QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL Updated: 09 Feb 2011 Station : Arrecife-D Latitude: 28 57.0N Country : Spain Longitude: 013 34.0W JASL # : 205D Time Meridian: GMT GLOSS # : none TOGA #: none NODC #: 72018301 Contributor : Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia C/ Corazon de Maria, No. 8 - 1 28002 Madrid SPAIN Originator : same Original Data: analog Instrmnt Type: A.OTT, float and stilling well Digitzd Intvl: one hour Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by: Hourly : direct digitization, no filter 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 1987 - 31 Dec 1991 Gaps > 1 mon : 01 Mar 1991 - 17 Apr 1991 Time Refernce: GMT (00-23 hours) Space-filler Flag :-9999 Units : millimeters Missing Data Flag : 9999 Existing : Yes Operational : Yes Sat. Trans. : No Distribution : 1987-1991 Refernce Levl: The data have been linked to tide staff zero and fixed bench marks by the originators. Comment : This series is separate from Arrecife-C because of a level shift 27 Dec 1986. Otherwise, no level shifts are apparent. CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 1987 100 none (17)181-(23)181 16-19,85-92,108-110, (18)191-(01)192 243-244 (04)245-(13)245 (15)252-(01)253 (00)278-(13)278 (01)296-(13)296 1988 98 13-22 none 153-162,255-260 1989 90 1-25,352-365 none 37-52,60-62,71-73, 94-99 1990 94 1-5,34-40,212-224 none 142-147,340-346,365 1991 70 1-6,51-58,60-107, (06)162-(23)162 14-16,45-49 227-235,259-264,282- (00)361-(09)361 302,308-314,331-341, 345-350,356-360