NERC Data Catalogue Service
UK tide gauge network, 1915 onwards
The UK national network of sea level gauges was established after violent storms in the North Sea in 1953 resulted in serious flooding in the Thames Estuary. The data are required for research and operational use and to facilitate specific scientific studies of coastal processes such as tidal response, storm surge behaviour and sea level rise; and for underpinning local and national operational systems such as the Storm Tide Forecasting Service at the Met Office. BODC has a special responsibility for the remote monitoring and retrieval of sea level data from the network. Daily checks are kept on the performance of the gauges and the data are downloaded weekly. These are then routinely processed and quality controlled prior to being made available.
Simple
- Alternate title
- British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048UKTGN
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-05-18
- Date (Creation)
- 2011-05-24
- Date (Revision)
- 2017-03-30
- Identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED4757
Owner
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Unknown
(
Unknown
)
Joseph Proudman Building
,
6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Originator
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Unknown
(
Unknown
)
Joseph Proudman Building
,
6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Custodian
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
,
6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Distributor
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Director
Joseph Proudman Building
,
6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- INSPIRE themes
- Vertical Coverages
- SeaDataNet PDV
- MEDIN metadata record availability
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
- Other constraints
- Data are freely available
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage restrictions are specified in the terms of the licence
- Other constraints
- No conditions apply
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Elevation
- Oceans
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W
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- Geographic identifier
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North Atlantic Ocean
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
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North Sea
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
-
Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
-
Irish Sea
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
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Bristol Channel
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
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Celtic Sea
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Geographic identifier
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English Channel
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-28
- Begin date
- 1915-01-01
- End date
- 2021-12-20 After
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
- OGP
- Distribution format
- OnLine resource
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BODC online data delivery service
National Oceanographic Database data delivery service; pre-filtered for the data collection.
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
- Instrument(s) used to collect data: sea level recorders.
- File identifier
- eea5b7641565562d98fa350b37f5681d XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-12-20T06:31:16
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
- 3.1.1
Point of contact
British Oceanographic Data Centre
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Polly Hadžiabdić
(
Head of the BODC Requests Team
)
Joseph Proudman Building
,
6 Brownlow Street
,
Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L3 5DA
,
United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Overviews
Spatial extent
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S
E
W
Provided by
Associated resources
Not available