QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                       updated: 08 Mar 2023
              Station  : Macae                     Latitude:  22 23.1S
              Country  : Brazil                   Longitude: 041 46.2W
              JASL #   : 719A                 Time Meridian: 045W (GMT - 3 hr)
              GLOSS #  : 352  Originator #: N/A      NODC #: 52042101
              Contributor  : Directoria de Hidrografia e Navegacao              
                             Banco Nacional de Dados Oceangraficos
                             Rua Barao de Jaceguai, S/N 24040                   
                             Ponta de Armacao                                   
                             RJ, Niteroi                                        
                             BRAZIL                                             
              Originator   : Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
                             (IBGE)
                             Av. Brasil, 15671, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21241-051
              Original Data: digital
              Instrmnt Type: DIGILEVEL (electronic staff inside stilling well)
              Digitzd Intvl: 5 minutes
              Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:     
                    Hourly : spot hourly (5 minute sample ending 1) 2001-2004
                             2-min after the hour 2) 2005 exactly on 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 : 13 Jul 2001 - 31 Dec 2008
              Gaps > 1 mon : 08 Oct 2001 - 18 Dec 2001;28 Oct 2002 - 30 Dec 2002
                             31 Mar 2007 - 01 Jun 2007
              Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23)   Space-filler Flag   :-9999     
              Units        : millimeters         Missing Data Flag   : 9999     
              Existing     : Yes                 Operational         : Yes      
              Sat. Trans.  : No                  Distribution        : 2001-2008
              Refernce Levl: The data have been linked to tide station zero by
                             the originators.  
              Comment      : The data appear of good quality except for
                             some data gaps and short-lived timing shifts.
                                                                 
                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              2001  28 281-352              none            255-261
              2002  82 132-135,301-364      none            none
              2003  98 310-317              (16)281-(15)282 298-300
              2004  92 29-41,266-274,304-   (16)296-(23)296 296-305,315-320
                       306,322-331
              2005  98 53-60,104-105        (03)148-(02)149 none
                                            (03)201-(02)202
                                            (13)263-(02)264
                                            (03)292-(11)292
                                            (12)300-(02)301
              2006  86 101-106,134-152,     (03)032-(11)032 6-28
                       253-267,316-329      (08)084-(18)084
              2007  74 90-152,159-191       none            16-19,32-34
              2008  99 260-261,264-268      none            15-25,34-36,332