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

Today's science for tomorrow's operational systems

Coastal Observatory, Irish Sea
Area of research interest

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Latest satellite composites

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

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


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






ADCP for measuring currents
ADCP for measuring currents


What's new

15th January 2009
Web site status
Web systems are working normally.

Please refer to the status link below for more detailed information on individual data feeds.

Some problems reported with data feeds.


12th December 2008
Survey cruises hit fifty-eight
The latest Liverpool Bay survey has now been completed. The next one is scheduled for February 2009.

View past news items | Check status for problems
Thu 15 Jan 19:41 UTC 2009

» 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
2009/01/15 17:59
Sea temp 6.2 degC
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WaveNet Buoy
2009/01/15 18:30:00
Wave height .80 m
Hilbre Island
Hilbre Island Met Station
2009/01/15 19:30
Add one hour for BST
Last hour wind average was 21 knots
Force 5 SE
Air Tem 7.1 degC

Date/time (GMT)
Wind speed (knots)
01/15 19:30   21 SE
01/15 19:20   22 SE
01/15 19:10   20 SE
01/15 19:00   20 SE
01/15 18:50   20 SE
01/15 18:40   20 SE
01/15 18:30   21 SE
01/15 18:20   21 SE
01/15 18:10   20 SE
01/15 18:00   20 SE
01/15 17:50   21 SE
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