QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                       updated: 01 Oct 2020
              Station  : Virginia Key,FL           Latitude:  25 43.9N
              Country  : USA                      Longitude: 080 09.7W
              JASL #   : 755A                 Time Meridian: 075W (GMT - 5 hr)
              GLOSS #  : 332  Originator #:8723214   NODC #: 72085001
              Contributor  : National Ocean Service (NOS)                       
                             National Ocean. and Atmos. Administration (NOAA)   
                             N/OES22
                             SSMC4, STATION 7109
                             1305 East West Highway
                             Silver Spring, MD. 20910-3233
              Originator   : same                                               
              Original Data: Digital                                            
              Instrmnt Type: Aquatrak acoustic gauge, NOAA Next 
                             Generation Water Level Measuring System (NGWLMS)
              Digitzd Intvl: 6 minute (each sampling is three-minute average)
              Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:     
                    Hourly : discrete sampling on the hour                      
                    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 : 28 Jan 1994 - 31 Dec 2019
              Gaps > 1 mon : 03 Oct 1997 - 08 Nov 1997
              Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23)   Space-filler Flag   :-9999     
              Units        : millimeters         Missing Data Flag   : 9999     
              Existing     : Yes                 Operational         : Yes      
              Sat. Trans.  : Yes                 Distribution        : 1994-2019
              Refernce Levl: All heights have been referred to the station tide 
                             staff zero which is linked to fixed bench marks.
              Comment      : The data are of good quality.  The site is
                             referred to as "Virginia Key, Biscayne Bay, FL"
                             by the data originators.
                                                                                
                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              1994  92 none                 none            none
              1995 100 none                 none            none
              1996 100 none                 none            none
              1997  90 276-312              none            none
              1998 100 none                 none            none
              1999 100 none                 none            none
              2000 100 none                 none            none
              2001 100 none                 (00)154-(12)154 none
                                            (23)154-(09)155
                                            (04)156-(17)156
                                            (23)156-(12)157
                                            (00)158-(12)158
                                            (00)159-(11)159
                                            (00)160-(13)160
                                            (22)160-(13)161
                                            (00)162-(12)162
                                            (23)162-(12)163
              2002 100 none                 none            none
              2003 100 none                 (08)102-(15)102 305-309
              2004 100 none                 none            none
              2005 100 none                 none            none
              2006 100 none                 none            none
              2007 100 none                 none            none
              2008 100 none                 none            none
              2009 100 none                 none            none
              2010 100 none                 none            none
              2011 100 none                 none            none
              2012 100 none                 none            none
              2013 100 none                 none            none
              2014 100 none                 none            none
              2015 100 none                 none            none
              2016  98 46-56                none            none
              2017 100 none                 none            none
              2018 100 none                 none            none
              2019 100 none                 none            none