PORT CHALMERS

Station Information

Station ID: 1643
Latitude: -45.8147
Longitude: 170.62414
Coastline code: 690
Station code: 28
Country: NEW ZEALAND
Time span of data: 1985 – 2023
Completeness (%): 69
Date of last update: 10 Jul 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.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: DUNT, DUND, OUS2
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: otat
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 669: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2003-01-17

New data from John Hannah added 17/01/03 which supercedes old data.
New data does not have any missing days information.
Old data has been backed up.

Documentation added 2003-01-17

New data from John Hannah was for Auckland II, Dunedin II,
Lyttelton II and Wellington II.

Documentation added 2005-10-17

There is a new John Hannah paper referring to New Zealand data for
Wellington, Dunedin, Lyttelton and Auckland. The reference is:
"An updated analysis of long-term sea level change in New Zealand."
Geophysical Research Letters, V31, L03307, doi:10.1029/2003GL019166
(2004).

Documentation added 2008-10-01

Dataset for Port Chalmers 1985-2007
received from Glen Rowe at LINZ.
This is a new station to PSMSL.

Documentation added 2009-10-07

New Zealand station Port Chalmers is now an RLR
station. RLR value=5.885

Documentation added 2021-08-23

A revised copy of the New Zealand data values for station Port Chalmers has been received from the data supplier the Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). The revised dataset begins in 2014. This exercise has been carried out to correct some anomalies with the high frequency data.

Data Authority

Land Information New Zealand
155 The Terrace
PO 5501
Wellington 6145