Three historic tide gauge records from Svalbard
Abstract
Abstract. Three historic tide gauge records from the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have been recently converted from tabulations more than one century old into computer files. The records are found to be good quality and capable of being used in modern tidal analysis. The analyses confirm the findings on tidal constants by previous researchers and demonstrate how little non-tidal variability in sea level there was at these times. One of the tide gauges used was a crude contraption of a design not used before or since. Nevertheless, it appears to have worked well and so deserves to be better known.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
Coastal and Marine Dynamics
History and Developments in Astronomy
Publication details
- Journal / source
- History of geo- and space sciences
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1–12
- Publication date
- 16 January 2026
- Language
- EN