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Station summaryTXGV

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GPS

Tide Gauge

DORIS

IGS-type acronym :	TXGV00USA
Latitude :	29.28515600
Longitude :	-94.78924600
Installed date :	2007-02-20
Decommissioned date :	2011-07-20
Country :	U.S.A.
City:	GALVESTON
Station status :	Decommissioned (white and red cross)
Distance to Tide Gauge (m) :	1
Domes Nr.:	49372M001
Station operator:	Unknown
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GPS position times seriesTXGV

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M	Material change or malfunction
E	Earthquake
RF	Reference Frame change
U	Unknown
NA	Not available
	Position discontinuity
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North Component

Data available at SONELTXGV

Quality plots on RINEX filesTXGV

		Plots generated using software developed with the EPN team at ROB
Observations & tracking performance	Satellite tracking

Observations & tracking performance
Satellite tracking

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Comparison with satellite altimetry data

Link to Sea Level Differences (Satellite altimetry minus tide gauge data).

Co-located instrumentsTXGV

GPS : Galveston 1 (GAL1)
Tide gauge : GALVESTON Pier 21 (G21TG)
Tide gauge : GALVESTON Pleasure Pier (GPPTG)
GPS : Galveston A (TXGA)
GPS : Galveston Pier 21 (N301)
GPS : TXNJ North Jetty (TXNJ)

Leveling & DatumsTXGV

Access to leveling data (Benchmarks, Datums...)

Photo albumTXGV

BibliographyTXGV

If you have a relevant reference to suggest, please send-us an e-mail : sonel@sonel.org

Blum, Rahn et al., 2023. Land loss in the Mississippi River Delta: Role of subsidence, global sea-level rise, and coupled atmospheric and oceanographic processes. Global and Planetary Change.

Liu, Li et al., 2019. Groundwater Level Change Management on Control of Land Subsidence Supported by Borehole Extensometer Compaction Measurements in the Houston-Galveston Region, Texas. Geosciences.

Liu, Li et al., 2020. Land subsidence contributions to relative sea level rise at tide gauge Galveston Pier 21, Texas. Scientific Reports.

Qu, Lu et al., 2015. Mapping ground deformation over Houston–Galveston, Texas using multi-temporal InSAR. Remote Sensing of Environment.

History of the stationTXGV

TXGV on same pier as TG but this was decommissioned 2011-201 same time as the tide-gauge.

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