Port of Marseille

Monthly and yearly mean sea levels since 1885 are available on the PSMSL site. These tide curves were digitised in the early 2000s to give a secular series of hourly sea level measurements. Digitisation was financed by the IGN.
 

 

To find out more:

• PSMSL page on sea level means calculated for Marseille
• Some videos on the Marseille tide station:

Le Marégraphe by Provenceplustv

 

Le marégraphe by VilledeMarseille

 

References

• Coulomb A. (2011). Contrôle des marégraphes de l'observatoire de Marseille. Instruction technique IT/G 276 V2
• Coulomb A. (2010). A Marseille, l'IGN gère un observatoire marégraphique moderne, performant et évolutif. Poster, journée de la géodésie, Saint-Mandé, 14 octobre 2010
• Gaufrès, P., Sabatier F. (2005). Extreme storm surges distributions at Marseilles, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, MEDCOAST 05, 25-29 October 2005, Kusadasi, Turkey Water Level Changes, Vol. 2, 1235-1246
• Gaufrès P., Sabatier F. (2006). Frequency distributions of storm surge for coastal prevention at Marseilles, Fifth International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation Risk Analysis 2006, 19-21 June 2006 Malta
• Gaufrès P., Sabatier F., Woppelmann G. (2006). Extreme storm surge distributions and practical applications at Marseilles (France), EMEC7- ECSA 40's, Caen, May 2006
• Gaufrès P., Sabatier F. (2006). Extreme storm surge distributions and practical applications at Marseilles (France), 7th International Conference on Hydroinformatics 2006, Advanced applications of modelling, Vol III, p 1601-1608, Acropolis, Nice
• Gaufrès P., Sabatier F. (2007). Extreme storm surge distributions and practical applications at Marseilles (France), European Symposium on Flood Risk Management Research (EFRM 2007), 6-7 February 2007, Dresden, Germany
• Philippe V. (2003). Étude Critique des Observations du Marégraphe de Marseille réalisées par le Service de Géodésie et Nivellement de l'Institut Géographique National. Mémoire de soutenance de Diplôme d'Ingénieur de l'Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Strasbourg, Spécialité TOPOGRAPHIE, 114pp.
• Letetrel C. (2009). The Marseille tide gauge : recovery and analysis of high frequency sea level data from 1885, Final report for MedCLIVAR - Exchange Grant 1928.
• Letetrel C., M. Marcos, B. Martin Miguez and G. Woppelmann (2010). Sea level extremes in Marseille (NW Mediterranean) during 1885-2008, Continental Shelf Research, Volume 30, Issue 12, 1 July 2010, Pages 1267-1274, ISSN 0278-4343, DOI : 10.1016/j.csr.2010.04.003.

 

Last updated: 12/12/2012