BALTRA-B

Station Information

Station ID: 1645
Latitude: -0.433333
Longitude: -90.283333
GLOSS ID: 169
Coastline code: 845
Station code: 34
Country: ECUADOR
Time span of data: 1985 – 2018
Completeness (%): 89
Link to ellipsoid: Available
Date of last update: 29 Jan 2020

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 Real Time Stations from VLIZ: balt
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 3: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 3: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1993-07-12

Baltra-B 845/034 RLR(1987) is 9.3m below BM UH-2

Documentation added 1997-11-12

1985-90 primary gauge = Leupold and Stevens Analog-to-Digital Recorder (ADR)1991- primary gauge = Handar Encoder (ENC)

Documentation added 2010-11-17

Complete dataset April 1985 - June 2010 received from UHSLC. After checking these with existing data values these has been loaded onto the database. RLR remains 5.111m

Documentation added 2013-10-14

Full dataset March 1985-April 2012 downloaded from Hawaii. Dataset replaced.

Documentation added 2015-09-22

The information for the RLR diagram was drawn with information from the first levelling exercise in 1985. Since then benchmark UH2 has moved slightly in subsequent levelling exercises. The last levelling was carried out in 2014 since 2004 the stable benchmark is benchmark 1 4.1686m relative to the datum.

Documentation added 2015-10-21

Using the latest JASL data the complete dataset 1985-2014 has been loaded.

Data Authority

University of Hawaii
Department of Oceanography Division of Natural Sciences
1000 Pope Road
Honolulu
Hawaii 96822