Japan is the largest market for U.S. forest products.
Therefore, export of wood products to this country is
critical to the economic life of the forest industry in
the U.S. and particularly for the Pacific Northwest.
Hence, economic conditions and developments in Japan may
significantly affect the volume of trade...
Abstract— A highly idealized model of an ocean-fjord system, in which the tide is forced astronomically by the gravitational force of the moon, is used to study effects of localized tidal energy extraction on regional and global tides. The modeled system is energetically complete in the sense that the model...