Quality assessment of sea level data by the TOGA Sea Level Center/National Oceanographic Data Center Joint Archive for Sea Level.
Station
Chendering
Latitude
05° 15.9' N
Country
Malaysia
Longitude
103° 11.2' E
JASL #
320A
Time Meridian
120 °E (GMT + 8 hr)
GLOSS #
293
TOGA #
P006
NODC #
10105301
Contributor:
Dept. of Survey and Mapping, Jalan Gurney,50578 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Originator:
same
Original Data:
digital; samples taken every 10 sec; 50 sec average
Instrument Type:
Magnetic Tape Type Tide Gauge, Model LLT-3AD (Kyowa Shoko Co. LTD, Japan)
Digitized Interval:
One hour
Present Data:
Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by:
Hourly:
Five-point least squares approximation (more information available from the address above)
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:
30 Oct 1984 - 21 Jan 1987
Gaps > 1 mon :
None
Time Reference:
GMT (hours 00-23)
Space-filler Flag:
-9999
Units:
Millimeters
Missing Data Flag:
99999
Reference Level:
The sea level heights are referred to the zero point assigned to the tide gauge. Bench mark information is available upon request from the contributors.
Comment:
The daily and monthly means of Chendering and an adjacent station, Kuantan, agree very well.
