GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
| General | |
| GLOSS number | 112 |
| Station name | Majuro |
| Country | Marshall Is. |
| Time zone | 180E, GMT + 12hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 7.1 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | 171.36666 |
| Ocean | Pacific |
| Observation period(s) | 1975- |
| Responsible country | U.S.A. |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | Dr. M. Merrifield, University of Hawaii, Dept. of Oceanography, 1000 Pope Road MSB 307, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, U.S.A. |
| GLOSS contact | USA |
| Committed to GLOSS | Yes |
| Operational | Yes |
| Location map |  |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | Yes |
| Pressure | No |
| Bubbler | No |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Data acquisition rate | 15 minute intervals, filtered to hourly values |
| Fast delivery data at UHSLC |   |
| High frequency data at BODC |  |
| High frequency data at UHSLC | |
| Real-time data available | Yes |
| Real-time data transmitted to GLOSS Fast Centre |  |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmarks | BM1 SS bolt, no stamp, embedded in the concrete roadway to the dock next to the curb about 2 ft south of tide station foundation |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | BM2:SS bolt embedded in the corner of the concrete slab by electrical vault which is on the NW side of the freezer of fishery pier. BM4:SS bolt, no stamp, embedded in concrete curb of the copra dock road way at the top of the incline just past the power station pump house. BM3A: replaces BM3, on rise near the guard rail at SW corner of freezer plant, 5ft from BM3. |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
| MSL method | average of daily values |
| PSMSL code | 1838 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 005 |
| Additional information | |
| Other relevant information | Backup gauge on site: Handar encoder (August 1983-). 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 |
