GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
| General | |
| GLOSS number | 247 |
| Station name | Xiamen |
| Country | China, People's Rep. |
| Time zone | 120E, GMT + 8hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 24.45 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | 118.06666 |
| Ocean | Pacific |
| Observation period(s) | 1905- |
| Responsible country | China, People's Rep. |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | East China Sea Branch, SOA, 817 Pudong Main Street, Shanghai 200120, China |
| GLOSS contact | China |
| Committed to GLOSS | Yes |
| Operational | Yes |
| Location map |  |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | Yes |
| Pressure | No |
| Bubbler | No |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Additional parameters | Surface T and S, wave and meteorological parameters |
| Data acquisition rate | Recording at hourly intervals |
| High frequency data at UHSLC |    |
| Real-time data available | No |
| Additional parameters (real-time) | Surface T and S, wave and meteorological parameters |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmarks | TGBM (BM72831) is in front of 17# building of Lujiao Road, Xiamen, 4.8m NW of the well and 160m SW of the tide gauge. |
| Benchmark relationships | Tide Gauge Zero (TGZ) = datum level of Xiamen after 1 January 1976 TGZ = 8.788m below the BM72831 after 31 December 1975 TGZ = 3.242m below the MSL of the Yellow Sea (1956-old) TGZ = 3.281m below the MSL of the Yellow Sea (1985-new) |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | 1685 (Aux.) is at the SE corner of No. 111 building of Lujiao Road, Xiamen and 82m SW of the present tide gauge. |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot |  |
| MSL method | Mo (over hourly values) |
| PSMSL code | 727 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 376 |
| Additional information | |
| Other relevant information | Tide Gauge on the Rock of the River Center once used from 1905 - April 1951, about 700m NNW of the present tide gauge. |
| Nearest Met. station | Xiamen MS |
| Last updated | 2002-12-11 |
