EUROPEAN SEA LEVEL OBSERVING SYSTEM 

                                 Station Information Sheet 


 GLOSS Number
 Station name                            Port Ellen (Islay) 
 Country                                 UK
 Time zone                               000E, GMT
 Latitude                                   55.6276 
 Longitude                                  -6.1889 
 Ocean/sea                               Atlantic/ 

 Responsible country                     UK
 Committed to GLOSS                      No
 Operational?                            Yes

 Point of contact                        Lesley Rickards,
                                         British Oceanographic Data Centre
                                         CCMS Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory 
                                          Bidston Observatory 
                                          Birkenhead 
                                          Merseyside 
                                          L43 7RA 
                                         UK
                                         Tel: +44 (0) 151 653 8633
                                         Fax: +44 (0) 151 652 3950
                                         E-mail: ljr@ccms.ac.uk
                                         WWW: http://www.pol.ac.uk/bodc/bodcmain.html


 Authority responsible                   British Oceanographic Data Centre
 for tide gauge                          CCMS Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory,
                                          Bidston Observatory 
                                          Birkenhead 
                                          Merseyside 
                                          L43 7RA 
                                         UK

 Gauge servicing interval                

 Gauge servicing agency                  Serviced by Tide Gauge Inspectorate at CCMS POL

 Observation periods                     1979-80, 1991-

 Gauge type                              pressure transducer + pnuematic bubbler
 Sampling rate                           15 minutes
 Digital data                            Yes
 Real time data                          No
 Storm surge warning gauge               No

 Additional parameters                   
 Any other parameters                   

 MSL method				                  

 Submission to PSMSL                     Yes
 PSMSL data holdings                     
 Other data banks			                  
 Additional information                  


 Tide gauge benchmark description        Bolt SE side Booking Office (NG Co-ords NR 3635 4507)

 Frequency of levelling                  

 Tide gauge zero relative to EUVN        

 Tide gauge zero relative to             TGZ = admiralty chart datum = 0.19m below ODN
 national levelling datum                

 Tide gauge zero relative to             TGZ = 2.839m below TGBM
 tide gauge benchmark                    

 Auxiliary benchmark description         Aux 1 - Rivet on angle of wall NW side of entrance to pier (NG Co-ords NR 3642 4515)

 Permanent GPS within 1 km               No
 EUREF code                              
 Campaign GPS                            

 Geological substrate                    

 Gauge signal likely to                  
 be affected by river
 outflow, density
 changes etc

 Any other information