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INST_TYPE: "FLOAT GAUGE" DATA_TYPE: "TIME" DATA_SUBTYPE: "H" DATA_ORIGIN: "UHSLC" COORD_SYSTEM: "GEOGRAPHICAL" Conventions: "EPIC-CDF/TIME" EXPERIMENT: "WOCE" PROJECT: "FAST" MOORING: "087" DELTA_T: "HOURLY" VAR_DESC: "SEA LEVEL" DESCRIPT: "AVERAGE DATA" VAR_FILL: "1.e35" DRIFTER: 0 WATER_DEPTH: 0 FILL_FLAG: 1 PROG_CMNT1: "conversion from ascii" COMPOSITE: 0 POS_CONST: 0 DEPTH_CONST: 0 WOCETIME: "YYYYMMDDhh" WOCEstartTIME_HOURLY: 1961010100 WOCEendTIME_HOURLY: 1995013123 MINIMUM_SLH_VALUE_HOURLY: 0.945 MAXIMUM_SLH_VALUE_HOURLY: 4.733 DOC_001: " " DOC_002: " QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF SEA LEVEL DATA " DOC_003: " by the " DOC_004: " UH SEA LEVEL CENTER/NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER " DOC_005: " JOINT ARCHIVE FOR SEA LEVEL " DOC_006: " " DOC_007: "Station : Quepos Latitude: 09 24.0N " DOC_008: "Country : Costa Rica Longitude: 084 10.0W " DOC_009: "JASL # : 087A Time Meridian: 090W (GMT - 6 hr) " DOC_010: "GLOSS # : 167 TOGA #: P078 NODC #: 70089401 " DOC_011: "Contributor : SERMAR, Instituto Meteorologico Nacional " DOC_012: " Apartado 7-3350 " DOC_013: " San Jose, COSTA RICA " DOC_014: " and for the 1987-1992 ADR data, collaboration with " DOC_015: " Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteor. Lab. (AOML) " DOC_016: " 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway " DOC_017: " Miami, Florida 33149 " DOC_018: " and " DOC_019: " UH Sea Level Center " DOC_020: " 1000 Pope Rd. MSB 317 " DOC_021: " Honolulu, Hawaii 9682 " DOC_022: " The 1961-1965 data were obtained from " DOC_023: " Scripps Institute of Oceanography " DOC_024: " University of California at San Diego " DOC_025: " La Jolla, California " DOC_026: "Originator : same " DOC_027: "Original Data: analog (standard); digital (ADR) " DOC_028: "Instrmnt Type: Standard mechanical float type tide gauge (1961-65) " DOC_029: " Leupold Stevens analog-to-digital recorder (ADR) " DOC_030: " (11/1986-present) (backup); Fischer and Porter " DOC_031: " ADR (4/1992-) " DOC_032: "Digitzd Intvl: one hour (standard); 6 minute (ADR) " DOC_033: "Present Data : Hourly, daily, and monthly values obtained by: " DOC_034: " Hourly : Spot sample on the hour (analog and LS ADR); " DOC_035: " 3-pt Hanning centered on the hour (FP ADR) " DOC_036: " Daily : 119-point convolution filter (Bloomfield, 1976) " DOC_037: " centered on noon applied to the hourly data " DOC_038: " with respective periods of the 95, 50, and 5% " DOC_039: " amplitude points at 124.0, 60.2, and 40.2 hours " DOC_040: " Monthly: Simple average of all daily values; calculated if " DOC_041: " 7 or fewer days are missing " DOC_042: "Span of data : 01 Jan 1961 - 31 Dec 1994 " DOC_043: "Gaps > 1 mon : 01 Jan 1966 - 31 Dec 1970;1 Mar - 4 Apr 1973; " DOC_044: " 30 Aug 1991 - 02 Oct 1991; 01 Jan - 01 Feb 1992 " DOC_045: "Time Refernce: GMT (hours 00-23) Space-filler Flag :-9999 " DOC_046: "Units : millimeters Missing Data Flag : 9999 " DOC_047: "Existing : Yes Operational : Yes " DOC_048: "Sat. Trans. : No Distribution : 1961-1994 " DOC_049: "Refernce Levl: The data have been linked to tide staff zero by " DOC_050: " the contributors. However, further analysis " DOC_051: " of the data has led to adjustments of the " DOC_052: " reference level in separate segments. All " DOC_053: " suspected shifts showed step function jumps in the " DOC_054: " plots of hourly residuals and of differences of " DOC_055: " daily values with the nearest stations. These ad- " DOC_056: " justments contain uncertainty to a few centimeters. " DOC_057: " period value added " DOC_058: " ( (hour)day/month/year ) to original(mm) " DOC_059: " --------------------------- --------------- " DOC_060: " (00)02/05/72 - (16)01/06/72 80 " DOC_061: " (16)01/06/77 - (16)01/07/77 100 " DOC_062: " (16)01/09/79 - (16)01/10/79 100 " DOC_063: " (16)01/11/83 - (16)01/12/83 -130 " DOC_064: " (12)01/06/82 - (16)26/04/84 100 " DOC_065: " (17)01/02/86 - (15)01/03/86 -180 " DOC_066: " (16)01/03/86 - (12)01/04/86 40 " DOC_067: " (13)01/04/86 - (22)01/05/86 260 " DOC_068: " (13)29/03/86 - (01)03/08/86 -100 " DOC_069: "Comment : The data from the standard analog gauge showed " DOC_070: " many distinct shifts at the beginning of some " DOC_071: " months throughout the record. All obvious shifts " DOC_072: " have been adjusted as noted above; however, the " DOC_073: " long-term reference level stability is uncertain. " DOC_074: " The analog data from 1 Apr 1988 - 30 Sep 1990 were " DOC_075: " replaced with ADR data which also have been linked " DOC_076: " to tide staff zero. The ADR data were used to fill " DOC_077: " small gaps in the analog record (see # below) and " DOC_078: " analog data were used to fill gaps in the ADR (*). " DOC_079: " Data from 1 - 17 Jun 1991 appear 15 cm high. Severe " DOC_080: " timing errors associated with gauge problems " DOC_081: " occurred from Sep - Nov 1985. The timing has an " DOC_082: " uncertainty of about +/- 7 minutes. The hourly " DOC_083: " residuals of the ADR data show considerable noise; " DOC_084: " thus the hourly ADR data are of less quality than " DOC_085: " the daily or monthly ADR data. As of 4/92, the " DOC_086: " FP ADR is the primary gauge. " DOC_087: " " DOC_088: " CI MISSING REPLACED GAPS QUESTIONABLE " DOC_089: "YEAR (%) DATA OR BAD DATA FLUCTUATIONS " DOC_090: "---- --- -------------------- --------------- -------------------- " DOC_091: "1961 99 1 none none " DOC_092: "1962 100 none none none " DOC_093: "1963 100 none (15)055-(12)056 none " DOC_094: "1964 99 30-33 none none " DOC_095: "1965 100 none (14)288-(00)289 none " DOC_096: "1966 0 1-365 none none " DOC_097: "1967 0 1-365 none none " DOC_098: "1968 0 1-366 none none " DOC_099: "1969 0 1-365 none none " DOC_100: "1970 0 1-365 none none " DOC_101: "1971 99 290-292 (10)087-(03)088 247-248,335-336, " DOC_102: " (20)116-(05)117 359-360 " DOC_103: " (23)251-(05)252 " DOC_104: " (12)365-(23)365 " DOC_105: "1972 98 92-96 (00)001-(11)001 61-67,73-98,103-122, " DOC_106: " (12)245-(03)246 147-151,189-190,193- " DOC_107: " (12)275-(20)275 194,245,259-260 " DOC_108: "1973 88 60-94,98-106 (12)001-(20)001 47,96-98,157-158, " DOC_109: " 196-198,226-229,257- " DOC_110: " 258,262-263,270-271 " DOC_111: "1974 100 none none 27-28,62-63,166,213- " DOC_112: " 283,337 " DOC_113: "1975 91 91-121 none 1-2,40,42-43,61-62, " DOC_114: " 73,81-83,91,237,252 " DOC_115: "1976 99 300-301 (15)351-(21)351 212 " DOC_116: " (17)357-(16)358 " DOC_117: "1977 98 22-24,31-32, none 45,62,159,216-217 " DOC_118: " 146-148 " DOC_119: "1978 99 87-88,152-154 (22)046-(21)047 86-87,148-151,305 " DOC_120: "1979 100 none none none " DOC_121: "1980 100 none none 3,364 " DOC_122: "1981 100 none none 176,206-212 " DOC_123: "1982 100 none none none " DOC_124: "1983 100 none none 134-135,170 " DOC_125: "1984 100 none none 186,299,302 " DOC_126: "1985 90 139-141,188-196, none 148,221-222,242-271, " DOC_127: " 200-204,271-274, 274-280,295-308, " DOC_128: " 281-295,348-350 313-322 " DOC_129: "1986 98 215-217,305-309 none 12-13,264-265,312, " DOC_130: " 336,341,347-350, " DOC_131: " 357-358,362-363,365 " DOC_132: "1987 99 139-140,221-222 (00)108-(11)108 4-5,14-16,26-27, " DOC_133: " #(15)081-(17)083 29-30,41,47,49-51, " DOC_134: " #(00)272-(23)275 53-54,57-58,61,63- " DOC_135: " #(14)347-(14)349 64,67-68,72-73,77- " DOC_136: " 78,87-88,94-96,101- " DOC_137: " 103,155-156 " DOC_138: "1988 100 none (05)147-(15)147 152-160,165-167,180- " DOC_139: " 183,203-204,215,228- " DOC_140: " 230,237,254-256 " DOC_141: "1989 100 none none 244-249,264-265,283- " DOC_142: " 284,286,293-294 " DOC_143: "1990 100 none (00)227-(15)227 93,243-244,270-271 " DOC_144: " (19)281-(12)282 " DOC_145: " (02)283-(13)283 " DOC_146: " (17)287-(04)288 " DOC_147: " (07)305-(18)305 " DOC_148: " (01)331-(11)331 " DOC_149: " (16)334-(12)335 " DOC_150: " *(17)196-(13)200 " DOC_151: "1991 90 89-91,168-171, (06)001-(15)001 17-18,25,27-28,75, " DOC_152: " 243-275 (06)020-(05)021 153,164-167,209-214, " DOC_153: " (21)056-(12)057 217-230,233-242 " DOC_154: " (19)081-(12)082 " DOC_155: " (00)138-(22)138 " DOC_156: " (14)180-(01)181 " DOC_157: " #(11)015-(13)016 " DOC_158: " #(23)058-(12)060 " DOC_159: "1992 90 1-33,92-93,183-184 (06)061-(13)061 none " DOC_160: " (03)085-(12)085 " DOC_161: " (01)336-(18)336 " DOC_162: "1993 100 none none none " DOC_163: "1994 99 333-334 (18)290-(16)291 none " DOC_164: " (12)303-(01)304 " DOC_165: " (08)360-(19)360 " CREATION_DATE: "08:57 7-JUL-2006"
Variables:
time_h
: Array of 32 bit Reals [time_h = 0..298775]
time_h:
FORTRAN_format: " " units: "day since 1985-1-1 0:0:0" type: "EVEN"
depth
: Array of 32 bit Reals [depth = 0..0]
depth:
FORTRAN_format: " " units: "m" type: "EVEN" epic_code: 3
latitude
: Array of 32 bit Reals [latitude = 0..0]
latitude:
FORTRAN_format: " " units: "degree_north" type: "EVEN" epic_code: 500
longitude
: Array of 32 bit Reals [longitude = 0..0]
longitude:
FORTRAN_format: " " units: "degree_east" type: "EVEN" epic_code: 502
sea_level_h_206
: Grid
time_h:
depth:
latitude:
longitude:
name: "sea_level_h" long_name: "SEA LEVEL (hourly) " generic_name: "SLh" FORTRAN_format: "f7.3" units: "m" epic_code: 206
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