mean high water

The average height of all high waters recorded at a given place over a 19-year period.

Related terms:

• mean higher high water
• mean diurnal high-water inequality
• mean high-water neaps
• mean high-water springs
• mean low water
• tropic high-water inequality
• high-water quadrature
• tropic higher-high-water interval
• mean high-water lunitidal interval
• high-water stand