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Tides
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About tides
Tides – questions and answers
Sea level – questions and answers
The Doodson-Légé Tide Predicting Machine
Tide clocks and watches
Tidal river bores
The River Dee / Afon Dyfrdwy
The River Mersey
UK National Tide Gauge Network
Data availability
Tidal predictions – UK and Ireland
UK South Atlantic Network
Gibraltar sea level station
Tidal predictions – South Atlantic
Tide gauge instruments
Definitions of tidal levels
Chart datum and ordnance datum
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL)
(external link)
Engineers’ page
Proudman Building, Liverpool weather station
About storm surges
Tide-surge model
Surge model forecast
Surge model archive
Surge model archive: 2004–2019
Surge model ensemble forecasting
Skew surges
Skew surge history: England – south
Skew surge history: England – east
Skew surge history: England – west
Skew surge history: Wales
Skew surge history: Scotland
Skew surge history: Northern Ireland
Skew surge history: Isle of Man
Skew surge history: Channel Islands
Sea level trends
Sea level trend charts
Software
Tides
Tidal predictions, highest and lowest levels, and other related information can be found here.
About tides
Topics relating to the tidal and sea level research carried out at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool –
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Tidal predictions for UK & Irish ports
Tidal predictions for the next 28 days are available for locations in the UK & Ireland, together with the highest and lowest predicted tides from 2008 to 2026 at each port –
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Other tidal predictions
Predictions spanning one year for the South Atlantic and Antarctica, British Overseas Territories, and the Gibraltar sea level station are available for download –
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Chart datum and ordnance datum
Tidal levels are quoted relative to chart datum (approximately the lowest level due to astronomical effects and excluding meteorological effects); use this list to
convert between chart datum and ordnance datum
for selected UK and Irish ports –
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