neap tide , auch: neap

With a neap tide, our chances should be pretty good.

"The neap tide should expose a bit more of it, though."

Neap tides occur during the first and last quarters of the moon's phases.

The neap tide phenomenon occurs twice a month when the moon is near its first or last quarter.

On our west coast the neap tides ran as high as sixty feet.

It was almost a neap tide, though this was the fourth quarter of the moon.

The species was found to be more abundant in trawl catches during the night and on neap tides.

Sometimes there are really low tides called neap tides.

On this day and the next the ocean experienced a neap tide, and failed to rise.

The next low tide will come about daybreak and, if my observations are correct, it should be a neap tide.

Spawning occurs in the last quarter of the lunar cycle, during neap tides, on rocky shores.

Low amplitude tides are known as neap tides.

The approximately fifteen-day rhythm of spring and neap tides is of vital importance to some creatures.

During the neap tide, when the tidal current strength is weakest, smaller quantities of finer grains are deposited.

There is only one known potable (drinkable) water source, a brackish spring, exposed briefly at neap tide.

During neap tide, with tidal range of 2.98 m, the highly turbid zone coverage drops to 15,000 km.

The position of the sun could amplify them into spring tides, or restrain them as neap tides.

A tidal bundle is a sedimentary structure that forms in tidal areas as a result of spring and neap tides.

Every August, the Chausey Regatta takes place on the first weekend of the neap tide.

At neap tides, this interaction is less pronounced, without tides surges would occur more randomly, approximately every 12 hours.

The Dutch River was difficult to navigate, made more hazardous by shoals, three awkward bridges, and low water levels at neap tides.

An arrow on the tidal chart indicates the direction and the average flow speed (usually in knots) for spring and neap tides.

In a neap tide the countering tug of the sun counteracts the pull of the moon, and water levels deviate less.

The barges were floated into place at neap tide, and the spring tide used to lift the sections above the height of the piers.

Half Moon is a lunar phase coinciding with neap tides, which are often easier for seafarers than spring tides.