Lumut (Malaysia) Data Quality Assessment
Quality assessment of sea level data by the TOGA Sea Level Centre/National Oceanographic Data Center Joint Archive for Sea Level.
| Station | Lumut | Latitude | 04° 14.4' N |
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| Country | Malaysia | Longitude | 100° 36.8' E |
| JASL # | 143A | Time Meridian | 120° E (GMT + 8 hr) |
| GLOSS # | 043 | TOGA # | I034 |
| NODC # | 10104001 |
| Contributor: | Dept. of Survey and Mapping, Jalan Gurney, 50578 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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| Originator: | Same |
| Original Data: | Digital; samples taken every 10 sec; 50 sec average |
| Instrument Type: | Magnetic Tape Type Tide Gauge, Model LLT- 3AD (Kyowa Shoko Co. LTD, Japan) |
| Digitized Interval: | One hour |
| Present Data: | Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by: |
| Hourly: | Five-point least squares approximation (more information available from the address above). |
| 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: | 12 December 1984 - 08 January 1987 |
| Gaps > 1 Month: | None |
| Time Reference: | GMT (hours 00-23) |
| Space-filler Flag: | -9999 |
| Units: | Millimeters |
| Missing Data Flag: | 99999 |
| Reference Level: | The sea level heights are referred to the zero point assigned to the tide gauge. Bench mark information is available upon request from the contributors. |
| Comment: | The daily and monthly means of Lumut and an adjacent station, Langkawi, agree very well. |
