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Historical sea level observations from Alicante, Spain (1870-2018)

A set of historical tide gauge sea level records from Alicante (Spanish Mediterranean coast) have been recovered from logbooks stored at the Spanish National Geographical Institute (IGN). Sea level measurements have been digitised, quality-controlled and merged into two consistent sea level time series. Vertical references among instruments benchmarks have been derived from high precision vertical levelling surveys. Earlier observations are daily averages and more recent data are hourly values. The observations are from 7 different tide gauge records in Alicante outer harbour (Alicante I) and five tide gauge series in Alicante inner harbour (Alicante II). The sea level record in Alicante starts in 1870 with daily averaged values until the 1920s and hourly afterwards, and is still in operation, thus representing the longest tide gauge sea level time series in the Mediterranean Sea. The sea level at Alicante I has been measured by tide pole, floating gauge, mechanical recorder, digital recorder and since 2014 by radar gauge. The sea level at Alicante II has been measured by floating gauge, digital recorder and from 2014 onwards by radar gauge. This scarcity of long-term sea-level observations, as well as their uneven geographical distribution is a major challenge for climate studies that address, for example, the quantification of mean sea-level rise at centennial time scales, the accurate assessment of sea-level acceleration or the long-term changes in sea-level extremes that are vital for coastal risk assessments. This dataset represents an additional effort of sea-level data archaeology and aims at preserving the historical scientific heritage that has been up to now stored in old archives in non-electronic format. The research was partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. A further series was rescued from Santander under the same initiative.

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048historicalalicantesealevel
Date (Publication)
2022-02-16
Date (Creation)
2020-06-03
Date (Revision)
2020-09-08
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7024
Owner
  Balearic Islands University, Department of Physics - Unknown ( Unknown )
Fac. de Ciencias. U. de Baleares , Edificio Mateu Orfila , Carretera de Valldemossa Km 7.5 , Palma de Mallorca , Balearic Islands , 07122 , Spain
+34 971 17 30 09
http://dfs.uib.es/
Originator
  Balearic Islands University, Department of Physics - Unknown ( Unknown )
Fac. de Ciencias. U. de Baleares , Edificio Mateu Orfila , Carretera de Valldemossa Km 7.5 , Palma de Mallorca , Balearic Islands , 07122 , Spain
+34 971 17 30 09
http://dfs.uib.es/
Custodian
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - Director
Joseph Proudman Building , 6 Brownlow Street , Liverpool , Merseyside , L3 5DA , United Kingdom
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/
Distributor
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - 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
SeaDataNet PDV
  • Sea level
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
Vertical Coverages
  • unknown
INSPIRE themes
  • Elevation
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints
Data are freely available
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
No conditions apply
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Elevation
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Geographic identifier
Mediterranean Sea

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Geographic identifier
Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Geographic identifier
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Begin date
1870-07-01
End date
2018-12-31
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
  • Text or Plaintext ()

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/9f688495-bc84-775e-e053-6c86abc0e04b

Marcos Moreno M., Puyol B., Amores A., Perez Gomez B., Fraile M.A., Talke S.A. (2020). Historical sea level observations from Alicante, Spain (1870-2018). British Oceanographic Data Centre, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, UK. doi: 10/d8gk

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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.
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Yes
Statement

This dataset was aggregated by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record from historical analogue data held in the archive of the Spanish National Geographical Institute (IGN) in Madrid (Spain). The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for long-term archive and data publication in the BODC Published Data Library.

Instrument(s) used to collect data: sea level recorders.

File identifier
0d90d5984c695a87836ad205447c0b2c XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2022-03-02T12:41:14
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version
3.1.1
Point of contact
  British Oceanographic Data Centre - 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/
 
 

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