Indian spring low water

From Glossary of Meteorology

A tidal low water datum, designed for regions of mixed tides, that is depressed below mean sea level by the sum of the amplitudes of the principal semidiurnal lunar and solar tides and the principal diurnal tides (M2 + S2 + K1 + O1); originally developed for parts of the Indian Ocean.

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