Quality assessment of sea level data by the TOGA Sea Level Centre/National Oceanographic Data Center Joint Archive for Sea Level.
Station
Aburatsu
Latitude
31° 34.0' N
Country
Japan
Longitude
131° 25.0' E
JASL #
354A
Time Meridian
135° E (GMT + 9 hr)
GLOSS #
082
TOGA #
None
NODC #
13131101
Contributor:
Japan Ocean. Data Center Hydrographic Dept. Maritime Safety Agency 3-1,Tsukiji, 5-Chome, Chuo-ku Tokyo 104 Japan
Originator:
Same
Original Data:
Unconfirmed
Instrument Type:
FUESS (1961-1972), LFT-4 (1973-1986)
Digitized 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 1961 - 31 December 1986
Gaps > 1 Month:
None
Time Reference:
GMT (hours 00-23)
Space-Filler Flag:
-9999
Units:
Millimeters
Missing Data Flag:
99999
Reference Level:
All data are referred to tide gauge zero and linked to historic fixed bench marks.
Comment:
The daily or monthly means do not reveal any obvious reference level shifts. Most questionable fluctuations are related to atmospheric or oceanographic events.
