QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA by the UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL updated: 09 Aug 2019 Station : Fajardo-B,PR Latitude: 18 20.1N Country : USA Longitude: 065 37.8W JASL # : 783B Time Meridian: 060W (GMT - 4 hr) GLOSS # : none originator #:9753216 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 : 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 : 06 Oct 2008 - 20 Sep 2017 Gaps > 1 mon : 26 Jun 2013 - 07 Aug 2013;28 Sep 2016 - 15 Nov 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 : 2008-2017 Refernce Levl: All heights have been referred to the station datum which is linked to fixed bench marks. Series 783A is separate from 783B since the reference levels are different. Comment : The data are of high quality. CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS ---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- 2008 24 none none none 2009 100 none none none 2010 100 none none none 2011 100 none none none 2012 100 none none none 2013 89 177-219 none none 2014 100 none none none 2015 100 none none none 2016 87 272-320 none none 2017 70 7-15 none none