太たい陽よう潮ちょう

noun

solar tide

Technical term in oceanography and astronomy for tides caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

• 太たい陽よう潮ちょうは月つきによる潮ちょう汐せきと比くらべて小ちいさい。

  The solar tide is smaller compared to the tide caused by the moon.