ALEXANDRIA
Contributing agency
Station summaryALX2
| IGS-type acronym : | ALX2 |
| Latitude : | 31.19706600 |
| Longitude : | 29.91099100 |
| Installed date : | 2008-03-03 |
| Decommissioned date : | |
| Country : | EGYPT |
| City: | ALEXANDRIA |
| Station status : | active (green) |
| Distance to Tide Gauge (m) : | 3132 |
| Domes Nr.: | 30102M001 |
| Station operator: | Unknown |
| IGS-like station form : |
GPS position times seriesALX2
Position
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Offsets (mm)
| M | Material change or malfunction |
| E | Earthquake |
| RF | Reference Frame change |
| U | Unknown |
| NA | Not available |
| Position discontinuity | |
| Velocity discontinuity |
Data available at SONELALX2
Quality plots on RINEX filesALX2
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Plots generated using software developed with the EPN team at ROB |
| Observations & tracking performance | Satellite tracking |
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Co-located instrumentsALX2
- GPS : Alexandria (ALEX)
- Tide gauge : Alexandria Port (ALEXA)
- Tide gauge : Alexandria Navy (ALEXN)
Leveling & DatumsALX2
Photo albumALX2
BibliographyALX2
If you have a relevant reference to suggest, please send-us an e-mail : sonel@sonel.org-
Abdelaal, Bao et al., 2024. Assessing Coastal Heritage Sustainability: Crustal Deformation and Sea-Level Trends At the Qaitbay Citadel in Alexandria, Egypt. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing.
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Dawod, Ebaid et al., 2021. An Integrated Geomatics Approach for Projecting Sea Level Variations and Risks A Case Study in the Nile Delta, Egypt. Journal of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
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Frihy, 2003. The Nile Delta-Alexandria coast: vulnerability to sea-level rise, consequences and adaptation. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change.
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Gebremichael, Sultan et al., 2018. Assessing Land Deformation and Sea Encroachment in the Nile Delta: A Radar Interferometric and Inundation Modeling Approach. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
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Woodworth, Aman et al., 2007. Sea level monitoring in Africa. African Journal of Marine Science.
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Woppelmann, Le Cozannet et al., 2013. Is land subsidence increasing the exposture to sea level rise in Alexandria, Egypt?. Geophysical Research Letters.
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Woppelmann, Marcos, 2012. Coastal sea level rise in southern Europe and the nonclimate contribution of vertical land motion. Journal of Geophysical Research.
