GALVESTON
Contributing agency
Station summaryGAL1
| IGS-type acronym : | GAL100USA |
| Latitude : | 29.32988068 |
| Longitude : | -94.73680897 |
| Installed date : | 1995-09-29 |
| Decommissioned date : | 2003-07-10 |
| Country : | U.S.A. |
| City: | GALVESTON |
| Station status : | Decommissioned (white and red cross) |
| Distance to Tide Gauge (m) : | 5938 |
| Domes Nr.: | 49872S001 |
| Station operator: | Unknown |
| IGS-like station form : |
GPS position times seriesGAL1
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 | |
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Data available at SONELGAL1
Quality plots on RINEX filesGAL1
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| 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 instrumentsGAL1
- GPS : Galveston (TXGV)
- 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 & DatumsGAL1
BibliographyGAL1
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.
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C.-Letetrel, M.-Karpytchev et al., 2015. Estimation of vertical land movement rates along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico over the past decades. Continental Shelf Research.
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Kolker, Allison et al., 2011. An evaluation of subsidence rates and sea‐level variability in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters.
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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.
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Liu, Li et al., 2020. Land subsidence contributions to relative sea level rise at tide gauge Galveston Pier 21, Texas. Scientific Reports.
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Qu, Lu et al., 2015. Mapping ground deformation over Houston–Galveston, Texas using multi-temporal InSAR. Remote Sensing of Environment.
