Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 1761

Woodworth, Philip L.; Vassie, John M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4387-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4387-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4387-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 14, issue 9

Data description paper

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26 Sep 2022

Data description paper |

| 26 Sep 2022

Reanalyses of Maskelyne's tidal data at St. Helena in 1761

Philip L. Woodworth and John M. Vassie

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Maskelyne sea level observations from the Island of St. Helena in 1761 Philip Leslie Woodworth and John McLauchlan Vassie https://doi.org/10.5285/e66db85a-eaae-6665-e053-6c86abc0bfb9

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An electronic data set of tidal measurements at St. Helena in 1761 by Nevil Maskelyne is described. These data were first analysed by Cartwright in papers on changing tides, but his data files were never archived. The now newly digitised Maskelyne data have been reanalysed in order to obtain an updated impression of whether the tide has changed at that location in over two and a half centuries. Our main conclusion is that the major tidal constituent (M2) has changed little.