SHEERNESS

Station Information

Station ID:	3
Latitude:	51.45
Longitude:	0.75
Coastline code:	170
Station code:	101
Country:	UNITED KINGDOM
Time span of data:	1832 – 2009
Completeness (%):	54
Frequency Code:	24
Date of last update:	07 Jun 2010

Green Arrow:	Current Station
Yellow Marker:	Neighbouring RLR Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Tide Gauge Data

Download metric sea level data. Use only with extreme caution. NOTE: If some of the data are red in the plots above, the 'flag for attention' is set. Please see the documentation below.

Additional Data Sources

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: SHEE

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 2001Jan02 :
Recent work on vertical land movements in the UK can be found from
the University of Nottingham web site:
http://ukcogr.iessg.nottingham.ac.uk/~eosi/
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 11-JUN-91 :
Sheerness 170/101 RLR(1975) is 11.6m below BM TQ9080 7549
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 15-JUL-92 :
FOR 1838-52 AND 1951-52 FCODE=C
=========================== BENCHMARK INFORMATION UPDATE ADDED 12-JUL-93 :
Sheerness 170/101 RLR(1975) is 11.6m below BM TQ9080 7549
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 20-JUL-94 :
Sheerness was the site of the first self-recording tide gauge (see
Tides, Surges and Mean Sea-Level by D.T.Pugh, 1987. Wiley).
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 20-SEP-94 :
Details are obscure until a Lege gauge was installed in August
1955 - 1832-1955 records are held by POL but gauge make is not
known. The Lege was replaced by a Munro in November 1962, moved
to a new site in April 1963 and again in May 1973, replaced by
an Ott in 1980, an Aanderaa pressure system in July 1983, and
an "A Class" bubbler gauge from October 1986.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 2000Apr26 :
Values for 1998- appear slightly higher than anticipated from inspection of
neighbouring records - cause may be instrumental.

Data Authority

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory

Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street

Liverpool

L3 5DA

UNITED KINGDOM