GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
General | |
GLOSS number | 241 |
Station name | Newlyn |
Country | U.K. |
Time zone | 000E, GMT |
Latitude (+ve N) | 50.1 |
Longitude (+ve E) | -5.55 |
Ocean | Atlantic |
Observation period(s) | 1915 - 1984 Float/stilling well 1983 - Bubbler gauge |
Responsible country | U.K. |
Authority responsible for tide gauge | Tide Gauge Inspectorate, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, 6 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L3 5DA, UK |
GLOSS contact | UK |
Committed to GLOSS | Yes |
Operational | Yes |
Location map | |
Instrumentation | |
Float | Yes |
Pressure | Yes |
Bubbler | Yes |
Acoustic | No |
Radar | Yes |
Data | |
Digital data | Yes |
Additional parameters | Sea temperature |
Data acquisition rate | Recording at 15 minute intervals; filtered to hourly heights. |
Fast delivery data at UHSLC | |
High frequency data at BODC | |
High frequency data at UHSLC | |
Data held at national organisation | Yes |
Real-time data available | Yes |
Additional parameters (real-time) | Sea temperature |
Benchmarks | |
Tide gauge benchmarks | Ordnance Survey Benchmark bolt inside tide gauge hut, adjacent to stilling well. Ordnance Survey grid reference: SW 4677 2856. |
Benchmark relationships | TGZ = Admiralty Chart Datum (ACD) TGZ = 3.05m below Ordnance Datum Newlyn (ODN) TGZ = 7.8012m below TGBM (from 1988 onwards) |
Auxiliary benchmarks | AUX 1: Flush bracket 1565 on NW face of South Pier wall 17.8m SW of tidal observatory. OS grid reference: SW 4673 2851 AUX 2: Flush bracket 1520 on NW face of wall on SE side of South Pier Road. OS grid reference: SW 4659 2841 |
Data at PSMSL | |
Annual MSL (RLR) data | |
Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
MSL method | Doodson X0 filter |
PSMSL code | 202 |
Other relevant codes | UHSLC 294 |
Additional information | |
Nearest Met. station | St. Mawgan |
Last updated | 2005-02-16 |