QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL updated: 08 Jun 2001 Station : La Guaira Latitude: 10 37.0N Country : Venezuela Longitude: 066 56.0W JASL # : 247A Time Meridian: 060W (GMT - 4 hr) GLOSS # : 328 TOGA #: A011 NODC #: 71060601 Contributor : Instituto Oceanografico de Venezuela Universidad de Oriente Apartado Postal 245 Cumana VENEZUELA Originator : same Original Data: unconfirmed Instrmnt Type: unconfirmed Digitzd Intvl: unconfirmed Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by: Hourly : unconfirmed Daily : 119-point convolution filter (Bloomfield, 1976) centered on noon applied to the hourly data with respective periods of the 95, 50, and 5% amplitude points at 124.0, 60.2, and 40.2 hours Monthly: Simple average of all daily values; calculated if 7 or fewer days are missing Span of data : 01 Jan 1985 - 31 Dec 1994 Gaps > 1 mon : 01 Nov 1989 - 01 Dec 1989;01 Apr 1991 - 01 May 1991 Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23) Space-filler Flag :-9999 Units : millimeters Missing Data Flag : 9999 Existing : Yes Operational : Yes Sat. Trans. : No Distribution : 1985-1994 Refernce Levl: The sea level heights are referred to the tide zero which is linked to fixed bench marks. Comment : The daily and monthly means do not reveal any obvious reference level shifts. The timing of hourly values is good. CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 1985 95 148-152,335-349 none none 1986 100 none none none 1987 100 none none none 1988 100 none (12)183-(22)183 none 1989 91 209-213,305-335 (20)001-(12)002 none (14)032-(22)032 (15)035-(22)035 1990 100 none none none 1991 88 22-32,91-121,135-140 none none 1992 98 336-343 none none 1993 99 25-27 none none 1994 98 173-179 none none