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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...
| |--...
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|--TOTAL--|--fAJACC.slv Complete 10 min. data file for Ajaccio
| | (No rigorous quality control performed)
| |--fMARSE.slv
| |--...
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HAUT_HOR--|--VALID--|--hAJACC2001.slv Ajaccio Quality controlled
| | hourly data for year 2001
| |--hAJACC2002.slv ... year 2002
| |--hMARSE2001.slv
| |--hMARSE2002.slv
| |--...
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|--TOTAL--|--hAJACC.slv Complete quality controlled
| | hourly data file for Ajaccio
| |--hMARSE.slv
| |--...
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NIVX_MOY--|--AJACC2005.nm Mean sea level values (daily,monthly,annual)
|--AJACC2006.nm for station AJACC for year 2005, 2006
|--... (in SHOM format)
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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).