QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA                
                                           by the                               
                   UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER     
                                 JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL                    
                                                                                
              Station  : Matavai                   Latitude:  17 31.0S
              Country  : French Polynesia         Longitude: 149 31.0W
              JASL #   : 590A                 Time Meridian: 150W (GMT - 10 hr)
              GLOSS #  : none     TOGA #: none       NODC #: 51147901
              Contributor  : Scripps Institute of Oceanography (D.Luther)
                             University of California at San Diego              
                             La Jolla, California                               
              Originator   : unconfirmed (French)
              Original Data: unconfirmed
              Instrmnt Type: unconfirmed
              Digitzd Intvl: unconfirmed
              Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:     
                    Hourly : key-punched from 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 1958 - 27 Nov 1967
              Gaps > 1 mon : 27 Jan 1959 - 26 Mar 1959;01 Mar 1962 - 03 May 1962
                             02 Jan 1963 - 31 Dec 1963;01 Jan 1965 - 27 Dec 1966
              Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23)   Space-filler Flag   :-9999     
              Units        : millimeters         Missing Data Flag   : 9999     
              Existing     : No                  Operational         : No
              Sat. Trans.  : No                  Distribution        : 1958-1967
              Refernce Levl: All heights have been referred to the station tide 
                             staff zero which is linked to fixed bench marks    
              Comment      : The daily  and monthly means reveal no apparent
                             changes in the reference level.  


                    CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE      
              YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS      
              ---- --- -------------------- --------------- --------------------
              1958  95 16-31,240-243        (10)365-(23)365 none
              1959  83 27-85,351-354        none            none
              1960  97 33-43                none            none
              1961  93 21-24,38-45,119-121, none            248-253
                       126-129,135-138,
                       309-318
              1962  83 60-123               none            none
              1963   1 2-365                none            none
              1964 100 none                 none            none
              1965   0 1-365                none            none
              1966   1 1-361                none            none
              1967  87 88-101               none            none