Cocos (Australia) Data Quality Assessment

Quality Assessment of sea level data by the TOGA Sea Level Center/National Oceanographic Data Centre Joint Archive for Sea Level.

StationCocosLatitude12° 07.0' S
CountryAustraliaLongitude096° 54.0' E
JASL #171ATime Meridian105E (GMT + 6.5 hr)
GLOSS #046TOGA #I048
NODC #31092601
Contributor:CSIRO Division of Oceanography GPO Box 1538 Hobart, Tasmania 7001
Originator:Same
Original Data:Digital
Instrument Type:Leupold Stevens analog-to-digital recorder
Digitized Interval:6 minute
Present Data:Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:
Hourly:Three-point Hanning centred on the hour
Daily:119-point convolution filter (Bloomfield, 1976) centred 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:11 December 1985 - 30 September 1989
Gaps > 1 Month:31 July 1988 - 01 January 1989
Time Reference:GMT (hours 00-23)
Space-filler Flag:-9999
Units:Millimeters
Missing Data Flag:99999
Reference Level: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 reference level changes or trends.