EGU2020-7596
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7596
EGU General Assembly 2020
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Historical tide-gauge sea-level observations in Alicante and Santander (Spain) since the 19th century

Marta Marcos1,2, Bernat Puyol3, Angel Amores2, Begoña Pérez Gómez4, M. Ángeles Fraile3, and Stefan A. Talke5
Marta Marcos et al.
  • 1University of the Balearic Islands, IMEDEA, Esporles, Spain (marta.marcos@uib.es)
  • 2IMEDEA (CSIC‐UIB), Esporles, Spain
  • 3Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Madrid, Spain
  • 4Puertos del Estado, Madrid, Spain
  • 5Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

A set of historical tide-gauge sea-level records from two locations in Santander (Northern Spain) and Alicante (Spanish Mediterranean coast) have been recovered from logbooks stored in national archives. Sea-level measurements have been digitised, quality-controlled and merged into three consistent sea-level time series (two in Alicante and one in Santander) using high precision levelling information. The historical sea-level record in Santander consists of a daily time series spanning the period 1876-1924 and it is further connected to the modern tide-gauge station nearby, ensuring datum continuity up to the present. The sea-level record in Alicante starts in 1870 with daily averaged values until the 1920s and hourly afterwards, and is still in operation, thus representing the longest tide-gauge sea-level time series in the Mediterranean Sea. The long-term consistency and reliability of the new records is discussed based on the comparison with nearby tide gauge time series.

How to cite: Marcos, M., Puyol, B., Amores, A., Pérez Gómez, B., Fraile, M. Á., and Talke, S. A.: Historical tide-gauge sea-level observations in Alicante and Santander (Spain) since the 19th century, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-7596, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7596, 2020

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