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IN small semiclosed seas, tides are excited through their open boundaries by the tides in the more extensive bodies with which they ‘co-oscillate’1–5. Nevertheless the energy dissipated in such seas is not necessarily advected from and lost by, the larger system5.
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FILLOUX, J. Gravitational driving and energy of Adriatic tides. Nature 252, 566–569 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252566a0
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