WARNING: METRIC STATION THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA. USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
Station Information
Station ID:
1508
Latitude:
26.65
Longitude:
50.166667
Coastline code:
482
Station code:
26
Country:
SAUDI ARABIA
Time span of data:
1980 – 2000
Completeness (%):
98
Date of last update:
07 Mar 2002
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.
UP TO 1985 LEUPOLD & STEVENS GAUGE, 1985-1993 (OCTOBER) OTT GAUGE, 1993 (OCTOBER) - SONAR RESEARCH GAUGE
Documentation added 1994-05-05
REVISION OF MAY 1994 UPDATES DATA FROM AUTHORITY INPE/OBT Oceanografia, Academic Science Department, King Fahd Naval Academy, Jubail
Documentation added 2002-03-13
Ras Tanura original data 1994-5 replaced by new data supplied by ARAMCO.
Documentation added 2015-12-03
This station was previously flagged. However, as the data is 'Metric' anyway the Station flag has been removed.
Data Authority
Saudi Arabian Oil Company Industrial and Environmental Affairs Box 5000/r-2321 Adm. Bldg Dhahran
Documentation added 2002-07-11
Data supplied for ARAMCO gauges 482/031,036,042,045,047,048 suspect end of 1994-1995 and data removed from database. Private comparison of data with those at Bushehr and Bandar Abbas, Iran show only expected tidal data. See email reference 12th June 2002.