QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                       updated: 02 Jun 2006
              Station  : South Caicos, Bahamas     Latitude:  21 29.0N
              Country  : UK                       Longitude: 071 32.0W
              JASL #   : 720A                 Time Meridian: 075W (GMT - 5 hr)  
              GLOSS #  : none Originator #:          NODC #: 72071101
              Contributor  : Florida Institute of Technology and
                             Atlantic Oceanogrpahic and Meteorological Lab
                             National Ocean. and Atmos. Administration (NOAA)   
              Originator   : same                                               
              Original Data: digital 
              Instrmnt Type: Aquatrak acoustic gauge 
              Digitzd Intvl: six-minute 
              Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:     
                    Hourly : spot 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 : 01 Jan 1992 - 08 Dec 1992
              Gaps > 1 mon : none
              Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23)   Space-filler Flag   :-9999     
              Units        : millimeters         Missing Data Flag   : 9999     
              Existing     : unconfirmed         Operational         : ?
              Sat. Trans.  : unconfirmed         Distribution        : 1992-1992
              Refernce Levl: 4 local benchmarks used to determine site 
                             stability.  Local levelling to station datum
                             which was established on 13 November 1991.
              Comment      : Data for the last half of Dec 1991 were 
                             corrupted.
                            
                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              1992  76 103-104,152-180,236- (13)080-(03)081 none
                       243,248-249,254-273,
                       329-333