GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
| General | |
| GLOSS number | 140 |
| Station name | Papeete, Tahiti |
| Country | French Polynesia |
| Time zone | 150W, GMT - 10hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | -17.53333 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | -149.56666 |
| Ocean | Pacific |
| Observation period(s) | 1975- |
| Responsible country | France/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 |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | Yes |
| Pressure | No |
| Bubbler | No |
| Acoustic | Yes |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Additional parameters | Air/sea temperature, barometric pressure, wind sensors |
| Data acquisition rate | 15 minute interval for Fisher and Porter ADR gauge 6 minute interval for Next Generation gauge |
| 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 |  |
| Additional parameters (real-time) | Air/sea temperature, barometric pressure, wind sensors |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmarks | UH-1A: 1 inch standard disk, no stamp, set in dark grey epoxy, located 35ft east of tide staff at centre of quay, established 07 Apr 1982 |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | NU-1: no description available, destroyed prior to 1982 NU-2: no description available (established 22 Sep 1969) NU-3: no description available, destroyed prior to 1982 O-C: no description available (established Jul 1989) B: no description available (established Jul 1989) Also: BM A, BM C, BM D, BM 2, BM 3, BM 4, BM 5, BM 6, BM 7 |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
| MSL method | average of daily values |
| PSMSL code | 1397 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 015 |
| Additional information | |
| Other relevant information | 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 |
