called "neap tides". The Moon therefore influences the tides due to gravity, but the Sun's gravity and the Earth's rotation also modify the behavior of the tides.

Members of the community have been stumped by the recent low tides along the Peconic Bay shore as winds whip through Long ...

During the full moon and new moon, when the moon, Earth, and sun are aligned ... when the moon is in quadrature with the sun, ...

The sun, moon, and Earth line up together (during new ... causing low high tides and high low tides, also called neap tides. How does the rotation of the Earth cause tides? The Earth’s rotation ...

During a full moon or a new moon the difference between the high and low tide is at its greatest. This is because when the Earth, the Sun and the Moon are in a line, the gravitational pull is at ...