Based on the movement of the amphidromic rotary standing wave system in the Northeast Pacific (situated between Hawaii and our West Coast), which of the following locations along the West Coast will a given tide arrive FIRST on any given day? Southern California, Northern California, Oregon, Washington, or Alaska? Hint: Think about the rotary motion of the tide wave along the West Coast: does the tide wave move clockwise or counterclock along the coast? Then consider the timing of that tide for the various locations up and down the coast.



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