QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                       updated: 20 Apr 2009
              Station  : Puerto Cortes-B           Latitude:  15 50.1N
              Country  : Honduras                 Longitude: 087 52.2W
              JASL #   : 780B                 Time Meridian: 090W (GMT - 6 hr)
              GLOSS #  : none Originator #:9650593   NODC #: 71085701 
              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 : 31 Jan 2001 - 01 Feb 2002
              Gaps > 1 mon : none
              Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23)   Space-filler Flag   :-9999     
              Units        : millimeters         Missing Data Flag   : 9999     
              Existing     : Yes                 Operational         : No      
              Sat. Trans.  : No                  Distribution        : 2001-2002
              Refernce Levl: All heights have been referred to the station datum
                             which is linked to fixed bench marks.
              Comment      : The data are of good quality.  780B is separate
                             from 780A, since each has a unique
                             zero reference.
                                                                                
                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              2001  92 none                 none            none
              2002   9 none                 none            none