{"thcode":62,"term":{"code":"WC-643","name":"Tidal Flow","parent":"WC-627","scope":"Hydroform: Advective flow resulting from of tidal movement, often amplified in velocity when moving through an inlet, pass or channel. ..."},"uf":[],"bt":[{"code":"WC-627","name":"Current","parent":"WC-C012","scope":"Hydroform Class: Water that is undergoing coherent mass movement, either as laminar or turbulent flow, relative to surrounding waters and fixed structural, landform or geologic features. ..."},{"code":"WC-C012","name":"Hydroform","parent":"WC-C001","scope":null},{"code":"WC-C001","name":"Water Column","parent":"root","scope":null},{"code":"root","name":"CMECS","parent":null,"scope":"Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard: Category terms encompassing waters from the head of tide or inland incursion of ocean salinity to the splash zone of the coasts to the deepest portions of the oceans and the deep waters of the Great Lakes."}],"nt":[{"code":"WC-664","name":"Diurnal Tidal Flow","parent":"WC-643","scope":"Hydroform Type: Tidal ocean waters where, due to the geometry of the ocean basin and obstructions presented by land, a second daily tide is suppressed, resulting in a single or diurnal tide regime with one high and one low tide per day, as in the Gulf of Mexico."},{"code":"WC-665","name":"Mixed Semi-diurnal Tidal Flow","parent":"WC-643","scope":"Hydroform Type: Tidal ocean waters where the amplitudes of two semi-diurnal tides are unequal, resulting in a stronger and a weaker high and low tide each day."},{"code":"WC-666","name":"Semi-diurnal Tidal Flow","parent":"WC-643","scope":"Hydroform Type: Tidal ocean waters where the gravitational action of the sun and moon on Earth's oceans create two high and two low tides per day of relatively equal amplitude."}],"rt":[]}