TE PAPA
Contributing agency
Station summaryWGTN
| IGS-type acronym : | WGTN |
| Latitude : | -41.32345278 |
| Longitude : | 174.80589170 |
| Installed date : | 1996-05-23 |
| Decommissioned date : | |
| Country : | NEW ZEALAND |
| City: | WELLINGTON |
| Station status : | active (green) |
| Distance to Tide Gauge (m) : | 4823 |
| Domes Nr.: | 50208M003 |
| Station operator: |
HANSEN Dionne
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| IGS-like station form : |
GPS position times seriesWGTN
(Reference epoch: )
| M | Material change or malfunction |
| E | Earthquake |
| RF | Reference Frame change |
| U | Unknown |
| NA | Not available |
| Position discontinuity | |
| Velocity discontinuity |
Data available at SONELWGTN
Quality plots on RINEX filesWGTN
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Plots generated using software developed with the EPN team at ROB |
| Observations & tracking performance | Satellite tracking |
(this operation may take 20 to 45s)
The satellite tracking graph has been calculated for all stations for the first day of each month. If you wish to have a graph for another date, choose the 'Calculate a specific date' option.
Comparison with satellite altimetry data
- Link to Sea Level Differences (Satellite altimetry minus tide gauge data).
Co-located instrumentsWGTN
- GPS : TE PAPA (WGTT)
- Tide gauge : WELLINGTON HARBOUR (WGTTG)
- Tide gauge : WELLINGTON II (WELL2)
- GPS : Wellington (WEL1)
- GPS : WELLINGTON 2 (WEL2)
Leveling & DatumsWGTN
Photo albumWGTN
BibliographyWGTN
If you have a relevant reference to suggest, please send-us an e-mail : sonel@sonel.org-
Denys, Beavan et al., 2020. Sea Level Rise in New Zealand: The Effect of Vertical Land Motion on Century‐Long Tide Gauge Records in a Tectonically Active Region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
Log bookWGTN
[IGSSTATION-7928] - 2020-04-08 (14/04/2020)
the firmware of WGTN (Wellington, New Zealand) Trimble Alloy receiver has been upgraded to release 5.43 on 2020-04-07 23:29 UTC.
An updated site log has been submitted to IGS CB.
[IGSSTATION-7885] - 2020-02-19 (18/03/2020)
on 2020-02-14T01:16Z the receiver and antenna at WGTN (Wellington, New Zealand) have been upgraded to the following models.
Antenna Type : TRM115000.00 NONE
Serial Number : 1551016811
Receiver Type : TRIMBLE ALLOY
Serial Number : 5921R40132
An updated sitelog has been submitted to IGS.
[IGSSTATION-7390] - 2018-08-03 (03/08/2018)
the Trimble NetR9 receiver at WGTN (Wellington, New Zealand) has been replaced today due to faulty internal batteries.
Due to this fault, data from 212/2018 (06 UTC) to 214/2018 (22 UTC) have been permanently lost.
Data logging and real time streaming are now restored.
[IGSSTATION-7354] - 2018-07-05 (12/07/2018)
We have recently found that the WGTN sitelog was missing one entry for WGTN (Wellington, New Zealand).
In detail, the ASHTECH Z-XII3, sn LP00155 receiver, had the firmware version “1E95” installed from 1996-08-19T22:13:01Z to 1999-06-13T16:42:58Z.
This has now been fixed, and a new version of the sitelog has been submitted and approved through the IGS Site Log Manager.
Rinex headers were already correct, so there is no need to resubmit these data.
[IGSSTATION-6067] - 2015-01-12 (12/01/2015)
Thanks to my GNS Science colleague Neville Palmer, we realized that we had a wrong record for the antenna installed at the IGS site WGTN (Wellington, New Zealand) in our database.
The time period affected runs from 1996-05-23 to 2005-03-21.
Unfortunately, this error was reflected in the IGS logfile , and in the header of all Rinex files uploaded to CDDIS and IGN during the above time period.
The antenna was wrongly recorded as ASH700936C_M .
The correct code to be considered is instead: ASH700936B_M
An updated version of the site log (4.1 and 4.2 fields) has been submitted and approved by IGS Central Bureau.
