QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL updated: 22 Sep 2020 Station : Christiansted,VI Latitude: 17 45.0N Country : USA Longitude: 064 42.3W JASL # : 258A Time Meridian: 060W (GMT - 4 hr) GLOSS # : none Originator #:9751364 NODC #: 71067601 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 : 24 Feb 2006 - 31 Dec 2019 Gaps > 1 mon : 01 Oct 2017 - 10 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 : 2006-2019 Refernce Levl: All heights have been referred to the station datum which is linked to fixed bench marks. A constant of 7000 mm 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 ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 2006 85 none none none 2007 91 50-57,66-74,328-244 (03)049-(18)049 none 2008 100 none none none 2009 98 271-280 none none 2010 100 none none none 2011 100 none none none 2012 100 none none none 2013 100 none none none 2014 100 none none none 2015 100 none none none 2016 100 none none none 2017 75 274-365 none none 2018 81 1-69 none none 2019 100 none none none