tide-gauge
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The official tide-gauge record from Boston Harbor shows that water levels, not accounting for tides, rose roughly a metre in 12 hours, taking it to one of the highest high-water marks ever recorded there.
From Nature ● Mar. 6, 2018
Nerem and his colleagues were not sure that the calibration was necessary — and when they removed it, measurements of sea-level rise in the satellite's early years aligned more closely with the tide-gauge data.
From Nature ● Jul. 16, 2017
The scientists determined how fast sea levels were rising in their hotspot by analyzing tide-gauge records along the North American Atlantic coast.
From Time ● Jun. 25, 2012
Understanding sea level is one of the most vexing problems in climate science, largely because the tide-gauge record is plagued by enormous difficulties, including spotty coverage in the Southern Hemisphere.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2011
Thus what the tide-gauge does is to present to us a long curved line of which the summits correspond to the heights of high water, while the depressions are the corresponding points of low water.
From Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
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