GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
| General | |
| GLOSS number | 27 |
| Station name | Gan |
| Country | Maldives |
| Time zone | 075E, GMT + 5hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | -0.7 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | 73.16666 |
| Ocean | Indian |
| Observation period(s) | 1987- |
| Responsible country | U.S.A. |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | Meteorology Station, Addu Development Authority, Gan, Republic of Maldives |
| GLOSS contact | Maldives |
| Committed to GLOSS | No |
| Operational | Yes |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | Yes |
| Pressure | No |
| Bubbler | No |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Data acquisition rate | Hourly intervals |
| 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 |  |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
| MSL method | average of daily values |
| PSMSL code | 1707 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 109 |
| 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. PSMSL hold data from another gauge at Gan (PSMSL Code 454/001 1962-1963) |
| Last updated | 1993-12-05 |
