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DATA DESCRIPTION

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Different types of tide gauge data are available in this server :

 - Raw hourly values, latency 1 week, no quality control

 - Quality controlled hourly values, latency 2 months

 - Mean sea level values (daily, monthly, annual)
Tide gauge data is organized as follows :
  HAUT_10---|—RECENT-|—fAJACC_raw.slv   Ajaccio raw 10 min. sampling

            |         |                   data since last quality control

            |         |—fMARSE_raw.slv   Same for Marseille...

            |         |—...

            |

            |—TOTAL—|—fAJACC.slv       Complete 10 min. data file for Ajaccio

            |         |                   (No rigorous quality control performed)

            |         |—fMARSE.slv

            |         |—...

            |

  HAUT_HOR—|—VALID—|—hAJACC2001.slv   Ajaccio Quality controlled

            |         |                   hourly data for year 2001 

            |         |—hAJACC2002.slv               ... year 2002

            |         |—hMARSE2001.slv

            |         |—hMARSE2002.slv

            |         |—...

            |

            |—TOTAL—|—hAJACC.slv       Complete quality controlled

            |         |                   hourly data file for Ajaccio

            |         |—hMARSE.slv

            |         |—...

            |

  NIVX_MOY—|—AJACC2005.nm     Mean sea level values (daily,monthly,annual)

            |—AJACC2006.nm     for station AJACC for year 2005, 2006

            |—...              (in SHOM format)

            |

            |

  docFM-----|—FM_AJACC20060313.pdf       SHOM documentation file, the

            |—FM_BREST20060313.pdf       file name indicates the update.

            |—...
  Directory  RECENT/ contains raw data that is pending for quality control,

                     the directory is updated every 15 days.

  Directory  VALID/  contains quality controlled data for previouss years,

                     updated every 2 months.

  Directory  TOTAL/  contains all of the quality controlled data available,

                     updated every 2 months.
DATA FORMATS

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  UNITS :

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   Hourly and 10 min. sea level height values are provided in TU+0

   Heights are expressed in centimeters for hourly values (IHO standard),

                         in meters for 10 min. values or mean sea levels
  FILE NAMINGS :

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   sCCCCC[YYYY][WW].eee      Note : [] means optional
   s : prefix ’f’ for 10 min. values

              ’h’ for hourly values

              ’d’ for daily values

              ’m’ for monthly values

              ’y’ for yearly values

   CCCCC : SONEL station/site identification code,

           see file site_codes.txt

   YYYY :  year of data

   WW :    week of data

   eee :   extension ’slv’ for sea level values.

                     ’bar’ for pressure values
  FILE CONTENTS :

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   Hourly sea level data files are provided in SHOM/IHO format.

   The format is as follows :
   Each line contains 27 values

    - 3 fields of 4 integer characters :

      - the year 

      - an internal SHOM harbor code

      - the day of year
    - 24 fields of 4 integer characters :

      - sea level heights, from 0h to 23h TU+0, in centimeters

        Note : 9999 means no data or bad value (as it is the

        case for the valeur 99.999 in the 10 min. data).