QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                                                                
              Station  : Port Louis-A              Latitude:  20 09.2S          
              Country  : Mauritius                Longitude: 057 29.4E          
              JASL #   : 103A                 Time Meridian: 060E (GMT + 4 hr)  
              GLOSS #  : 018      TOGA #: I057       NODC #: 32050701           
              Contributor  : Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (IOS)          
                             Bidston Observatory, Birkenhead                    
                             Merseyside L43 7RA                                 
                             and                                                
                             Scripps Institute of Oceanography                  
                             University of California at San Diego              
                             La Jolla, California 92038                         
              Originator   : same                                               
              Original Data: analog                                             
              Instrmnt Type: Munroe, float and stilling well                    
              Digitzd Intvl: one hour spot reading                              
              Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:     
                    Hourly : The original digitizing interval was hourly        
                    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 1942 - 31 Dec 1947                          
              Gaps > 1 mon : 18 Dec 1943 - 19 Jan 1944;01 Apr 1945- 05 Jun 1945 
                             12 Nov 1945 - 31 Dec 1945                          
              Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23)   Space-filler Flag   :-9999     
              Units        : millimeters         Missing Data Flag   : 9999     
              Existing     : No                  Operational         : No       
              Sat. Trans.  : No                  Distribution        : 1942-1947
              Refernce Levl: The sea level heights are referred to the zero     
                             point assigned to the tide gauge.                  
              Comment      : The daily or monthly means do not reveal any       
                             obvious reference level changes or trends.  Data   
                             for 1942-1947 were received from two originators.  
                             The difference in daily values between the series  
                             was steady with a mean value of 3040 mm.  Thus     
                             3040 mm was added to each value of the Bidston     
                             data and then the data sets were merged.           
                                                                                
                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              1942  95 1,14-16,109-113,     none            120-121,145-146     
                       122-127,146-153                                          
              1943  96 352-365              none            154-156             
              1944  87 1-19,338-365         (13)075-(08)076 23-30,36-40,95-98,  
                                            (07)188-(19)188 191,272-278,301,314-
                                                            316,321-322,327-338 
              1945  62 14-24,32-38,         (08)190-(14)190 68-72,264           
                       48-50,90-156,                                            
                       166-167,172-174,                                         
                       304-307,316-365                                          
              1946 100 none                 (15)083-(21)083 98-100,105-106      
                                            (19)348-(08)349                     
              1947 100 none                 (09)057-(16)057 39-42,45,96-99,365  
                                            (09)058-(17)058                     
                                            (09)132-(19)132                     
                                            (11)243-(19)243