Aberdeen tide gauge site

The tide gauge is located on the south east corner of Waterloo Quay, Aberdeen Docks.
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Tide gauge location

The tide gauge equipment is housed in a brick building which also contains a Munro gauge mounted over a stilling well. The gauge is no longer used and the stilling well has been filled in. The present equipment consists of a pneumatic bubbler system with two full tide and mid-tide pressure points mounted on steelwork attached to a pile under the quay to the left of the lamp post seen in the centre of the photograph. All three pressure lines are monitored by the POL data logger.

The tide gauge is levelled to the tide gauge bench mark supported by Ordnance Survey auxiliary marks.

External users

Sea level pressures and/or elevations from this site are supplied to the following authorities:

• Aberdeen Port Control
• Grampian Regional Council Water Services Department
• Environment Agency, North East Region
• National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management, Netherlands

Site history

1930 – Cary Porter gauge in use at Pocra Quay
1967 – Munro gauge installed
1973 – Munro gauge moved to its present location
1986 – DATARING system installed, one full tide bubbler, datum probe and potentiometer on the Munro gauge
1993 – DATARING removed from service due to harbour works
1993 – Operation of the Munro gauge ceased and the stilling well filled in
1994 – DATARING installed with two full tide and mid-tide bubblers
2001 – New POL data logger installed recording the two full tide sensors
2004 – Mid-tide sensor connected to the POL data logger