GLOSS Station Handbook – Lerwick
The GLOSS Station Handbook is currently being re-designed and upgraded.
Until a new version is available, the tide gauge station list below from the last version of the Handbook provides links to further details about each tide gauge in the GLOSS Core Network. Click column headings to sort the station list table. Click the GLOSS number buttons to view the station information.
Station information
| General | |
|---|---|
| Gloss number | 236 |
| Station name | Lerwick |
| Country | U.K. |
| Time zone | 000E, GMT |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 60.15 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | -1.13333 |
| Ocean | Atlantic |
| Observation periods | 1957- |
| Responsible country | U.K. |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | National Oceanography Centre, Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L3 5DA, UK |
| GLOSS contact | UK |
| Committed to GLOSS | Yes |
| Operational | Yes |
| Location map | |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | No |
| Pressure | Yes |
| Bubbler | Yes |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | Yes |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Data acquisition rate | Recording at 15 minute intervals, filtered to hourly heights. |
| Fast delivery data at UHSLC | Data 293 File format |
| High frequency data at BODC | Data 236 Document 45000 Document 83204 |
| High frequency data at UHSLC | Data 293a Document 293a File format |
| Data held at national organisation | Yes |
| Real-time data available | Yes |
| Additional parameters (real-time) | None |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmark | Ordnance Survey Benchmark bolt on breakwater wall. Ordnance Survey Grid Reference: HU 4783 4129 |
| Benchmark relationships | Tide Gauge Zero = Admiralty Chart Datum (ACD) Tide Gauge Zero = 1.22m below local Ordnance Datum Tide Gauge Zero = 4.57m below Tide Gauge Benchmark (from 1989 onwards) |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | AUX 1: On SW face (south angle) of Queens Hotel. OS Grid Reference HU 4784 4125 AUX 2: On N face (north west angle) of Lerwick Parish Church. OS Grid Reference HU 4777 4110 Rivet: Set in concrete on north east angle of tide gauge hut. |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | RLR 830 |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
| MSL method | Doodson X0 filter |
| PSMSL code | 830 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 293 |
| Additional information | |
| Nearest Met. station | Sumburgh |
| Last updated | 5 December 1997 |
Location map
Lerwick, U.K.
Real time data plot
Lerwick, U.K.
