GLOSS Station Handbook
Station information sheet
General | |
GLOSS number | 7 |
Station name | Mogadishu |
Country | Somalia |
Time zone | 045E, GMT + 3hrs |
Latitude (+ve N) | 2.01666 |
Longitude (+ve E) | 45.33333 |
Ocean | Indian |
Observation period(s) | 1988- |
Responsible country | Somalia |
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 | Somalia |
Committed to GLOSS | No |
Operational | No |
Location map | ![]() |
Instrumentation | |
Float | Yes |
Pressure | No |
Bubbler | No |
Acoustic | No |
Radar | No |
Data | |
Digital data | Yes |
Data acquisition rate | Hourly intervals |
Real-time data available | No |
Data at PSMSL | |
MSL method | average of daily values |
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 | 1992-09-26 |