GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
| General | |
| GLOSS number | 167 |
| Station name | Quepos |
| Country | Costa Rica |
| Time zone | 090W, GMT - 6hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 9.4 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | -84.16666 |
| Ocean | Pacific |
| Observation period(s) | 1957- |
| Responsible country | Costa Rica |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | A. Gutierrez, Coordinator, SERMAR-UNA, Instituto Meteorologico Nacional, P.O. Box 7-3350, San Jose 1000, Costa Rica |
| GLOSS contact | Costa_Rica |
| Committed to GLOSS | No |
| Operational | Yes |
| Location map |  |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | Yes |
| Pressure | No |
| Bubbler | No |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Additional parameters | Sea temperature, Sea water density |
| Data acquisition rate | USC&GS standard: continuous analogue record Leupold-Stevens: digital strip chart record, sample |
| Fast delivery data at UHSLC |   |
| High frequency data at BODC |  |
| High frequency data at UHSLC | |
| Real-time data available | No |
| Additional parameters (real-time) | Sea temperature, Sea water density |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmarks | BM-1-Q (disco de 9cm diam., en bastion concreto del muelle). En Quepos la marca se encuentra colocada 2.4metres al Sur extremo Norto del bastion de concreto en la extrada del muelle (4.8832m above IGN datum). |
| Benchmark relationships | Tide gauge zero (TGZ) = 2.8312m below IGN datum TGZ = 7.7729m below punta A TGZ = 7.7144m below BM-1-Q |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | Punta A: half a bolt welded in angle iron brace on tide staff (4.9417m above IGN datum) BM-2-Q (5.8419m above IGN datum) BM-3-Q (5.1293m above IGN datum) BM-3-Q (5.5495m above IGN datum) BM-5-Q (2.4525m above IGN datum) |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot |  |
| MSL method | Doodson X0 filter |
| PSMSL code | 844 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 087 |
| Additional information | |
| Last updated | 1990-09-20 |
