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Historical sea level observations from Santander, Spain (1876-1924)

A set of historical tide gauge sea level records from Santander (Northern Spain) have been recovered from logbooks stored at the Spanish National Geographical Institute (IGN). Sea level measurements have been digitised, quality-controlled and merged into a consistent sea level time series. Vertical references among instruments benchmarks have been derived from high precision vertical levelling surveys. The observations were recorded as daily averages and are from three different instruments in two locations in Santander (Spain). The historical sea level record in Santander consists of a daily time series spanning the period 1876-1924 and it is further connected to the modern tide gauge station nearby, ensuring datum continuity up to the present. The data from Santander comes from a floating gauge and then syphon gauges. This scarcity of long-term sea-level observations, as well as their uneven geographical distribution is a major challenge for climate studies that address, for example, the quantification of mean sea-level rise at centennial time scales, the accurate assessment of sea-level acceleration or the long-term changes in sea-level extremes that are vital for coastal risk assessments. This dataset represents an additional effort of sea-level data archaeology and aims at preserving the historical scientific heritage that has been up to now stored in old archives in non-electronic format. The research was partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. A further two series were rescued from Alicante under the same initiative.

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Alternate title

British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048historicalsantandersealevel

Date (Publication)
2022-02-16
Date (Creation)
2020-06-03
Date (Revision)
2020-09-23
Citation identifier
http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7026
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Balearic Islands University, Department of Physics

Unknown

secretari.departament@uib.es

Owner

Balearic Islands University, Department of Physics

Unknown

secretari.departament@uib.es

Originator

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Custodian

British Oceanographic Data Centre

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Distributor
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

SeaDataNet PDV

  • Sea level

Vertical Coverages

  • unknown

MEDIN metadata record availability

  • Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres
  • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network

INSPIRE themes

  • Elevation
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations apply
Other constraints

Data are freely available

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

No conditions apply

Spatial representation type
Text, table
Language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Elevation
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S
E
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Geographic identifier
Bay of Biscay

SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision

Geographic identifier
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision

Begin date
1876-07-01
End date
1928-12-31
Unique resource identifier
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Codespace

OGP

Distribution format
Name Version
Text or Plaintext
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/a7304d52-9860-4aed-e053-6c86abc0ab5a/

Published dataset - doi:10.5285/a7304d52-9860-4aed-e053-6c86abc0ab5a

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

BODC protocols are based on the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) model enabling BODC to iterate towards compliance with the on-going evolution and development of community requirements including FAIR (Findable,Accessible,Interoperable,Reusable), TRUST (Transparency, Responsibility, User community, Sustainability, Technology) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics). Data managers quality assure submissions and assemble the metadata necessary for curation. Submissions (as received) are placed in a long-term accession and stored in triplicate across multiple sites. Appropriate data are transferred into a standard internal format with source variable names mapped to controlled vocabularies, documentation assembled, and metadata loaded into BODC databases. Access to these data is through direct request, the BODC website and through partner repositories such as SeaDataNet. Access control is attained by assigning a data policy to each set of data and this policy is used to administer access when data are requested. Discovery metadata is aligned with EU INSPIRE (through MEDIN) and SeaDataNet community standards. Data are converted to open community formats including Ocean Data View ASCII and SeaDataNet NetCDF, with data described using terms from the NERC vocabulary server. BODC submission agreements are documented on the BODC website and customer service is assured with a dedicated requests team that serve data following local regulations including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) 2004.

Pass
Yes
Statement

This dataset was aggregated by the organisations with the "originator" role in this metadata record from historical analogue data held in the archive of the Spanish National Geographical Institute (IGN) in Madrid (Spain). The data were then provided to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for long-term archive and data publication in the BODC Published Data Library.

Instrument(s) used to collect data: sea level recorders.

Metadata

File identifier
07a532cfbd5f52ebbcbd0deffc75b9ad XML
Metadata language
English
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2022-03-02T12:41:14
Metadata standard name
MEDIN
Metadata standard version

3.1.1

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Polly Hadžiabdić

enquiries@bodc.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

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