Sealevel Station Catalog (SSC)

Station catalog metadata [edit]

[station overview]

SSC ID

SSC-xiam

Station Name

Xiamen

Country

China

Latitude

24.45

Longitude

118.06666

DateLastModified

2015-10-22 19:02:29

Linked codes

Codes

Location

Latitude

Longitude

Sensors

GLOSS: 247

Xiamen

24.45

118.06666

Float

UHSLC: 376

Xiamen

24.45

118.067

N/A

PSMSL: 727

XIAMEN

24.45

118.066667

N/A

SONEL_GPS: 2087

XIAMEN

24.45000000

118.07000000

N/A

SONEL_TG: 2449

XIAMEN

24.44763000

118.07092600

N/A

Distributed metadata source: GLOSS Station Handbook

Time Zone

120E, GMT + 8hrs

Ocean

Pacific

Operational

Yes

Data acquisition rate

Recording at hourly intervals

Additional parameters

Surface T and S, wave and meteorological parameters

Tide gauge benchmarks

TGBM (BM72831) is in front of 17# building of Lujiao Road, Xiamen, 4.8m NW of the well and 160m SW of the tide gauge.

Benchmark relationships

Tide Gauge Zero (TGZ) = datum level of Xiamen after 1 January 1976 TGZ = 8.788m below the BM72831 after 31 December 1975 TGZ = 3.242m below the MSL of the Yellow Sea (1956-old) TGZ = 3.281m below the MSL of the Yellow Sea (1985-new)

Auxiliary benchmarks

1685 (Aux.) is at the SE corner of No. 111 building of Lujiao Road, Xiamen and 82m SW of the present tide gauge.

Other relevant information

Tide Gauge on the Rock of the River Center once used from 1905 - April 1951, about 700m NNW of the present tide gauge.

Other relevant codes

UHSLC 376

Nearest Met. station

Xiamen MS

UHSLC id	376
SSC id	xiam
GLOSS id	247
UHSLC geojson	https://uhslc.soest.hawaii.edu/data/meta.geojson
Research quality data version a	1954-01-01 - 1997-12-30 Data daily - hourly CSV daily - hourly NetCDF daily - hourly THREDDS Data Server daily - hourly Meta
RQ basin	pacific

Name	XIAMEN
GLOSS id	247
UHSLC ID	376
Is RLR	Y
Has RLR Diagram	Y link
QC Flag	N
Old ID	610/005
Last Updated	2007-11-05
Supplier	NATIONAL MARINE DATA AND INFORMATION SERVICE (NMDIS)
Address	National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS), No. 93 Liuwei Road, Tianjin 300171, CHINA
Metric Start	1954
Metric End	2004
Metric Completeness	99.2
RLR Start	1954
RLR End	2004
RLR Completeness	99.2
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