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

10th December 2012
Web site status
Web systems working normally.



2nd April 2012
Glider deployment
Glider-117 Zephyr was launched on another Irish Sea mission at 15:00 on the 2 April 2012.
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Wed 22 May 1:54 BST 2013

» 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
2013/05/21 20:59
Sea temp 10.7 degC
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WaveNet Buoy
2013/04/03 13:00:00
Wave height .60 m
Hilbre Island
Hilbre Island Met Station
2013/05/22 00:50
Add one hour for BST
Last hour wind average was 19 knots
Force 5 WNW
Air Tem 11.7 degC

Date/time (GMT)
Wind speed (knots)
05/22 00:50   20 WNW
05/22 00:40   19 WNW
05/22 00:30   19 WNW
05/22 00:20   18 WNW
05/22 00:10   17 WNW
05/22 00:00   18 WNW
05/21 23:50   16 WNW
05/21 23:40   16 WNW
05/21 23:30   16 WNW
05/21 23:20   17 WNW
05/21 23:10   19 NW
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