Data and Station Information for WILMINGTON

Station Information

Station ID:	396
Latitude:	34.226667
Longitude:	-77.953333
Coastline code:	960
Station code:	60
Country:	UNITED STATES
Time span of data:	1935 – 2023
Completeness (%):	98
Date of last update:	26 Jan 2024

Green Arrow:	Current Station
Yellow Marker:	Neighbouring RLR Station
Red Marker:	Neighbouring Metric Station

Please note: In many cases, the station position in our database is accurate to only one minute. Thus, the tide gauge may not appear to be on the coast.

Tide Gauge Data

Plot of monthly mean sea level data at WILMINGTON.

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Plot of annual mean sea level data at WILMINGTON.

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Download metric sea level data. Use only with extreme caution. NOTE: If some of the data are red in the plots above, the 'flag for attention' is set. Please see the documentation below.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 750: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Wilmington 960/060 RLR(1964) is 8.4m below BM1(1935)

Documentation added 2011-08-11

Using data from NOAA RLR diagram has been re-drawn. Primary benchmark appears to be 8120 D 1976 2.454 above gauge datum.During Epoch 1960-1978 this value was 2.453. Previous PSMSL benchmark BM1 2.755m above datum relates to NO 1 1935 of NOAA data. Value for this in Epoch 1960-1978 is 2.752m. In Epoch 1983-2001 value is 2.749m

Data Authority

N.O.A.A. / N.O.S.
N/oes33, Ssmc4, Room 6531
1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring,
MD 20910

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

WILMINGTON