San Juan (Puerto Rico) Data Quality Assessment
Quality assessment of sea level data by the TOGA sea level Center/National Oceanographic Data Center Joint Archive for Sea Level
| Station | San Juan,Puerto Rico | Latitude | 18° 27.6' N |
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| Country | USA | Longitude | 066° 07.0' W |
| JASL # | 245A | Time Meridian | 060° W (GMT - 4 hr) |
| GLOSS # | 206 | TOGA # | None |
| NODC # | 71068601 |
| Contributor: | National Ocean Service (NOS), National Ocean. and Atmos. Administration (NOAA), Rockville, Maryland 20852 |
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| Originator: | Same |
| Original Data: | Digital |
| Instrument Type: | Analog-to-Digital Recorder (ADR) |
| Digitised Interval: | 6 minute |
| Present Data: | Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by: |
| Hourly: | Discrete sampling on the hour |
| 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 1985 - 31 December 1990 |
| Gaps > 1 Month: | 31 May 1988 - 05 September 1988; 12 October 1988 - 06 March 1989 |
| Time Reference: | GMT (hours 00-23) |
| Space-filler Flag: | -9999 |
| Units: | Millimetres |
| Missing Data Flag: | 99999 |
| Reference Level: | All heights have been referred to the station tide staff zero which is linked to fixed bench marks |
| Comment: | The daily and monthly values do not show any obvious shifts or trends and agree well with Magueyes Island in SW Puerto Rico. The monthly plot reveals a consistent annual signal. The sharp peak on 18 September 1989 is due to Hurricane Hugo. |
