QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                                                                
              Station  : Diego Garcia-B            Latitude:  07 14.0S          
              Country  : United Kingdom           Longitude: 072 26.0E          
              JASL #   : 104B                 Time Meridian: 090E (GMT + 6 hr)
              GLOSS #  : 026      TOGA #: I050       NODC #: 30077201           
              Contributor  : Scripps Institute of Oceanography                  
                             University of California at San Diego              
                             La Jolla, California 92093                         
              Originator   : unconfirmed                                        
              Original Data: unconfirmed                                        
              Instrmnt Type: unconfirmed                                        
              Digitzd Intvl: unconfirmed                                        
              Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:     
                    Hourly : unconfirmed                                        
                    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 1969 - 30 Jun 1969                          
              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        : 1969-1969
              Refernce Levl: The sea level heights are referred to the zero     
                             point assigned to the tide gauge.                  
              Comment      : The daily and monthly means appear reasonable.     
                                                                                
                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              1969  41 none                 none            39-41,47,49,62,93