RAS TANURA (NORTH PIER)

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.

Station Documentation

Documentation added 1994-05-05

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.