466777c48b585bcbbc064e21516de0c7
English
dataset
Polly HadÅžiabdic
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Head of the BODC Requests Team
Joseph Proudman Building
6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 5DA
United Kingdom
enquiries@bodc.ac.uk
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
pointOfContact
2018-05-22T14:23:55
MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
Version 2.3.8
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
OGP
Scanned images of tide gauge charts from Bowling, River Clyde, 1888-1938
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048bowlingcharts
2018-02-06
publication
2017-03-09
creation
2018-02-08
revision
EDMED6626
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
The dataset consists of 2580 tiff images of tide gauge charts from Bowling, River Clyde. The images were taken from annual bound volumes of tide gauge charts (~1 page per week, 52 pages per volume). A typical volume measures 37 x 34 x 3.5 cm and pages are single sided. The ledgers for Bowling begin in 1888 and end in 1952, but under this project, only the charts up until 04/01/1939 were photographed. The trace on the original charts was generated by a float tide gauge. The float inside a stilling-well was connected by a wire run over pulleys to a pen that moved up and down as the tide rose and fell. The images were generated by a commercial scanning organisation (TownsWeb Archiving Ltd) using a planetary overhead book scanner. In July 2016 The Peel Group Ltd. (Glasgow) approached BODC to donate their tidal archive, due to office redevelopment. The archive consists of ledgers of tide gauge charts (345 annual bound volumes) and handwritten ledgers (91 bound books) from several locations along the Clyde, with the earliest record beginning in 1841 from Glasgow Harbour. Later that year BODC received a grant from the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) to photograph a selection of the ledgers. MEDIN released these funds to support small Data Archiving Projects that increase access to industry marine data. Ledgers also exist for Broomielaw, Dalmuir, Gourock, Govan Wharf, Greenock, Partick Wharf Glasgow, Queen's Dock Entrance Glasgow and Rothesay Dock. Most begin in the late 19th Century and run to the mid-20th century. It is hoped that these will be digitised in the future, subject to funding.
Unknown
Peel Ports Group Ltd
Unknown
+44 (0)151 949 6000
Maritime Centre
Liverpool
L21 1lA
United Kingdom
Callum.McFadden@peelports.com
https://www.peelports.com/
originator
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Director
Joseph Proudman Building
6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 5DA
United Kingdom
enquiries@bodc.ac.uk
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
custodian
asNeeded
Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
MEDIN metadata record availability
2012-01-11
revision
unknown
Vertical Coverages
2013-02-06
revision
Sea level
SeaDataNet PDV
2018-04-05
revision
Elevation
INSPIRE themes
2009-07-31
revision
No conditions apply
otherRestrictions
Data are freely available
English
oceans
elevation
-4.494
-4.494
55.932
55.932
1888-10-06
1939-01-04
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Director
Joseph Proudman Building
6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L3 5DA
United Kingdom
enquiries@bodc.ac.uk
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/
distributor
dataset
This dataset was created by scanning tide gauge charts donated to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) by The Peel Group Ltd. (Glasgow). The dataset was then ingested into the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). BODC have not quality controlled (QC) the data within the images but have performed QC on the image files, including checking the TIFF metadata tags using DPF Manager.
Instrument(s) used to collect data: sea level recorders.