Quality assessment of sea level data by the TOGA sea level Center/National Oceanographic Data Center Joint Archive for Sea Level
Station
San Juan,Puerto Rico
Latitude
18° 27.6' N
Country
USA
Longitude
066° 07.0' W
JASL #
245A
Time Meridian
060° W (GMT - 4 hr)
GLOSS #
206
TOGA #
None
NODC #
71068601
Contributor:
National Ocean Service (NOS), National Ocean. and Atmos. Administration (NOAA), Rockville, Maryland 20852
Originator:
Same
Original Data:
Digital
Instrument Type:
Analog-to-Digital Recorder (ADR)
Digitised Interval:
6 minute
Present Data:
Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:
Hourly:
Discrete sampling 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:
01 January 1985 - 31 December 1990
Gaps > 1 Month:
31 May 1988 - 05 September 1988; 12 October 1988 - 06 March 1989
Time Reference:
GMT (hours 00-23)
Space-filler Flag:
-9999
Units:
Millimetres
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 values do not show any obvious shifts or trends and agree well with Magueyes Island in SW Puerto Rico. The monthly plot reveals a consistent annual signal. The sharp peak on 18 September 1989 is due to Hurricane Hugo.
