BODC FIXED STATION DOCUMENT NO.  63881                     
                                                                                
                         Site History : Ceuta-A, Spain                          
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    Station              : Ceuta-A                  Latitude:  35 54.0N         
    Country              : Spain                   Longitude: 005 19.0W         
    GLOSS No             : 249                Time Reference: GMT (hours 00-23) 
    Contributor          : Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia                    
    Instrument Type      : A.OTT, float and stilling well                       
    Site of Gauge        :                                                      
    Observational periods: 1971 - present                                       
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Reference Level:                                                            
    All  heights  have been referred to the station tide staff  zero  which  is 
    linked to fixed benchmarks.                                                 
                                                                                
    Tide gauge benchmark (TGBM) description:                                    
    Senal NAPA-7 (Instituto Geografico Nacional)                                
                                                                                
    Benchmark relationships:                                                    
    Levelling network under revision                                            
                                                                                
                                                                                
    Quality Assessment by the UH Sea Level Center:                              
                                                                                
    Comment: This series is  separate  from Ceuta-B  because  of a  level shift 
             during the data gap between 24 Aug 1974 and 01 Mar 1975. Otherwise 
             no level shifts are apparent.                                      
                                                                                
                   CI MISSING              REPLACED GAPS     QUESTIONABLE       
             YEAR (%) DATA                 OR BAD DATA       FLUCTUATIONS       
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             1971 100 none                 (19)003-(02)004 none                 
                                           (16)184-(01)185                      
                                           (17)205-(02)206                      
             1972 100 none                 none            none                 
             1973 100 none                 none            301-304              
             1974  56 60-90                none            none