GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
| General | |
| GLOSS number | 33 |
| Station name | Colombo |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Time zone | 82.5E, GMT + 5.5hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 6.93333 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | 79.85 |
| Ocean | Indian |
| Observation period(s) | 1934-1957, 1953-1965, 1989- |
| Responsible country | Sri Lanka |
| 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 | Sri_Lanka |
| Committed to GLOSS | No |
| Operational | Yes |
| Location map |  |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | Yes |
| Pressure | No |
| Bubbler | No |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Data acquisition rate | Hourly intervals |
| High frequency data at UHSLC |    |
| Real-time data available | No |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | Yes (Monthly metric data only available) |
| MSL method | average of daily values |
| PSMSL code | 1755 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 115 |
| 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 | 2002-12-11 |
