QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                                                                
              Station  : Miami,Haulover Pier       Latitude:  25 54.2N          
              Country  : USA                      Longitude: 080 07.2W          
              JASL #   : 241A                 Time Meridian: 075W (GMT - 5 hr)  
              GLOSS #  : 332  Originator #:8723080   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: Analog-to-Digital Recorder (ADR)                   
              Digitzd Intvl: 6 minute                                           
              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 : 01 Jan 1985 - 22 Sep 1992
              Gaps > 1 mon : 11 May - 1 Jul 1992
              Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23)   Space-filler Flag   :-9999     
              Units        : millimeters         Missing Data Flag   : 9999     
              Existing     : Yes                 Operational         : Yes      
              Sat. Trans.  : Yes                 Distribution        : 1985-1992
              Refernce Levl: All heights have been referred to the station tide 
                             staff zero which is linked to fixed bench marks.
                             While standard mechanical or ADR instrument was the
                             primary gauge, leveling calibration factors were
                             applied monthly based on tide staff comparisons.
              Comment      : The hourly residuals are noisy from June 1989 -    
                             May 1990 due to the stilling well being not        
                             properly configured for surf zone application.     
                             Otherwise, the daily and monthly values agree with 
                             Key West and Fernandina Beach and do not show any  
                             obvious shifts or trends.  The monthly plot reveals
                             a consistent annual and semi-annual signal.  The
                             extreme peak on 24 Aug 1992 is associated with
                             Hurricane Andrew.
                                                                                
                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              1985  99 none                 none            none                
              1986 100 none                 none            none                
              1987 100 none                 none            none                
              1988 100 none                 none            none                
              1989  86 77-89,183-194,       none            none                
                       206-235                                                  
              1990 100 none                 none            none                
              1991 100 none                 none            none
              1992  58 132-183,257-259      none            none