Scanned images of historical (earliest data from 1870) tide gauge analogue charts and data ledgers from around the UK

• Published by: Marine Environmental Data & Information Network
• Last updated: 10 July 2024
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Summary

The dataset comprises scanned images of historical analogue charts and data ledgers from eight tide gauge sites around the UK. The sites include: Sheerness, Belfast, and several sites around Liverpool managed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company namely, Eastham, Gladstone, Hilbre, Princes Pier, Tranmere and Waterloo. The Sheerness ledger data represents some of the earliest records of sea level data in the UK and cover the periods - January 1870 to December 1881, July 1882 to October 1894 and December 1929 to April 1941. Data availability for the other sites are: Belfast analogue charts - 27 November 1901 to 24 May 1902; Princes Pier ledgers: - 1941 to 1950, 1951 to 1960 and 1961 to 1970; Eastham, Gladstone, Hilbre, Princes Pier, Tranmere and Waterloo ledgers: - 1982 to 1988. The data recorded in some of the ledgers also describe meteorological measurements for example, air pressure, air temperature, wind speed and direction, and precipitation and evaporation. Funding to rescue these historical sea level data came from the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) and the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC).These images have now been added to the National Oceanographic Database and are freely available to registered users (subject to licence agreement).

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2021-12-20
• Access contraints: Data are freely available to all following agreement to the terms and conditions of a Data Licence
• Harvest GUID: ba82e358e28a50f6b4cb65ae8f8fa9b9
• Extent: Latitude: 55.00° to 51.00°
• Extent: Longitude: -6.00° to 1.00°
• Dataset reference date: 2018-05-18 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2011-05-24 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2018-02-09 (revision)
• Frequency of update: asNeeded
• Responsible party: British Oceanographic Data Centre (owner, originator, custodian, distributor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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