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Historic sea level records in the Thames Estuary, UK, 1911 - 1995

This dataset contains high and low water values manually digitised from historic hand-written tabulated ledgers, from the Port of London Authority (PLA). The dataset contains 463 years of data, from across 15 tide gauge sites along the Thames Estuary (bounding box = -0.3159W, 51.3914N, 1.3797E, 51.8428N), for the period 1911 to 1995. When these historic records are combined with digital records available from the PLA since 1995, the new sea level time-series spans the 109-year period from 1911 to 2019. London is one of the world’s most important coastal cities and is located around the Thames Estuary. Quantifying changes in sea levels in the Thames Estuary over the 20th century and early part of the 21st century is vital to inform future management of flood risk in London. This dataset is of importance for ongoing monitoring of mean sea-level rise, and changes in tidal range and extreme sea levels in the Thames Estuary. The project was led by the Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton and the Environment Agency, with contributions from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemunde and the National Oceanography Centre. The study contributes to the objectives of UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) project E-Rise: Earliest detection of sea-level rise accelerations to inform lead time to upgrade/replace coastal flood defence infrastructure (NE/P009069/1; I.D.H.).

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Alternate title
British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_thames_tide
Date (Publication)
2022-02-18
Date (Creation)
2020-12-14
Date (Revision)
2021-06-24
Identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7082
Owner
  University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science - Unknown ( Unknown )
National Oceanography Centre, European Way , Southampton , Hampshire , SO14 3ZH , United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 2011
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
Originator
  University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science - Unknown ( Unknown )
National Oceanography Centre, European Way , Southampton , Hampshire , SO14 3ZH , United Kingdom
+44 (0)23 8059 2011
http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/
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
MEDIN metadata record availability
  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
INSPIRE themes
  • Elevation
SeaDataNet PDV
  • Sea level
Vertical Coverages
  • unknown
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
North Sea

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Geographic identifier
Thames Estuary

Date (Revision)
2021-10-28

Begin date
1911-01-01
End date
1995-12-31
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace
OGP
Distribution format
  • Delimited ()

  • Image ()

  • Text or Plaintext ()

OnLine resource
Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b66afb2c-cd53-7de9-e053-6c86abc0d251

Haigh I.D., Inayatillah A., Brand J.H., Francis K., Mortley A., Fantuzzi L., Palmer E., Miller C., Hogarth P. (2021). Historic sea level records in the Thames Estuary, UK, 1911 - 1995 NERC EDS British Oceanographic Data Centre NOC. doi: 10/gj89

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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 contributes to the objectives of UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) project E-Rise: Earliest detection of sea-level rise accelerations to inform lead time to upgrade/replace coastal flood defence infrastructure (NE/P009069/1; I.D.H.) using software developed for the project and following in-house quality control procedures. 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
4315c545f6fd50cfaddfe3e0432b68fe XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2022-02-18T11:20:57
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) ( 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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