Behavior of Tides of San Francisco Bay

I'm not going to not write much about these graphs.  I had assumed that as one moves into the Bay, tide range would be attenuated.  So I was surprized to read the following bit from An Introduction to the San Francisco Estuary by Andrew Cohen and Jack Laws:

In the northern reach the tidal range (the difference in height between high water and low water) drops with distance from the ocean, from a mean range of about five-and-a-half feet at the Golden Gate to only three feet at Sacramento.    In contrast, in the southern reach’s more enclosed basin the tides cause the water to slosh back and forth like water in a bathtub, amplifying the range at the southern end to eight-and-one-half feet.

I wanted to explore this, so I graphed several sites in the Northern Reach, and five in the Southern Reach.  These are a work in progress.

The predictions that are graphed here are from Xtide: www.flaterco.com



In the legend, stations are listed  in order from the Entrance  to the most distant. 

"San Francisco" is the Fort Point station.