Data and Station Information for PORT SAID

Station Information

Station ID:	253
Latitude:	31.25
Longitude:	32.3
Coastline code:	330
Station code:	1
Country:	EGYPT
Time span of data:	1923 – 1946
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.

Tide Gauge Data

Plot of monthly mean sea level data at PORT SAID.

Link to larger image of monthly data plot.
Download monthly mean sea level data.

Plot of annual mean sea level data at PORT SAID.

Link to larger image of annual data plot.
Download annual mean sea level data.

Download metric sea level data. Use only with extreme caution. NOTE: If some of the data are red in the plots above, the 'flag for attention' is set. Please see the documentation below.

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Port Said 330/001 RLR(1946) is 8.3m below BM

Documentation added 1993-03-17

Apparent datum shift in RLR record around 1936.

Documentation added 1994-07-14

For a discussion of submergence near to Port Said see Emery and Aubrey (Sea Levels, Land Levels and Tide Gauges), 1991, Springer-Verlag, page 35. However, see also note above about possible datum shift in the tide gauge data.

Documentation added 1997-10-01

Analysis of Suez Canal data is described by F.M.Eid, S.H.Sharaf El-Din and K.A.Alam El-Din, "Sea-level variation along the Suez Canal",Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science,44,613-619,1997.

Data Authority

Egyptian National Oceanographic Data Centre
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries
Kayet Bay
Alexandria

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

PORT SAID