Coastal Observatory, Liverpool Bay, Irish Sea Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory website

Coastal Observatory, Irish Sea
Area of research interest

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» About us
» Project summary
» Future plans
» Participants
» Survey dates
» Outputs
» Service level
» Register for data
» Conditions of use
» Disclaimer
» Steering Group
» SG Documentation

» Monitoring
» Coastal tide gauges
» Ferry measurements
» Fixed locations
» Met stations
» Radar
» Rivers
» Satellite
» Webcams


» Modelling
» Ocean-Shelf Models
» Irish Sea Model
» Wave Model
» Mesoscale Model






ADCP mooring recovery
ADCP mooring recovery


What's new

9th February 2010
Web site status
Web systems working normally. Please refer to individual measurement systems for detailed information. SEE weather station status (wind sensor damaged).

4th February 2010
National Oceanography Centre
The Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory will form part of a larger organisation called the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) as of the 1st of April 2010.
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1st June 2009
Coastal Observatory review 2009
The following document contains the results from a review of the first five years of the Coastal Observatory and recommendations for future direction.

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Tue 9 Feb 9:15 UTC 2010

» About us
About the Irish Sea Observatory, future plans, participants, cruise plan, outputs, register for data, Steering Group information.



Monitoring
» Monitoring
What we are monitoring? Get the latest meteorology, wave heights, currents, tidal sea levels, sea water temperature, salinity, turbidity chlorophyll. Some in real-time others in delayed mode.


Modelling
» Modelling
View forecasts for the Irish Sea. Outputs from the Ocean shelf, Irish Sea, Liverpool Bay models, including map based Irish Sea meteorological forecasts.


MapViewer
» MapViewer
Get information also contained within the monitoring and modelling parts of the website using a map based system.



» Status
Tells you about problems with the real-time data and model forecasts, on-going maintenance and scheduled down times.




Real-time latest
Liverpool Bar Light
2010/02/09 07:59
Sea temp 3.8 degC
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WaveNet Buoy
2010/02/09 06:00:00
Wave height .90 m
Hilbre Island
Hilbre Island Met Station
2010/02/09 09:10
Add one hour for BST
Last hour wind average was 0 knots
Force 0 N
Air Tem 2.8 degC

Date/time (GMT)
Wind speed (knots)
02/09 09:10   0 N
02/09 09:00   0 N
02/09 08:50   0 N
02/09 08:40   0 N
02/09 08:30   0 N
02/09 08:20   0 N
02/09 08:10   0 N
02/09 08:00   0 N
02/09 07:50   0 N
02/09 07:40   0 N
02/09 07:30   0 N
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NERC web site