QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                                                                
              Station  : Male-A                    Latitude:  04 11.0N          
              Country  : Rep. of Maldives         Longitude: 073 31.0E          
              JASL #   : 108A                 Time Meridian: 075E (GMT + 5 hr)  
              GLOSS #  : 028      TOGA #: I052       NODC #: 10074301
              Contributor  : Lanka Hydraulic Institute, LTD.                    
                             Ministry of Public Works and Labour                
                             Male                                               
                             REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES                               
              Originator   : same                                               
              Original Data: analog                                             
              Instrmnt Type: OTT                                                
              Digitzd Intvl: hourly                                             
              Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:     
                    Hourly : Original data were spot hourly                     
                    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 : 29 Feb 1988 - 31 May 1989                          
              Gaps > 1 mon : none                                               
              Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23)   Space-filler Flag   :-9999     
              Units        : millimeters         Missing Data Flag   : 9999     
              Existing     : No                  Operational         : No       
              Sat. Trans.  : No                  Distribution        : 1988-1989
              Refernce Levl: The sea level heights are referred to the zero     
                             point assigned to the tide gauge.                  
              Comment      : This gauge was installed for a one-year project.   
                             The data are of good quality.  The gauge was       
                             located very near Male-C.                          
                                                                                
                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              1988  84 none                 none            108,192-193,243,258-
                                                            259,261,290,313,353 
              1989  41 none                 none            91,124-129,140-144