QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                       updated: 20 Nov 2019
              Station  : Santa Marta               Latitude:  11 14.1N          
              Country  : Colombia                 Longitude: 074 13.3W          
              JASL #   : 738A                 Time Meridian: 075W (GMT - 5 hr)  
              GLOSS #  : none Originator #: 738      NODC #: 71071401           
              Contributor  : University of Hawaii Sea Level Center (UHSLC)
                             1000 Pope Rd. MSB 317
                             Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
                              in collaboration with
                             Instituto de Hidrologia, Meteorologia Y
                             Estudios Ambientales
                             Ministerio de Medio Ambiente
                             Bogota, D.E., Republica de Colombia
              Originator   : same                            
              Original Data: digital 
              Instrmnt Type: 1) 9/2012- radar (RAD) gauge 
                                (Vega Vegapuls 62)
                             2) 9/2012- pressure transducer (PRS)
                             3) 9/2012- Bubbler (BUB)
                             primary: RAD
              Digitzd Intvl: RAD:2 min, PRS:2 min, BUB:10 min
              Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:     
                    Hourly : spot read on hour (LS); 
                             Hanning filter centered on the hour (UHSLC)
                    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 Oct 2012 - 31 Dec 2018
              Gaps > 1 mon : 03 May 2016 - 13 Jul 2016
              Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23)   Space-filler Flag   :-9999     
              Units        : millimeters         Missing Data Flag   : 9999     
              Existing     : Yes                 Operational         : Yes      
              Sat. Trans.  : Yes                 Distribution        : 2012-2018
              Refernce Levl: Heights are referred to the station tide staff 
                             zero, which is linked to land-based benchmarks. 
                             This reference zero is unique to this station and
                             is not an official datum (chart, national, etc.) 
                             and is not relative to local tidal parameters, 
                             such as mean lower low water.  See the Originators
                             for benchmark descriptions, maps, and the geodetic
                             levelling history.
              Comment      : Daily data agree with AVISO altimeter.

                             JASL Nov 2019 update replaces 2016- 05 Sep 2017.

                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              2012  25 none                 none            none
              2013 100 none                 (13)174-(00)175 none
                                            (00)235-(08)235
              2014 100 none                 none            none
              2015 100 none                 none            none
              2016  81 124-195              (07)058-(15)058 none
                                            (04)114-(12)114
                                            (23)114-(12)115
                                            (23)115-(12)116
                                            (23)116-(12)117
                                            (00)118-(12)118
                                            (23)118-(12)119
                                            (23)119-(12)120
                                            (00)121-(12)121
                                            (00)122-(12)122
                                            (22)122-(14)123
                                            (17)123-(14)124
              2017 100 none                 none            none
              2018 100 none                 (21)233-(13)234 none