QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL updated: 05 Jun 2000 Station : Fajardo-A,PR Latitude: 18 20.0N Country : USA Longitude: 065 38.0W JASL # : 783A Time Meridian: 060W (GMT - 4 hr) GLOSS # : none TOGA #: none NODC #: 71068501 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 : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey; Dept. of Commerce Original Data: analog Instrmnt Type: standard float/well Digitzd Intvl: hourly Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by: Hourly : spot 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 : 16 Aug 1921 - 30 Jul 1923 Gaps > 1 mon : none Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23) Space-filler Flag :-9999 Units : millimeters Missing Data Flag : 9999 Existing : No Operational : No Sat. Trans. : No Distribution : 1921-1923 Refernce Levl: All heights have been referred to the station tide staff zero which is linked to fixed bench marks. These data were digitized at the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center. Tide staff readings were provided; however, it appears the corrections to a fixed datum were already applied to the tabulated heights. Series 783A is separate from 783B since the reference levels are different. Comment : There are no obvious reference level shifts. CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 1921 38 none none none 1922 100 none none none 1923 47 61-64,67-87,166-182 none 60,182-184