GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
| General | |
| GLOSS number | 28 |
| Station name | Male |
| Country | Maldives |
| Time zone | 075E, GMT + 5hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 4.16666 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | 73.5 |
| Ocean | Indian |
| Observation period(s) | 1987- |
| Responsible country | U.S.A. |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | Meteorology Station, Addu Development Authority, Gan, Republic of Maldives |
| GLOSS contact | Maldives |
| Committed to GLOSS | No |
| Operational | Yes |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | No |
| Pressure | No |
| Bubbler | Yes |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Data acquisition rate | Hourly intervals |
| Fast delivery data at UHSLC | |
| High frequency data at BODC | |
| High frequency data at UHSLC | |
| Real-time data available | No |
| Real-time data transmitted to GLOSS Fast Centre | |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
| MSL method | average of daily values |
| PSMSL code | 454/011 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 108 |
| Additional information | |
| Other relevant information | Daily values calculated using 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. |
| Last updated | 1993-12-05 |
Related BODC pages
| Sea level portal | World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) — Sea level | |
| UK Tide Gauge Network | Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) | |
| GLOSS project page |
Related external links
| Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) | Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) | |
| University of Hawai`i Sea Level Centre (UHSLC) | World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) |
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