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New stations added in the Caribbean (6) & Italy (20)

Added on: 2013-12-19 20:27:41 by Aarup, Thorkild
In December 2013, six new sea level stations were installed in the Caribbean at George Town (Cayman Islands), Puerto Barrios (Guatemala), Basseterre (St. Kitts & Nevis), Port au Prince (Haïti), Jacmel (Haïti) and Calliaqua (Saint Vincent & Grenadines). ...

Reporting to the GLOSS GE 13 meeting - Improved robustness of the Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility

Added on: 2013-11-12 10:20:29 by Vanhoorne, Bart
Over the past year VLIZ has invested resources in enhancing the Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility and in improving system redundancy and uptime. ...

89 new stations added in 2013

Added on: 2013-07-29 11:12:52 by Aarup, Thorkild
In 2013, 89 new stations have been added to the sea level station monitoring facility by Antigua, Barbados, Chile, Colombia, France, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Oman, Peru, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago and Vanuatu.

NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS) stations are now redundant

Added on: 2012-12-06 16:36:38 by Vanhoorne, Bart
The real-time data from the NOS stations are now provided via both web service and GTS. This should give the system a better reliability if one of them fails.

The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) recently updated its implementation plan

Added on: 2012-12-06 15:53:13 by Aarup, Thorkild
The focus of the GLOSS Implementation Plan 2012 remains the GLOSS Core Network and the datasets that result from this network. ...

UK: 50+ stations added

Added on: 2012-09-28 10:34:04 by Vanhoorne, Bart
More than 50 stations from the UK have been added. ...

Background

The objective of this service is
  • to provide information about the operational status of global and regional networks of real time sea level stations
  • to provide a display service for quick inspection of the raw data stream from individual stations.

This web-site initially focused on operational monitoring of sea level measuring stations in Africa and was developed from collaboration between Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) and the ODINAFRICA project of IODE. The site has since been expanded to a global station monitoring service for real time sea level measuring stations that are part of IOC programmes i.e. (i) the Global Sea Level Observing System Core Network; and (ii) the networks under the regional tsunami warning systems in the Indian Ocean (IOTWS), North East Atlantic & Mediterranean (NEAMTWS), Pacific (PTWS) and the Caribbean (CARIBE-EWS).

Long-term mean sea level (MSL) data

This GLOSS data center focusses on collecting and redistributing high frequency, relative sea level data in real-time.
Most stations provide values every minute and are updated each 5 minutes.
The GLOSS data centers at the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL), the British Oceanographic Data Center (BODC) and the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center (UHSLC) perform the additional processing steps needed to calculate long-term mean sea level (MSL) data at hourly, daily, monthly and yearly averages.
Where available, the station detail page links to these mean sea level data series

Citation

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) (2026): Sea level station monitoring facility. Accessed at http://www.ioc-sealevelmonitoring.org on 2026-02-03 at VLIZ. DOI: 10.14284/482

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