GLOSS Station Handbook – Stanley, Falklands/Malvinas
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 | 305 |
| Station name | Stanley, Falklands/Malvinas |
| Country | U.K. |
| Time zone | 060W, GMT - 4hrs |
| Latitude (+ve N) | -51.75 |
| Longitude (+ve E) | -57.93333 |
| Ocean | Southern |
| Observation periods | 1988- |
| Responsible country | U.K. |
| Authority responsible for tide gauge | National Oceanography Centre, Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L3 5DA, UK |
| GLOSS contact | UK |
| Committed to GLOSS | Yes |
| Operational | Yes |
| Location map | |
| Instrumentation | |
| Float | No |
| Pressure | Yes |
| Bubbler | No |
| Acoustic | No |
| Radar | Yes |
| Data | |
| Digital data | Yes |
| Additional parameters | Sea temperature, atmospheric pressure |
| Data acquisition rate | Recording at hourly intervals, on the hour. |
| Fast delivery data at UHSLC | Data 290 File format |
| High frequency data at BODC | Data 305p1 Data 305ap2 Data 305bp2 Document 62229 Document 78831 Document 78845 |
| High frequency data at UHSLC | Data 290a Data 290b Document 290a Document 290b File format |
| Data held at national organisation | Yes |
| Real-time data available | Yes |
| Additional parameters (real-time) | None |
| Benchmarks | |
| Tide gauge benchmark | Existing benchmark is top of pile near floating landing stage. New benchmark required. |
| Auxiliary benchmarks | Benchmark at Stanley, but tide gauge not levelled into it. |
| Data at PSMSL | |
| Annual MSL (RLR) data | RLR 1796 RLR 1082 |
| Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
| MSL method | Doodson X0 filter |
| PSMSL code | 1796 |
| Other relevant codes | UHSLC 290 |
| Additional information | |
| Other relevant information | More Harbour - 6 months deployment in 1984. Port Louis Harbour, Port Louis Tablet - 1984, minimal data obtained. PSMSL also hold data from another gauge at Stanley (PSMSL Code 863/001 1964-1969, 1974). |
| Nearest Met. station | Mount Pleasant, Falklands |
| Last updated | 5 December 1993 |
Location map
Stanley, Falklands/Malvinas, U.K.
Real time data plot
Stanley, Falklands/Malvinas, U.K.
Real time data plot
Stanley, Falklands/Malvinas, U.K.
