Maskelyne sea level observations from St. Helena in 1761

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16 February 2025
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Summary

This dataset contains the measurements of sea level made by Nevil Maskelyne on the Island of St. Helena from 12 November to 22 December 1761, as published in his Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society paper of 1761 (https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1761.0100). The data values presented were transposed from the information in Maskelyne's original paper into the data file included with this submission by the authors of this dataset. The data have been subjected to various types of quality control by the authors including, in particular, consistency of the tidal content of the sea level time series with modern expectations, and the data have been studied within a modern reanalysis (submitted for publication). The purpose of this dataset is to make the Maskelyne measurements more accessible in an electronic form for the benefit of future researchers.

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Published dataset - doi:10.5285/e66db85a-eaae-6665-e053-6c86abc0bfb9 N/A 16 February 2025 Not available
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Added to data.gov.uk
2025-02-11
Access contraints
Data are freely available
Harvest GUID
c240f36f1a42506c9f6f30a71009c90b
Extent
Latitude: -15.90° to °
Longitude: -5.70° to -5.00°
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Dataset reference date
2025-02-11 (publication)
2022-06-13 (creation)
2022-06-23 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
National Oceanography Centre (Liverpool) (owner, originator); British Oceanographic Data Centre (custodian, distributor)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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