Galbraith to correct some # bad coordinates on the eastern side. # 1999-10-03 Changed latitude of BAMFIELD to match Bamfield in # the main harmonics file. Thanks to tsuga@infoserve.net for noticing # that its location was bogus. # 1997-11-27 Updated all obsolete timezones, I hope. # 1996-12-30 Changed timezone specs that were broken by zoneinfo upgrades. # 1996-08-16 Globally added units to DATUM line in support of v1.5 # units conversions. # 1996-04-07 Fixed a bunch of time zones. # 1996-04-06 Added the rest of the data sets from Jean-Pierre (parts # 2 through 7) for a total of 1014 data sets. Ran scripts. Made # manual fixes where needed (VALEUR!). Time zones need work. # 1996-04-06 Ran script to correct all coordinates -- minutes had # been incorrectly converted to fractional degrees. Changed the # following to US/Eastern: Coffin Pt; Garnet Pt. Changed the # following back to Canada/Atlantic: Long Island; East Quoddy Head; # West Newdy Quoddy. # 1996-04-04 Added more data sets from Jean-Pierre (part1). # 1996-04-04 Changed to US/Eastern: *QUODDY*, *LUBEC*, CUTLER, LONG # ISLAND # 1996-04-03 DWF global-replace time zones, add boilerplate comments, # L2 epochs typo 1 33.1 --> 133.1. Eastport, Maine time zone changed # to :US/Eastern (meridian is still -04:00). # 1996-04-03 File created by Jean-Pierre Lapointe # (alupien@musicm.mcgill.ca) with 168 data sets. # # # harmonics.japan # # # The basic data here is supposedly identical to that in "Tidal # Harmonic Constants Tables, Japanese Coast, Pub. No. 742" with an # additional significant figure. # # The boilerplate on Pub. 742 translates approximately as: # # If calculated results or software based on this publication is # distributed to others at a profit, approval must be obtained from # the Maritime Safety Agency. # # XTide is free software (see GNU Public License) and you are warned # not to use it in potentially unsafe ways. Despite that, Toru Suzuki # obtained approval for distribution of the original data set with # XTide. The equally redundant approval for Ed's corrected data # unfortunately went into a black hole, causing two years of downtime. # # # CHANGELOG # --------- # 1999-05-23 Installed corrected data from Ed Wallner -- epochs # converted from kappa to kappa prime. Updated zoneinfo ID :Japan to # :Asia/Tokyo. # 1997-02-03 Modified meridian/time zone of Kurile Islands. This is # not a political statement, I'm just doing what my atlas says. # 1997-02-02 Original file created by Toru Suzuki # (cm30305@shiho.tokyo-u-fish.ac.jp) with 714 data sets # # ------ comments from Ed's file -------- # # HARMJPN.KPP # # This file contains the harmonic constants for Japanese ports given in # xtide/harmonics.japan by Toru Suzuki with the epochs converted to kappa # prime or g (modified Greenwich epoch.) (See HARMJPN.TXT for his # introductory material. The original epochs were kappa (local) not kappa # prime as stated.) # # The basic data here is identical to that in "Tidal Harmonic Constants # Tables, Japanese Coast, Pub. No. 742" with an additional significant # figure. # # A few minor modifications have been made to the xtide format: a carriage # return has been added to the line feed at the end of a record and commas # in the locations of Higasi-Narima and Nezumi Sima and in the Data line of # about 20 other ports have been changed to "-" or "/". # # Ed Wallner - 1997 JUN 13 # # -------- comments from Toru's original file ---------- # # Definitions and constants for xtide: Japan and Kurile Islands # Created by Toru Suzuki (cm30305@shiho.tokyo-u-fish.ac.jp) # # These data were obtained from the Japan Oceanographic Data Center # (No.97001 for JODC reference). For more information, contact to: # # Japan Oceanographic Data Center # 5-3-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104, Japan # Telephone: +81-3-3451-4295 # mailto: mail@jodc.jhd.go.jp # http://www.jodc.jhd.go.jp/ # # # harmonics.admiralty # # # CHANGELOG # --------- # 2000-01-25 Updated Antarctic time zones: Port Martin to PMT-10, Ross # Island to McMurdo time, Mawson to Mawson time, Davis to Davis time, # Casey to Casey time. # 1997-09-11 Cleaned up some bogus or null coordinates, clarified # some location names. # 1997-08-03 Replaced speeds, equilibrium arguments, and node factors # with congen output spanning the epoch from 1970 to 2037. # 1997-07-12 Updated Bugatti Reef. # 1997-06-01 Added 2 more data sets from Ed Wallner. # 1997-05-12 Integrated 345 data sets from Ed Wallner. Where existing # data differs, renamed to (2). # 1997-02-06 Placed Cape Deliverance in Papua New Guinea. Placed # North Barnard Island off Australia, although not sure that it's # Queensland. # 1997-02-02 DWF touched up work-in-progress delivered by Robert Chalmers # (robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au) -- removed nulled-out data set, # fixed time zones, added units, fixed names. Some locations are # mere guesses since they lack coordinates. # 1996-05-16 Distilled constituents from harmonics.canadian. # # # harmonics.anchorage # # CHANGELOG # --------- # 2000-04-02 New datum. # 1997-07-31 Replaced speeds, equilibrium arguments, and node factors # with congen output spanning the epoch from 1970 to 2037. # 1997-07-06 Created by DWF using information from Ed Wallner and # data from harmonics, harmonics.canadian, and harmonics.japan. At # this point I don't yet have generation of arguments and node factors # from scratch working properly, so I manipulated existing data to # produce this file. As a result, only years from 1994 to 2025 are # supported, since that is all that harmonics.canadian and # harmonics.japan currently support. # #