QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL Station : Vigo Latitude: 42 14.0N Country : Spain Longitude: 008 44.0W JASL # : 208A Time Meridian: 015E (GMT + 1 hr) GLOSS # : none TOGA #: none NODC #: 74002801 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 : 08 Mar 1943 - 31 Dec 1990 Gaps > 1 mon : none Time Refernce: GMT (00-23 hours) Space-filler Flag :-9999 Units : millimeters Missing Data Flag : 9999 Existing : Yes Operational : Yes Sat. Trans. : No Distribution : 1943-1990 Refernce Levl: The data have been linked to tide staff zero and fixed bench marks by the originators. Comment : The quality of the data is high overall. A few years with timing offsets in the 1950s and late 1970s through the early 1980s. CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 1943 82 none none none 1944 100 none none none 1945 100 none none none 1946 100 none none none 1947 100 none none none 1948 100 none none none 1949 100 none none none 1950 100 none none none 1951 100 none none 182-204 1952 100 none none none 1953 93 1-13,282-294 none 31-34,211-223 1954 99 283-285,343-345 (23)151-(23)151 285-288 (15)303-(23)303 (23)306-(22)307 1955 100 none (23)031-(23)031 228-234 1956 100 none none 102-105 1957 100 none (13)304-(22)304 none 1958 100 none none none 1959 100 none (05)005-(23)005 22-23 1960 100 none none none 1961 100 none none none 1962 100 none (10)193-(22)193 none 1963 100 none none none 1964 100 none (23)087-(08)088 244-257 (03)148-(13)148 1965 100 none (23)025-(16)026 none 1966 100 none (06)114-(22)114 none 1967 100 none none none 1968 100 none none 28-32,360-361 1969 100 none (08)361-(22)361 none 1970 100 none (17)274-(01)275 none 1971 100 none (23)090-(23)090 none 1972 100 none (11)167-(21)167 71-73 1973 100 none none none 1974 100 none none none 1975 100 none none none 1976 100 none (23)088-(06)089 none (23)148-(07)149 1977 100 none none 359-365 1978 100 none none 1-8,26-32,343-344, 361-365 1979 100 none none 28-42,100-110,115- 122,261,276-278 1980 100 none none 16-32,45-49,183-200, 225-233,266-287,311- 345,355-361 1981 100 none none 34-53,121-277,301- 314,331-334,352-353, 358-365 1982 100 none (23)204-(22)205 5-6,64-66,81-118, 147-181,288-324 1983 100 none (04)105-(22)105 27-32,40-41,353-365 (22)194-(11)195 1984 100 none none 1-32,46-52 1985 100 none none 245-247 1986 100 none (08)097-(22)097 none (14)166-(22)166 1987 100 none (08)215-(19)215 none 1988 100 none (09)248-(04)249 none (00)320-(23)320 (15)328-(22)328 1989 100 none none none 1990 100 none none none