zeta.net
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The file shows 21 readouts from an ocean circulation model program.
The area being models is the Miocene seaway.  A marine tidal-dominated
seaway that formed in the foreland basin of the Alps approximately 20
million years ago.  Each time slice with the orthagonal slicer
represents 50 minutes of tidal circulation output from the model.  The
model visualizes surface elevation (tidal heights) in metres over a
palaeobathymetry where each node is separated by 12.4km.  A
progressive walk through the model shows the initial (input) tide for
2m being enhanced as it enters the seaway from the south and then,
because of the narrowing of the seaway to the north (and directional
change) near Geneva, the tide becomes severely dampened, so that only
very low tides are generated in Switzerland (area to the east of the
bend).  The abundance of tidal deposits in Switzerland supports the
hypothesis that there was a tidal input (and therefore an open ocean)
into the basin from the northeast.  This is contrary to the earlier
reconstructions for that area.  Additional model runs with a tide from
the east support this hypothesis.

trange.net
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The second visualization is simply the calculated tidal range (in cm)
for the model bathymetry over a complete tidal cycle.  It also shows
how the tides are dampened as they enter into Switzerland.  The data is
in TRANGE.AVS and visualized with trange.net and trange.fld.