BGS Hosted Metadata
Historic sea level records in the Thames Estuary, UK, 1911 - 1995
This dataset contains high and low water values manually digitised from historic hand-written tabulated ledgers, from the Port of London Authority (PLA). The dataset contains 463 years of data, from across 15 tide gauge sites along the Thames Estuary (bounding box = -0.3159W, 51.3914N, 1.3797E, 51.8428N), for the period 1911 to 1995. When these historic records are combined with digital records available from the PLA since 1995, the new sea level time-series spans the 109-year period from 1911 to 2019. London is one of the world’s most important coastal cities and is located around the Thames Estuary. Quantifying changes in sea levels in the Thames Estuary over the 20th century and early part of the 21st century is vital to inform future management of flood risk in London. This dataset is of importance for ongoing monitoring of mean sea-level rise, and changes in tidal range and extreme sea levels in the Thames Estuary. The project was led by the Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton and the Environment Agency, with contributions from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemunde and the National Oceanography Centre. The study contributes to the objectives of UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) project E-Rise: Earliest detection of sea-level rise accelerations to inform lead time to upgrade/replace coastal flood defence infrastructure (NE/P009069/1; I.D.H.).
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British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048_thames_tide
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-02-18
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-12-14
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-06-24
- Citation identifier
- http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ / EDMED7082
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
Unknown
Owner University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science
Unknown
Originator British Oceanographic Data Centre
Custodian British Oceanographic Data Centre
Distributor
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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MEDIN metadata record availability
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INSPIRE themes
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SeaDataNet PDV
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Vertical Coverages
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations apply
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Data are freely available
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
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No conditions apply
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Elevation
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- Geographic identifier
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North Sea
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Geographic identifier
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Thames Estuary
SeaVoX water bodies 2021-10-28 revision
- Begin date
- 1911-01-01
- End date
- 1995-12-31
- Unique resource identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Codespace
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OGP
- Distribution format
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Name Version Delimited Image Text or Plaintext
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/b66afb2c-cd53-7de9-e053-6c86abc0d251/ Published dataset - doi:10.5285/b66afb2c-cd53-7de9-e053-6c86abc0d251
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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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
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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
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This dataset contributes to the objectives of UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) project E-Rise: Earliest detection of sea-level rise accelerations to inform lead time to upgrade/replace coastal flood defence infrastructure (NE/P009069/1; I.D.H.) using software developed for the project and following in-house quality control procedures. 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
- 4315c545f6fd50cfaddfe3e0432b68fe XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-02-18T11:20:57
- Metadata standard name
- MEDIN
- Metadata standard version
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3.1.1
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Oceanographic Data Centre
Polly Hadžiabdić (Head of the BODC Requests Team)
Point of contact
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