Fort Denison (Sydney, Australia) Data Quality Assessment
Quality assessment of sea level data by the TOGA Sea Level Center/National Oceanographic Data Center Joint Archive For Sea Level
Station
Fort Denison, Sydney
Latitude
33° 51.0' S
Country
Australia
Longitude
151° 14.0' E
JASL #
333A
Time Meridian
150° E (GMT + 10 hr)
GLOSS #
057
TOGA #
None
NODC #
33153101
Contributor:
Flinders University of South Australia, School of Earth Sciences, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042
Originator:
Same
Original Data:
Unconfirmed
Instrument Type:
Unconfirmed
Digitised Interval:
Unconfirmed
Present Data:
Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:
Hourly:
Unconfirmed
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 1987
Gaps > 1 Month:
None
Time Reference:
GMT (hours 00-23)
Space-filler Flag:
-9999
Units:
Millimetres
Missing Data Flag:
99999
Reference Level:
Until notified otherwise, the sea level heights are assumed to be referred to the tide staff zero.
Comment:
The daily and monthly values are reasonable and do not reveal any obvious errors.
