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

Coastal Observatory, Irish Sea
Area of research interest

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Latest satellite composites

» 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






Taking water samples
Taking water samples


What's new

1st September 2010
Web site status
Web systems working normally.

15th April 2010
Glider recovery
Glider 117 was recovered on the 12th April after completing a survey of the Irish Sea.
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24th March 2010
Glider deployment
Glider-117 Zephyr was launched on its first Irish Sea mission at 15:00 on the 24 March 2010.
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10th February 2010
Hilbre Island
A replacement weather station has now been installed on Hilbre Island.

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Thu 2 Sep 15:11 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
2010/09/02 11:59
Sea temp 17.1 degC
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WaveNet Buoy
2010/09/02 10:30:00
Wave height .20 m
Hilbre Island
Hilbre Island Met Station
2010/09/02 15:00
Add one hour for BST
Last hour wind average was 6 knots
Force 2 SE
Air Tem 22.8 degC

Date/time (GMT)
Wind speed (knots)
09/02 15:00   6 SE
09/02 14:50   5 SE
09/02 14:40   7 SSE
09/02 14:30   7 SSE
09/02 14:20   7 SSE
09/02 14:10   7 SSE
09/02 14:00   6 SSE
09/02 13:50   6 SSE
09/02 13:40   7 SSE
09/02 13:30   6 SSE
09/02 13:20   3 WSW
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