Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

12 Aug 2019

BIRKENHEAD (ALFRED DOCK)

Station Information

Station ID: 765
Latitude: 53.4
Longitude: -3.016667
Coastline code: 170
Station code: 201
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Time span of RLR data: 1955 – 1972
RLR completeness (%): 94
Time span of metric data: 1955 – 1991
Metric completeness (%): 49
Date of last update: 25 Jun 1992

Green Arrow: Current Station
Yellow Marker: Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker: Neighbouring Metric 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

Plot of monthly mean sea level data at BIRKENHEAD (ALFRED DOCK).

Link to larger image of monthly data plot.
Download monthly mean sea level data.

Plot of annual mean sea level data at BIRKENHEAD (ALFRED DOCK).

Link to larger image of annual data plot.
Download annual mean sea level 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 (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: LIVE
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: live

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Birkenhead(Alfred D)170/201 RLR(1964) is 15.0m below TGBM SJ3268 9011

Documentation added 1994-09-21

Lege gauge mounted over stilling well and maintained by POL

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 2015-07-23

The TGBM SJ3268 9011 is flush bracket 3978 which is listed as SJ 3267 9011 in the Ordnance Survey database. We believe this is a typing error in the OS database. Whichever SJ location is correct, the same flush bracket is being referred to.

Data Authority

British Oceanographic Data Centre
National Oceanography Centre
Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool
L3 5DA