QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL updated: 24 Sep 2020 Station : Mona Is., PR Latitude: 18 05.4N Country : USA Longitude: 067 56.3W JASL # : 267A Time Meridian: 060W (GMT - 4 hr) GLOSS # : none Originator #:9759938 NODC #: 71068702 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 : 18 Sep 2006 - 31 Dec 2019 Gaps > 1 mon : 28 Oct 2006 - 21 Dec 2006;01 Jan 2007 - 28 Jan 2007 01 Jan 2009 - 20 Feb 2009;03 Jun 2009 - 22 Jul 2009 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 : Other than gaps, the data are of good quality. CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 2006 14 301-355 (22)355-(11)356 none 2007 84 1-59 none none 2008 100 none none none 2009 73 1-51,154-203 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 100 none none none 2018 100 none none none 2019 100 none none none