GLOSS Station Handbook – Pago Pago, American Samoa
The GLOSS Station Handbook is currently being re-designed and upgraded.
Until a new version is available, the tide gauge station list below from the last version of the Handbook provides links to further details about each tide gauge in the GLOSS Core Network. Click column headings to sort the station list table. Click the GLOSS number buttons to view the station information.
Station information
| General | |
|---|---|
| Gloss number | 144 |
| Station name | Pago Pago, American Samoa |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Time zone | 165W, GMT - 11hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | -14.28333 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | -170.68333 |
| Ocean | Pacific |
| Observation periods | 1948-, upgrade due 2007 |
| Responsible country | U.S.A. |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | NOAA, National Ocean Service, 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3281, USA |
| GLOSS contact | USA |
| Committed to GLOSS | Yes |
| Operational | Yes |
| Location map | |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | Yes |
| Pressure | No |
| Bubbler | Yes |
| Acoustic | Yes |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Additional parameters | Sea surface temperature, density, barometric pressure |
| Data acquisition rate | Digital gauge: 6 minute interval (after 1977) Analog gauge: hourly heights (before 1977) |
| Fast delivery data at UHSLC | Data 056 File format |
| High frequency data at BODC | Data 144 Document 57454 Document 83902 |
| High frequency data at UHSLC | Data 056a Document 056a File format |
| Data held at national organisation | Yes |
| Real-time data available | Yes |
| Real-time data transmitted to GLOSS Fast Centre | |
| Additional parameters (real-time) | None |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmark | Benchmark M 1983 is the primary benchmark stamped '0000 M 1983' set in a bedrock outcrop at the southernmost corner of the wall surrounding the Government Estate. |
| Benchmark relationships | TGBM is 13.20ft above Tide Gauge Zero (Station Datum) NOAA Chart Datum (MLLW) is 2.48ft above Station Datum Mean Sea Level (1960-1978) is 3.83ft above Station Datum |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | 8 additional benchmarks are levelled to the TGBM and the Tide Station on a yearly basis (BM K, BM 1, BM 13, BM 14, BM N, BM 10, BM P, BM Q). New benchmarks established (July 1993) BMs R, S, T, U and V. |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | RLR 539 |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
| PSMSL code | 539 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 056 |
| Additional information | |
| Other relevant information | GPS nearby |
| Last updated | 5 December 1993 |
Location map
Pago Pago, American Samoa, U.S.A.
Real time data plot
Pago Pago, American Samoa, U.S.A.
