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WCRP/IOC Conference: Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts 10-14 July 2017, New York

Added on: 2016-12-06 11:41:31 by Aarup, Thorkild
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), jointly with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC), is organizing an international conference on sea level research that will address the existing challenges in describing and predicting regional sea level changes, and in quantifying the intrinsic uncertainties, 10-14 July 2017, Columbia University, New York. ...

2015: Record use of Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility

Added on: 2016-01-20 17:38:46 by Aarup, Thorkild
The number of active stations that are tracked by the facility is now 829 - an increase of 50 stations during 2015. For the year the accumulated number of web-hits was 508.85M as compared ...

Status report of the SEA LEVEL STATION MONITORING FACILITY & SEA LEVEL STATION CATALOG

Added on: 2015-11-05 13:28:28 by Vanhoorne, Bart
The progress report presented at the GLOSS Group of Experts 14 (GLOSS-GE-14) meeting in Goa, India 21-23 October 2015 is now available.

2014: Another busy year for the Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility

Added on: 2015-01-05 16:41:56 by Aarup, Thorkild
The number of active stations that are tracked by the facility is now 785 stations. Since the beginning of the year 2014, 52 stations have been added from 12 countries (Chile, China, Greenland (Kingdom of Denmark), France, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Mexico, Monaco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Spain). ...

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 2026-06-18 at VLIZ. DOI: 10.14284/482

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