Three historic tide gauge records from Svalbard

Abstract. Three historic tide gauge records from the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have been converted from tabulations more than one century old into computer files. The records are found to be good quality and capable of being used in modern tidal analysis. The analyses confirm the findings on tidal constants by previous researchers and demonstrate how little non-tidal variability in sea level there was at these times. One of the tide gauges used was a crude contraption of a design not used before or since. Nevertheless, it appears to have worked well and so deserves to be better known.