GLOSS Station Handbook – Papeete, Tahiti

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Station information

General
Gloss number	140
Station name	Papeete, Tahiti
Country	French Polynesia
Time zone	150W, GMT - 10hrs
Latitude (+ve N)	-17.53333
Longitude (+ve E)	-149.56666
Ocean	Pacific
Observation periods	1975-
Responsible country	France/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
Instrumentation
Float	Yes
Pressure	No
Bubbler	No
Acoustic	Yes
Radar	No
Data
Digital data	Yes
Additional parameters	Air/sea temperature, barometric pressure, wind sensors
Data acquisition rate	15 minute interval for Fisher and Porter ADR gauge 6 minute interval for Next Generation gauge
Fast delivery data at UHSLC	Data 015 File format
High frequency data at BODC	Data 140a Data 140b Document 64334 Document 57270
High frequency data at UHSLC	Data 015a Data 015b Document 015a Document 015b File format
Real-time data available	Yes
Real-time data transmitted to GLOSS Fast Centre
Additional parameters (real-time)	None
Benchmarks
Tide gauge benchmark	UH-1A: 1 inch standard disk, no stamp, set in dark grey epoxy, located 35ft east of tide staff at centre of quay, established 07 Apr 1982
Auxiliary benchmarks	NU-1: no description available, destroyed prior to 1982 NU-2: no description available (established 22 Sep 1969) NU-3: no description available, destroyed prior to 1982 O-C: no description available (established Jul 1989) B: no description available (established Jul 1989) Also: BM A, BM C, BM D, BM 2, BM 3, BM 4, BM 5, BM 6, BM 7
Data at PSMSL
Annual MSL (RLR) data	RLR 1397
Annual MSL (RLR) plot
MSL method	average of daily values
PSMSL code	1397
Other relevant codes	UHSLC 015
Additional information
Other relevant information	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