QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL updated: 24 Apr 2013 Station : Aguadilla,PR Latitude: 18 27.4N Country : USA Longitude: 067 09.8W JASL # : 263A Time Meridian: 060W (GMT - 4 hr) GLOSS # : none Originator #:9759412 NODC #: 71068701 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 : 20 Jun 2006 - 30 Oct 2012 Gaps > 1 mon : 24 Jun 2007 - 15 Dec 2007;26 Jun 2010 - 07 Aug 2010 Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23) Space-filler Flag :-9999 Units : millimeters Missing Data Flag : 9999 Existing : Yes Operational : Yes Sat. Trans. : Yes Distribution : 2006-2012 Refernce Levl: All heights have been referred to the station datum which is linked to fixed bench marks. A constant of 6000 mm subtracted from originator's data to fit the UH format. Comment : Other than gaps, the data are of good quality. CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 2006 53 none (13)249-(23)249 none 2007 52 168-171,175-349 (02)164-(13)164 none (14)173-(10)174 2008 100 none none none 2009 94 274-294 none none 2010 88 177-219 none none 2011 94 120-131,133-143 none none 2012 93 none none none