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.
Dover 170/111 RLR(1984) is 13.8m below TGBMTR3193 4074
Documentation added 1993-03-17
Possible datum shift in RLR record after data gap in the late 1970's.
Documentation added 1993-10-11
1960 values are based on 8 readings a day
Documentation added 1994-07-20
Gauge was originally a Cary-Porter stilling well gauge, replaced by a Lege in July 1959, a Lea in October 1965, a Neyrpic in July 1976, and a Munro/Ott combination in 1978. From March 1986 data have been from a POL-designed potentiometer attached to the stilling well.
Documentation added 1994-09-20
March-December 1959: records unreliable 1976: harbour modifications
Documentation added 1997-07-16
Data revised on receipt of additional TGBM information
Documentation added 2001-01-02
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/
Documentation added 2014-07-02
No data available for Dover 2013 as the primary channel recording ~100m high in places and has been flagged.
Documentation added 2015-05-06
There is no data available for 2014 for Dover readings were erratic with the primary channel being up to 100mm high due to blocking.
Data Authority
British Oceanographic Data Centre National Oceanography Centre Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool L3 5DA