Belgian coastal area

Sea level

The aim of this program is to provide tidal data for the calibration of several hydrodynamical models developed at MUMM. These models cover the entire North Sea and are used to simulate impacts of pollutants in the marine environment, to predict storm surges, to study the influence of sand and gravel extraction, predict the displacement of oil slicks, etc. The data set includes the data from 36 moorings of autonomous recording tide gauges. Most of the data series cover a period of approximately 42 days. The recording interval was set at 30 minutes. The sea level data have been filtered for waves, taking the average from 120 samples spread over 1 minute. The station near the light vessel 'Westhinder' (51° 23'00sN, 02° 26'20sE) covers 28 periods from 1981 to 1986. The data processing consists of adding the exact time stamp, calculation of sea level from pressure, temperature and salinity, correction for the barometric pressure, interpolation of small gaps and harmonic analysis

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Belgian Marine Data Centre
Vautierstraat 29
Brussels

1000
Belgium