FUERTEVENTURA

Station Information

Station ID: 2048
Latitude: 28.49251
Longitude: -13.85822
Coastline code: 370
Station code: 6
Country: SPAIN
Time span of data: 2004 – 2022
Completeness (%): 96
Link to ellipsoid: Available
Date of last update: 11 Jul 2023

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: FUER, OLIV
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: fue2

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2011-01-24

This is a newly entered station. Although data has previously been supplied
latitude and longitude were unknown. Station made RLR. RLR year is 2004 factor
5.488m.
Benchmark is SSMARE 3.812m relative to REDMAR datum and 2.807m relative to IGN.

Documentation added 2013-04-09

The Aanderaa pressure gauge at Fuerteventura has been moved to a different position in the harbour and replaced by a new MIROS radar gauge. Both old and new gauges were running in parallel for the period 1.12.2009- 07.02.2011.for inter-comparison purposes. A bias (mean difference) of 4.25cm was found between the two gauges. See paper B. Perez et al 'Overlapping sea level time series measured using different technologies: an example from the REDMAR Spanish network'

Documentation added 2014-01-13

Further investigation revealed that the bias was due to a problem with the old pressure gauge. Data from this has been revised. Complete dataset was re-entered onto the database.

Documentation added 2014-04-29

At the request of Puertos del Estado the latitude and longitude have been revised from 28.500000 -13.851667 derived from the previously supplied degrees and minutes value to 28.49251 -13.85822 which is the site of the new MIROS gauge in decimal degrees.

Data Authority

Puertos del Estado
Área de Conocimiento y Análisis del Medio Físico
Avda. Del Partenón, 10
28042, Madrid

Documentation added 2001-03-06

The Area de Conocimiento y Analisis del Medio Fisico was
formerly known as the Departamento de Clima Maritimo.