WEST BAY HARBOUR

Station Information

Station ID: 2282
Latitude: 50.708867
Longitude: -2.7641
Coastline code: 170
Station code: 152
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Time span of data: 2008 – 2014
Completeness (%): 70
Date of last update: 28 Sep 2016

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.

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2016-02-03

West Bay Harbour is a new station operated by the Channel Coastal Observatory (CCO) based at NOC Southampton. Instrument type (2008-2011) was a Rosemount WaveRadar REX. The datum of the data was Ordnance Datum Newlyn (ODN). The Primary benchmark TGBM is 3.951m above ODN. Tide Gauge Zero (TGZ) 2.425m below ODN, 0.175m below Admiralty Chart Datum (ACD)and 6,376m below TGBM. Sampling interval is 10mins. This gauge was replaced by a step gauge in March 2011. The RLR diagram is for the step gauge. ACD is 6.201m below TGBM, ODN is 3.951m below TGBM and Tide Gauge Zero (TGZ) is 0.175m below ACD

Data Authority

National Oceanography Centre
Waterfront Campus
European Way
Southampton