GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
| General | |
| GLOSS number | 4 |
| Station name | Salalah |
| Country | Oman |
| Time zone | 060E, GMT + 4hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 17 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | 54 |
| Ocean | Indian |
| Observation period(s) | 1989- |
| Responsible country | Oman |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Dept. of Meteorology, Ministry of Communications. |
| GLOSS contact | Oman |
| 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 | Tide staff reading twice/day at 0645 and 1845 |
| Data acquisition rate | Data collected on paper tape at 15 minute intervals, filtered to hourly values. |
| 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 |  |
| Additional parameters (real-time) | Tide staff reading twice/day at 0645 and 1845 |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmarks | RP stainless steel 1 inch square plate glued with white epoxy to the centre of the tide gauge pedestal (formerly called the tide gauge reference plate) - 3.030m above Mean Sea Level (MSL) (10/12/96) |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | UH1 - stainless steel 1 inch square plate set in white epoxy at the left corner of the bottom step of the Met. stairwell - 3.992m above MSL (10/12/96) 0907 - round brass survey plate, with Omani shield in Arabic, east front corner foundation step of Police Building with the marking 16932 0979 - 3.722m above MSL (10/12/96) UH2 - stainless steel 1 inch square plate set in white epoxy on the east side of the second step of the bunker ruins east of the tide gauge and 21.3m east of UH1, near the oil line marker - 4.657m above MSL (10/12/96) UH3 - stainless steel 1 inch square plate glued with epoxy, not stamped, in the north east corner of the cement base of the third lamp post to the west of the tide gauge - 3.420m above MSL (10/12/96) |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | Yes (Monthly metric data only available) |
| MSL method | Computation by University of Hawaii Sea Level Centre, using hourly data |
| PSMSL code | 1754 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 114 |
| Additional information | |
| Other relevant information | Tide gauge, float sensed electromechanical recorder, installed by the University of Hawaii. Previous tide gauge was electronic pressority and was inefficient and unreliable. It was taken out of service when beyond economical repair. |
| Nearest Met. station | Raysut Met. Office |
| Last updated | 1998-10-13 |
