GLOSS Station Handbook – San Francisco, CA
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 | |
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Gloss number | 158 |
Station name | San Francisco, CA |
Country | U.S.A. |
Time zone | 120W, GMT - 8hrs |
Latitude (+ve N) | 37.8 |
Longitude (+ve E) | -122.46666 |
Ocean | Pacific |
Observation periods | 1854-, being upgraded 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 |
Instrumentation | |
Float | Yes |
Pressure | No |
Bubbler | Yes |
Acoustic | Yes |
Radar | No |
Data | |
Digital data | Yes |
Additional parameters | Sea surface temperature, density |
Data acquisition rate | 6 minute intervals |
Fast delivery data at UHSLC | Data 551 File format |
High frequency data at BODC | Data 158 Document 69304 |
High frequency data at UHSLC | Data 551a Document 551a 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 | US C&GS tidal benchmark survey disk stamped '180 1936' set in a concrete wall at the Fort Point Coastguard Station. |
Benchmark relationships | TGBM = 13.24 feet above mean lower low water (1960-1978 epoch) TGBM = 10.11 feet above mean sea level (1960-1978 epoch) TGBM = 8.01 feet above mean high water (1960-1978 epoch) |
Auxiliary benchmarks | 174 1925 4290 J 1976 175 1925 4290 K 1976 176 1925 4290 L 1976 181 1945 4290 M 1982 NO 2 1948 CLARK 1948 |
Data at PSMSL | |
Annual MSL (RLR) data | RLR 10 |
Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
PSMSL code | 10 |
Other relevant codes | UHSLC 551 |
Additional information | |
Last updated | 5 December 1993 |