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  Identification_Information:
    Citation:
      Citation_Information:
        Originator: Mr. Patrick Caldwell
        Publication_Date: Unpublished material
        Title: Sea level measured by tide gauges from global oceans-- the Joint Archive for Sea Level holdings as of April 2005
        Online_Linkage: http://ilikai.soest.hawaii.edu/uhslc/ 
    Description:
      Abstract: The Joint Archive for Sea Level (JASL), a collaboration between 
the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center (UHSLC) and the 
World Data Center-A for Oceanography, the National Oceanographic
Data Center (NODC), and the National Coastal Data Development Center 
(NCDDC), continues to acquire, quality control, manage, and distribute 
sea level data as initiated by the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere 
(TOGA) Program, which ended in 1994.  The TOGA ocean monitoring 
networks were primarily in the tropics.  Since the end of TOGA, the 
JASL has slowly begun to absorb sea level sites in oceanographically
strategic locations beyond the tropics.  The JASL is now
an official Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS)
data center.  The JASL Research Quality Data Set (RQDS) is 
the largest global collection of quality-controlled hourly sea level.  
Efforts are underway to acquire new sites and uncover 
historic records as available.

    The JASL receives hourly data from regional and national 
sea level networks.  The data are inspected and obvious
errors such as data spikes and time shifts are corrected.  
Gaps less than 25 hours are interpolated. Reference level 
problems are referred back to the originator.  If the
originators can not resolve the reference level shift,
comparisons with neighboring sites or examination of the
hourly residuals may warrant an adjustment.  Descriptive 
station information and quality assessments are prepared.  
The objective is to assemble a scientifically valid, 
well-documented archive of hourly, daily, and monthly 
sea level values in standardized formats.  These 
data are annually submitted to the World Data Center-A for 
Oceanography (WDCA) and the monthly values are provided to 
the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level.  

This set contains the complete holdings of the 
JASL for series that have been quality controlled, assessed, 
and documented.  As of April 14, 2005 the holdings 
consisted of 535 series with 10,461 station-years of quality-
assured data. The series are of variable lengths with the 
greatest concentration between 5 and 30 years, although a few 
sites have over 70 years.
      Purpose: Provide an archive of sea level data for global oceans.
      Supplemental_Information: NOAASupplemental:
Entry_ID: Unknown
Sensor_Name: tide gauge 
Project_Campaign: Joint Archive for Sea Level
Storage_Medium: ASCII
Online_size: 185.5 Mbytes
    Time_Period_of_Content:
      Time_Period_Information:
        Range_of_Dates/Times:
          Beginning_Date: 1877
          Ending_Date: 2004
      Currentness_Reference: ground condition
    Status:
      Progress: Complete
      Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Annually
    Spatial_Domain:
      Bounding_Coordinates:
        West_Bounding_Coordinate: -180.0
        East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.0
        North_Bounding_Coordinate: 75.5
        South_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.0
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        Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
        Theme_Keyword: sea level data
        Theme_Keyword: tide gauge data
        Theme_Keyword: coastal data
        Theme_Keyword: hourly sea level data
        Theme_Keyword: daily sea level data
        Theme_Keyword: monthly sea level data
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        Place_Keyword:  Port Canaveral,FL USA               
        Place_Keyword:  Galveston,Pier21  USA               
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        Place_Keyword:  Puerto Cortes     Honduras          
        Place_Keyword:  Belize            British Honduras  
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      Stratum:
        Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
        Stratum_Keyword: sea surface
    Access_Constraints: None
    Use_Constraints: data set credit required
    Point_of_Contact:
      Contact_Information:
        Contact_Person_Primary:
          Contact_Person: Mr. Patrick Caldwell
          Contact_Organization: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC Hawaii Liaison Office
        Contact_Address:
          Address_Type: mailing and physical
          Address: 1000 Pope Rd. MSB 316
          City: Honolulu
          State_or_Province: HI
          Postal_Code: 96822
          Country: USA
        Contact_Voice_Telephone: 808-956-4105
        Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 808-956-4105
        Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: patrick.caldwell@noaa.gov
        Hours_of_Service: 7 AM to 4 PM
        Contact_Instructions: email best option
    Data_Set_Credit: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC Hawaii Liaison Office
Joint Archive for Sea Level
(NOAA/Univ. of Hawaii)
    Native_Data_Set_Environment: ASCII
  Data_Quality_Information:
    Logical_Consistency_Report: complete
    Completeness_Report: This data set contains hourly, daily, and monthly sea level values of the complete holdings of the Joint Archive for Sea Level as of April 2005.
    Lineage:
      Process_Step:
        Process_Description: The hourly data have been calibrated and quality controlled as described in [1], [2], and [4] referenced below.

Daily values are obtained using a two-step filtering operation.  First, the dominant diurnal and semi-diurnal tidal components are removed from the quality controlled hourly values. Secondly, a 119-point convolution filter (Bloomfield, 1976) centered on noon is applied to remove the remaining high frequency energy and to prevent aliasing when the data are computed to daily values.  The 95, 50, and 5% amplitude points
are 124.0, 60.2, and 40.2 hours, respectively.  The Nyquist frequency of the daily data is at a period of 48 hours which has a response of about 5% amplitude, thus, aliasing is minimal.  The
primary tidal periods have a response of less than 0.1% amplitude.

     The filtering operation incorporates an objective procedure to handle gaps.  This objective technique simply replaces the filter weight at any missing observation  with a zero and
renormalizes the sum of the modified weight function to unity.
This technique is equivalent to interpolating the missing observation with an estimate of the local mean of the time series.  The local mean is defined as the mean of a given segment of length equal to the length of the filter.  The error associated with this technique can be estimated  objectively and is used as a criterion for accepting or rejecting a daily value computed in an area of the time series which contains a gap or
gaps.  This error depends on the ratio of the standard deviations of the input (hourly) and the output (daily) data.  Thus in order to keep the ratio low, it is essential to apply this technique to the residual series as defined above.

     The monthly values are calculated from the daily data with a simple average of all the daily values in a month. If seven or fewer values are missing, the monthly value is calculated. 

[1]
Caldwell, P., and B. Kilonsky, 1992. Data processing and quality control at the TOGA Sea Level Center. Joint IAPSO-IOC Workshop on Sea Level Measurements and Quality Control, Paris, 12-13 October, 1992. IOC Workshop Report No. 81, UNESCO. pp. 122-135. 

[2]
Caldwell, P. 1998. Sea Level Data Processing on IBM-PC Compatible Computers, Version 3.0 (Year 2000 Compliant). JIMAR Contribution No. 319, SOEST, University of Hawaii, 72 pp. 

[3]
Cohen, R., 1997. NODC focuses on the coastal ocean. Earth System Monitor, Vol. 8, No. 2, December 1997. pp 10-11. 

[4]
Kilonsky, B. J. and P. Caldwell, 1991. In pursuit of high- quality sea level data. IEEE Oceans Proceedings. Vol. 2, October 1-3, 1991
        Process_Date: Unknown
        Process_Contact:
          Contact_Information:
            Contact_Person_Primary:
              Contact_Person: Mr. Patrick C. Caldwell
              Contact_Organization: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC
            Contact_Position: Hawaii/US Pacific Liaison, Joint Archive for Shipboard ADCP manager
            Contact_Address:
              Address_Type: mailing
              Address: 1000 Pope Road, MSB 316
              Address: Dept. of Oceanography
              Address: University of Hawaii at Manoa
              City: Honolulu
              State_or_Province: Hawaii
              Postal_Code: 96822
              Country: USA
            Contact_Voice_Telephone: (808)-956-4105
            Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (808) 956-2352
            Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: caldwell@hawaii.edu
            Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: patrick.caldwell@noaa.gov
            Hours_of_Service: 8 AM to 5 PM weekdays
            Contact_Instructions: check services@nodc.noaa.gov if not available
  Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
    Overview_Description:
      Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: Organization and File Names
===========================
The series have been organized into subdirectories by ocean.
Within each "ocean" subdirectory, the daily and monthly values
are placed in separate directories, along with a directory for
documentation of each series.

All ASCII files have DOS end-of-line characters (CR-LF).
 
DIRECTORY TREE

Below, all names beginning with a backslash "/" are directories.
 
    /                           "primary directory"
      .
      .
      README.txt               "file describing organization of the
      .                         account and convention for file names.
      .
      PROCESS.05               "stations worked on in 2004-5 (new, updated,
                                deleted, or replaced)"
      .
      .
      REPLACE.05               "stations with site-years previously
                                existing in the RQDS that have recently
                                been replaced with corrections or 
                                adjustments"
      .
      .
      inventry.lst             "list of site_id, lat, lon, ocean,
      .                         and time-span"
      .
      .
      hourly.fmt               "format description hourly"
      daily.fmt                "format description daily"
      monthly.fmt              "format description monthly"
      hour2daily.txt           "describes filter hourly->daily"
      policy.dmt               "comments on processing and the
                                station documentation file"
      .
      .
      /misc
          contributors.txt     "list of contributors"
          2003.txt             "series with 2003 data"
          2004.txt             "series with 2004 data"
          backward.txt         "series extended backwards"
          new.txt              "new series"
          updated.txt          "updated series"
                               *the last three are relative to Nov2003
      .
      .
      /pacific                 "subdirectory for sites in Pacific"
        .
        .
         pacific.lst           "inventory of Pacific Ocean sites"
        .
        .
        /daily                 "subdirectory for daily  values"
        /monthly               "subdirectory for monthly values"
        /hourly                "subdirectory for hourly values"
        /doc                   "information on station specifications,"
        .                      "data record span, and quality"
        .
        
      /indian                  "subdirectory for sites in Indian Ocean"
         indian.lst            "inventory of Indian Ocean sites"
        . 
        .                      "similar subdirectories as Pacific"
        .
      /atlantic                "subdirectory for sites in Atlantic    "
         atlantic.lst          "inventory of Atlantic Ocean sites"
        .
        .                      "similar subdirectories as Pacific"

DATA FORMAT:

    The JASL archiving formats are used and are explained in
files "hourly.fmt", "daily.fmt" and "monthly.fmt" within the 
"rqds" subdirectory.  The data files consist of fixed-length, 
80-byte ASCII records.  Separate files contain general 
information regarding the installation and the final assessment 
of data quality for each series.


DATA FILE NAMING CONVENTION:

  data and documentation files :

     name                         contents
  ----------------     -----------------------------------------
 *hsssv.zip            hourly   data for site_id sss, series v
  dsssv.dat            daily    data for site_id sss, series v
  msssv.dat            monthly  data for site_id sss, series v
  qasssv.dmt           documentation for site_id sss, series v

*The hourly file is zipped.  See notes above regarding unzipping.
The unzipped file creates hourly data files grouped by year
with file naming convention, hsssvyy.dat, where yy is the year.

     The site_id is the Joint Archive for Sea Level (JASL)
convention, which can be seen in the inventory list (file
inventry.lst) that also includes country, latitude, longitude, 
ocean, time-span, and completeness index.  

     Some sites have more than one independent time segment, 
denoted by series v (a,b,c,etc.). The segments are independent 
because they are not linked to the same reference level.
  Distribution_Information:
    Distributor:
      Contact_Information:
        Contact_Organization_Primary:
          Contact_Organization: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC (National Coastal Data Development Center)
        Contact_Address:
          Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address
          Address: National Coastal Data Development Center, Building 1100
          City: Stennis Space Center
          State_or_Province: MS
          Postal_Code: 39529
        Contact_Voice_Telephone: 866-732-2382
        Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 228-688-2968
        Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: ncddcgetdata@noaa.gov
        Hours_of_Service: 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday
    Distribution_Liability: NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data,expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.  NOAA, NESDIS, NODC and NCDDC cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function on a particular system.
  Metadata_Reference_Information:
    Metadata_Date: 20050415
    Metadata_Contact:
      Contact_Information:
        Contact_Person_Primary:
          Contact_Person: Mr. Patrick C. Caldwell
          Contact_Organization: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC/NCDDC
        Contact_Position: Hawaii/US Pacific Liaison
        Contact_Address:
          Address_Type: mailing
          Address: 1000 Pope Road, MSB 316
          Address: Dept. of Oceanography
          Address: University of Hawaii at Manoa
          City: Honolulu
          State_or_Province: Hawaii
          Postal_Code: 96822
          Country: USA
        Contact_Voice_Telephone: (808)-956-4105
        Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (808) 956-2352
        Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: caldwell@hawaii.edu
        Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: patrick.caldwell@noaa.gov
        Hours_of_Service: 8 AM to 5 PM weekdays
        Contact_Instructions: check services@nodc.noaa.gov if not available
    Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC CSDGM
    Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

