GLOSS Station Handbook – Quepos
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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 | 167 |
| Station name | Quepos |
| Country | Costa Rica |
| Time zone | 090W, GMT - 6hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | 9.4 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | -84.16666 |
| Ocean | Pacific |
| Observation periods | 1957- |
| Responsible country | Costa Rica |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | A. Gutierrez, Coordinator, SERMAR-UNA, Instituto Meteorologico Nacional, P.O. Box 7-3350, San Jose 1000, Costa Rica |
| GLOSS contact | Costa Rica |
| Committed to GLOSS | No |
| Operational | Yes |
| Location map | |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | Yes |
| Pressure | No |
| Bubbler | No |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | No |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Additional parameters | Sea temperature, Sea water density |
| Data acquisition rate | USC&GS standard: continuous analogue record Leupold-Stevens: digital strip chart record, sample |
| Fast delivery data at UHSLC | Data 087 File format |
| High frequency data at BODC | Data 167 Document 60083 |
| High frequency data at UHSLC | Data 087a Document 087a File format |
| Real-time data available | No |
| Additional parameters (real-time) | None |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmark | BM-1-Q (disco de 9cm diam., en bastion concreto del muelle). En Quepos la marca se encuentra colocada 2.4metres al Sur extremo Norto del bastion de concreto en la extrada del muelle (4.8832m above IGN datum). |
| Benchmark relationships | Tide gauge zero (TGZ) = 2.8312m below IGN datum TGZ = 7.7729m below punta A TGZ = 7.7144m below BM-1-Q |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | Punta A: half a bolt welded in angle iron brace on tide staff (4.9417m above IGN datum) BM-2-Q (5.8419m above IGN datum) BM-3-Q (5.1293m above IGN datum) BM-3-Q (5.5495m above IGN datum) BM-5-Q (2.4525m above IGN datum) |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | RLR 844 |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
| MSL method | Doodson X0 filter |
| PSMSL code | 844 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 087 |
| Additional information | |
| Last updated | 20 September 1990 |
Location map
Quepos, Costa Rica
Real time data plot
Quepos, Costa Rica
