GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
General | |
GLOSS number | 28 |
Station name | Male |
Country | Maldives |
Time zone | 075E, GMT + 5hrs |
Latitude (+ve N) | 4.16666 |
Longitude (+ve E) | 73.5 |
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 | No |
Pressure | No |
Bubbler | Yes |
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 | No |
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 | 1753 |
Other relevant codes | UHSLC 108 |
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 |