GLOSS Station Handbook – Mombasa
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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 | |
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Gloss number | 8 |
Station name | Mombasa |
Country | Kenya |
Time zone | 045E, GMT + 3hrs |
Latitude (+ve N) | -4.05 |
Longitude (+ve E) | 39.66666 |
Ocean | Indian |
Observation periods | float 1986-unknown, pressure and radar installed 2006 |
Responsible country | Kenya |
Authority responsible for tide gauge | Dr. M. Merrifield, University of Hawaii, Dept. of Oceanography, Hawaii 96822, U.S.A. and: Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Inst. |
GLOSS contact | Kenya |
Committed to GLOSS | Yes |
Operational | Yes |
Instrumentation | |
Float | Yes |
Pressure | Yes |
Bubbler | No |
Acoustic | No |
Radar | Yes |
Data | |
Digital data | Yes |
Data acquisition rate | Hourly intervals |
Fast delivery data at UHSLC | Data 101 File format |
High frequency data at BODC | Data 008 Document 57529 |
High frequency data at UHSLC | Data 101a Document 101a File format |
Real-time data available | No |
Additional parameters (real-time) | None |
Benchmarks | |
Tide gauge benchmark | BM@ is a bolt fixed on the tide staff at 3.8m above tide staff zero. |
Benchmark relationships | Tide gauge zero (TGZ) = Admiralty Chart Datum - 0.942m TGZ = East African Railways Datum - 0.912m TGZ = Survey of Kenya Datum - 2.790m (from 1989) TGZ = 3.800m below BM@ |
Auxiliary benchmarks | BM1 (TGZ is 5.683m below BM1 - June 1989) BM2 (TGZ is 5.850m below BM2 - June 1989) BM3 (TGZ is 13.883m below BM3 - April 1987) BM N-3 (TGZ is 6.226m below TGZ - June 1989) |
Data at PSMSL | |
Annual MSL (RLR) data | RLR 370 |
Annual MSL (RLR) plot | |
MSL method | average of hourly heights |
PSMSL code | 370 |
Other relevant codes | UHSLC 101 |
Additional information | |
Other relevant information | Munro gauge was located at different place in the same port until 1976. Valeport pneumatic gauge situated 350km to the north of Lamu since December 1988. |
Nearest Met. station | Mombasa International Airport |
Last updated | 5 December 1993 |