ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NEWLYN DATUM
Named after Newlyn, Cornwall, where the observations were taken.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEWLYN DATUM»
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Newlyn datum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Newlyn datum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Glossary of Mapping Science
... W latitude of origin 39° 35' 36.692" N azimuth from origin to Turkey Point 1° 34'
36.413" Newlyn Datum - A vertical-control datum defined by mean sea level at
Newlyn, England. SEE ALSO Ordnance Newlyn Third Geodetic Leveling Datum.
American Society of Civil Engineers, 1994
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International Conference on Coastal Management 2003: ...
There is a fundamental factor currently preventing the creation of an accurate
height model, that of the differing height datum's used by Ordnance Survey and
UKHO. On mainland Great Britain, Ordnance Survey use Newlyn Datum ...
3
Site Surveying and Levelling
The student should therefore be wary of using very old O.S. sheets, certainly pre-
l915, which would be related to this now defunct O.S. datum, besides being in
imperial units. (Note: Conversion from the Liverpool datum to the Newlyn datum
is ...
The work was originally based on a mean sea level determined at Liverpool in
l844, but this was considered to be unreliable and was superseded by the
Newlyn datum for the second and third sets of geodetic levelling. Slight
differences ...
Raymond Paul, Walter Whyte, 2012
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comptes rendus du congres international de geographie ...
The zero or datum level surface is the so-called Newlyn Datum, which is the
mean of the 52,608 consecutive hourly readings from the self- registering tide
gauge at Newlyn covering the period 19 15 May 1st to 1921 April 30th inclusive.
International Geographical Congress, 1938
For example, the expression " Liverpool and Newlyn data " seems to mean, at
first sight, something different from " Liverpool datum and Newlyn datum." The
English language has gone a long way along the road to standardisation of the "
— s ...
... interpolated contours at 25-foot intervals are shown on some sheets. A few
maps of northern Scotland are not contoured. Altitude values are related to the
Liverpool datum on some sheets and to the Newlyn datum on others. (2) Channel
...
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The Management of Setting Out in Construction
Conventional equipment is generally used on a local coordinate frame where the
height datum is 'orthometric' being referenced to a defined mean sea level (MSL)
datum (e.g Newlyn datum). A substantial offset in height exists between the ...
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Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
M. Schwartz. mechanical gauges, equipped with float, wires, counterweights,
clock, pen, paper chart recorder, and stilling well. They provided the first
complete tidal curves which could be examined in detail and digitized for further
analysis.
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The Geomorphology of North-west England
... the altitude of the water surface varied from +2.7 to +3.4 m O.D. (Liverpool: on
the Lancashire coast, differences between Liverpool and Newlyn datum are +0.1
to -0.1 m), which gave a maximum water depth of about 6 m (Brodrick, 1902).
Richard Hugh Johnson, 1985
