QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL updated: 19 Sep 2019 Station : Fort de France Latitude: 14 36.1N Country : France Longitude: 061 03.8W JASL # : 271A Time Meridian: 060W (GMT - 4 hr) GLOSS # : 338 Originator #: 501 NODC #: 71064101 Contributor : Service Hydrographique Et Oceanographique De La Marine (SHOM) Establissement Principal B.P. 426 -29275 Brest, Cedex, FRANCE and for 2006-, SHOM and Université de La Rochelle CLDG/SONEL - Centre Littoral de Géophysique Avenue Michel Crépeau F-17042 LA ROCHELLE Cedex Originator : SHOM, Meteo France, Marine Nationale Original Data: analog (OTT); digital (radar) Instrmnt Type: 1976-1985: A.OTT type R16 2005-: radar Krohne Optiflex Digitzd Intvl: hourly (Ott); 10 min (radar) Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by: Hourly : the original data are spot hourly (OTT); simple average of 2 min data at 1 second samples centered 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 : 30 Oct 1976 - 31 Dec 2018 Gaps > 1 mon : 31 Mar 1977 - 29 Sep 1978;03 Apr 1979 - 11 Jan 1983 09 Sep 1984 - 16 Oct 1984;02 Aug 1985 - 01 Jan 2006 23 Apr 2012 - 21 Sep 2012 Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23) Space-filler Flag :-9999 Units : millimeters Missing Data Flag : 9999 Existing : Yes Operational : Yes Sat. Trans. : Yes Distribution : 1976-2018 Refernce Levl: Primary benchmark is A 1.475m above Tide Gauge Zero. Comment : The daily and monthly means do not reveal any obvious reference level shifts. Long gaps exist through most of the record. The site is located in Martinique in the Antilles. CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 1976 17 none none none 1977 23 36-40,90-365 none none 1978 23 1-272,354-365 none none 1979 23 1,50-57,93-365 none none 1980 0 1-366 none none 1981 0 1-365 none none 1982 0 1-365 none none 1983 92 1-11,14-17,42-49, (04)018-(03)019 none 136-138,356-363 (04)145-(03)146 1984 91 258-290,334-336 none 299-300 1985 57 15-17,72-75,214-365 none none 1986 0 1-365 none none 1987 0 1-365 none none 1988 0 1-366 none none 1989 0 1-365 none none 1990 0 1-365 none none 1991 0 1-365 none none 1992 0 1-366 none none 1993 0 1-365 none none 1994 0 1-365 none none 1995 0 1-365 none none 1996 0 1-366 none none 1997 0 1-365 none none 1998 0 1-365 none none 1999 0 1-365 none none 2000 0 1-365 none none 2001 0 1-365 none none 2002 0 1-365 none none 2003 0 1-365 none none 2004 0 1-366 none none 2005 0 1-365 none none 2006 97 86-94,202-205 none none 2007 100 none none none 2008 100 none none none 2009 99 4-8 none none 2010 99 200-202 (17)199-(00)200 none 2011 99 345-349 (13)341-(20)341 none (01)343-(16)343 (01)344-(13)344 2012 100 none none none 2013 98 50-58 none none 2014 99 100-101 (02)355-(00)356 none 2015 100 none none none 2016 96 184-193,240-246 (12)272-(00)273 none 2017 100 none (23)143-(12)144 none 2018 98 68-72,257-258 none none