PORTLAND

WARNING: METRIC STATION
THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA.
USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.

Station Information

Station ID:	251
Latitude:	50.566667
Longitude:	-2.433333
Coastline code:	170
Station code:	151
Country:	UNITED KINGDOM
Time span of data:	1923 – 1964
Completeness (%):	7
Date of last update:	01 Jan 1980

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

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Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: weym

Station Documentation

Documentation added 1994-07-21

An "Admiralty" stilling well gauge operated from 1852 to about 1930,
and a Gents gauge from June 1961 to 1964. In addition (although data
not with PSMSL), there was another Gents gauge between 1966 and 1972
and a portable Munro between December 1972 and 1978.
Portland is an historic station last data 1964

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/

Data Authority

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

Data

Data Notes

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