GLOSS Station Handbook – Newlyn
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 | 241 |
| Station name | Newlyn |
| Country | U.K. |
| Time zone | 000E, GMT |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 50.1 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | -5.55 |
| Ocean | Atlantic |
| Observation periods | 1915 - 1984 Float/stilling well 1983 - Bubbler gauge |
| 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 | Yes |
| Pressure | Yes |
| Bubbler | Yes |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | Yes |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Additional parameters | Sea temperature |
| Data acquisition rate | Recording at 15 minute intervals; filtered to hourly heights. |
| Fast delivery data at UHSLC | Data 294 File format |
| High frequency data at BODC | Data 241 Document 30932 Document 83297 |
| High frequency data at UHSLC | Data 294a Document 294a 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 inside tide gauge hut, adjacent to stilling well. Ordnance Survey grid reference: SW 4677 2856. |
| Benchmark relationships | TGZ = Admiralty Chart Datum (ACD) TGZ = 3.05m below Ordnance Datum Newlyn (ODN) TGZ = 7.8012m below TGBM (from 1988 onwards) |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | AUX 1: Flush bracket 1565 on NW face of South Pier wall 17.8m SW of tidal observatory. OS grid reference: SW 4673 2851 AUX 2: Flush bracket 1520 on NW face of wall on SE side of South Pier Road. OS grid reference: SW 4659 2841 |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | RLR 202 |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
| MSL method | Doodson X0 filter |
| PSMSL code | 202 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 294 |
| Additional information | |
| Nearest Met. station | St. Mawgan |
| Last updated | 16 February 2005 |
Location map
Newlyn, U.K.
Real time data plot
Newlyn, U.K.
