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Extracted from Database
21 Jul 2025
WARNING: METRIC STATION
THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA.
USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
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.
Tide Gauge Data
Station Documentation
Documentation added 1994-05-05
UP TO 1985 LEUPOLD & STEVENS GAUGE, 1985-1993 (OCTOBER) OTT GAUGE, 1993 (OCTOBER) - SONAR RESEARCH GAUGEDocumentation added 1994-05-05
REVISION OF MAY 1994 UPDATES DATA FROM AUTHORITY INPE/OBT Oceanografia, Academic Science Department, King Fahd Naval Academy, JubailDocumentation 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 CompanyIndustrial 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 suspectend 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.
