GLOSS Station Handbook – Majuro

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Station information

General
Gloss number	112
Station name	Majuro
Country	Marshall Is.
Time zone	180E, GMT + 12hrs
Latitude (+ve N)	7.1
Longitude (+ve E)	171.36666
Ocean	Pacific
Observation periods	1975-
Responsible country	U.S.A.
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	USA
Committed to GLOSS	Yes
Operational	Yes
Location map
Instrumentation
Float	Yes
Pressure	No
Bubbler	No
Acoustic	No
Radar	No
Data
Digital data	Yes
Data acquisition rate	15 minute intervals, filtered to hourly values
Fast delivery data at UHSLC	Data 005 File format
High frequency data at BODC	Data 112 Document 77230 Document 57222
High frequency data at UHSLC	Data 005a Data 005b Document 005a Document 005b File format
Real-time data available	Yes
Real-time data transmitted to GLOSS Fast Centre
Additional parameters (real-time)	None
Benchmarks
Tide gauge benchmark	BM1 SS bolt, no stamp, embedded in the concrete roadway to the dock next to the curb about 2 ft south of tide station foundation
Auxiliary benchmarks	BM2:SS bolt embedded in the corner of the concrete slab by electrical vault which is on the NW side of the freezer of fishery pier. BM4:SS bolt, no stamp, embedded in concrete curb of the copra dock road way at the top of the incline just past the power station pump house. BM3A: replaces BM3, on rise near the guard rail at SW corner of freezer plant, 5ft from BM3.
Data at PSMSL
Annual MSL (RLR) data	RLR 1838 RLR 1217
Annual MSL (RLR) plot
MSL method	average of daily values
PSMSL code	1838
Other relevant codes	UHSLC 005
Additional information
Other relevant information	Backup gauge on site: Handar encoder (August 1983-). 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	5 December 1993