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General                                  
GLOSS number28
Station name

Male

CountryMaldives
Time zone075E, GMT + 5hrs
Latitude (+ve N)4.16666
Longitude (+ve E)73.5
OceanIndian
Observation period(s)1987-
Responsible countryU.S.A.
Authority responsible
for tide gauge
Meteorology Station, Addu Development Authority, Gan, Republic of Maldives
GLOSS contactMaldives
Committed to GLOSSNo
OperationalYes
Instrumentation 
FloatNo
PressureNo
BubblerYes
AcousticNo
RadarNo
Data
Digital dataYes
Data acquisition rateHourly intervals
Fast delivery data at UHSLCDownload h108.dat from UHSLC   Format documentation for UHSLC data
High frequency data at BODCDownload g028a.zip from BODC  Download g028b.zip from BODC   View Male site history   View BODC document #58977  
High frequency data at UHSLCDownload h108a.zip from UHSLC   Download documentation qa108a.dmt from UHSLC   Download h108b.zip from UHSLC   Download documentation qa108b.dmt from UHSLC   Format documentation for UHSLC data
Real-time data availableNo
Real-time data transmitted
to GLOSS Fast Centre
Real-time data plots from UHSLC
Data at PSMSL 
Annual MSL (RLR) dataDownload annual MSL (RLR) data for Male
Annual MSL (RLR) plotView annual MSL (RLR) plot for Male
MSL methodaverage of daily values
PSMSL code1753
Other relevant codesUHSLC 108
Additional information 
Other relevant informationDaily 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 updated1993-12-05