tide-gauge

British  

noun

1. a gauge used to measure extremes or the present level of tidal movement

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Example Sentences

The data quickly began to produce incredibly granular pictures of nuisance-flooding risk, certainly far more detailed than NOAA’s tide-gauge analyses.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021

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

By that time it was strong enough to be suitable for a tide-gauge.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir