GALVESTON

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Tide Gauge

DORIS

IGS-type acronym :	TXGA00USA
Latitude :	29.32786700
Longitude :	-94.77263600
Installed date :	2005-01-01
Decommissioned date :
Country :	U.S.A.
City:	GALVESTON
Station status :	active (green)
Distance to Tide Gauge (m) :	2856
Domes Nr.:	49872M001
Station operator:	(TxDOT) - Texas Department of Transportation
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GPS position times seriesTXGA

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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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Data available at SONELTXGA

Quality plots on RINEX filesTXGA

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Observations & tracking performance	Satellite tracking

Observations & tracking performance
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Comparison with satellite altimetry data

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

Co-located instrumentsTXGA

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

Leveling & DatumsTXGA

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

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BibliographyTXGA

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.

Kolker, Allison et al., 2011. An evaluation of subsidence rates and sea‐level variability in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters.

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 stationTXGA

Remplace TXGV et GAL1

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