A hut or cabinet built over or beside a stilling well to protect the recorder, logger, power supply and transmitter. Some are walk-in huts and some are weatherproof cabinets on a pile, and crews call both the tide house. Observers work out of the tide house during staff readings and keep the station log and bench mark descriptions inside.
Key to the tide house is on the harbour master's board, the logger's on the left shelf.
Also heard as
- gauge house
- tide hut
- gauge shelter
Related terms
Tide gauge
An instrument that records water level continuously at a fixed point, the basic tool of tidal measurement.
Stilling well
An upright tube fed through a narrow bottom intake, filtering out waves so the gauge inside sees only the slow tide.
Bubbler
Field name for a gas-purge pressure gauge that measures water level by pushing gas through an underwater orifice.
Tide staff
A graduated board fixed vertically in the water and read by eye to check a gauge against datum.