QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL updated: 17 Sep 2020 Station : Culebra, PR Latitude: 18 18.0N Country : USA Longitude: 065 18.1W JASL # : 219A Time Meridian: 060W (GMT - 4 hr) GLOSS # : none Originator #:9752235 NODC #: 71068501 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 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 : 19 Aug 2005 - 31 Dec 2019 Gaps > 1 mon : 14 Oct 2010 - 05 Mar 2011;12 Feb 2013 - 10 Mar 2016 01 Feb 2018 - 03 Mar 2018 Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23) Space-filler Flag :-9999 Units : millimeters Missing Data Flag : 9999 Existing : Yes Operational : Yes Sat. Trans. : Yes Distribution : 2005-2019 Refernce Levl: All heights have been referred to the station datum which is linked to fixed bench marks. A constant of 7000 mm was subtracted from originator's data to fit the UH format. Comment : The data are of high quality. CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 2005 37 none none none 2006 100 none none none 2007 100 none none none 2008 100 none none none 2009 100 none none none 2010 76 50-59,287-365 none none 2011 83 1-64 none none 2012 100 none none none 2013 12 none none none 2014 0 none none none 2015 0 none none none 2016 81 1-70 none none 2017 100 none none none 2018 92 32-62 none none 2019 100 none none none