BOMBAY (PRINCES DOCK)

Station Information

Station ID: 212
Latitude: 18.95
Longitude: 72.833333
Coastline code: 500
Station code: 51
Country: INDIA
Time span of data: 1916 – 1920
Completeness (%): 100
Date of last update: 01 Jan 1980

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

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Bombay (Prince's) 500/051 RLR(1920) is 13.0m below BM 2(PP)(1)
This is an historic station last data 1920

Documentation added 1994-08-04

For a discussion of interannual variability of sea level along the coasts of Pakistan and India, see Clarke and Liu, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 24, 1224, 1994.

Documentation added 2002-12-06

SMRC Newsletter Jul-Dec 2001 reports high E coast correlation with SOI and MSL. MSL is much higher during La Nina tropical cyclones than during El Nino.

Data Authority

Survey of India
Geodetic and Research Branch
17 E.C. Road
Dehra Dun
PIN 248 001