BANGOR

Station Information

Station ID: 1856
Latitude: 54.66475
Longitude: -5.669472
Coastline code: 170
Station code: 281
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Time span of data: 1994 – 2016
Completeness (%): 74
Date of last update: 28 Jun 2017

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.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: bang

Station Documentation

Link to RLR 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 2012-05-17

Bangor has been made a RLR station. Primary benchmark TGBM is 5.592m above
TGZ (ACD). RLR factor is 4.908m.

Documentation added 2014-07-02

Problems at the gauge caused by blocked pipes this was investigated when general maintenance was carried out on 11.9.13 the site was also levelled on this visit.

Documentation added 2015-05-06

During January and February 2014 readings were 20-40mm high in places. From May onwards there were problems with the channels blocking. TGI were at site 14.05.14 for general maintenance with a compressor change and to clear the blocking channels. They were there again on 12.08.14 to dive to clear the channels. No levelling was carried out during 2014.

Data Authority

Horizon House
Deanery Road
BS1 5AH
Bristol