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Extracted from Database
23 Jun 2025
WARNING: METRIC STATION
THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA.
USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA.
USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
Station Information
| Station ID: | 261 |
| Latitude: | 42.633333 |
| Longitude: | 27.766667 |
| Coastline code: | 295 |
| Station code: | 31 |
| Country: | BULGARIA |
| Time span of data: | 1924 – 1996 |
| Completeness (%): | 100 |
| Date of last update: | 25 Jul 1997 |
| 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
Station Documentation
Documentation added 1994-03-01
GAUGE BROKEN 18 NOVEMBER 1991, NEW GAUGE IN USE FROM 10 JANUARY 1992Documentation added 1997-07-25
data for 1988-92 revisedDocumentation added 1999-03-10
For a discussion on sea level trends along Black Sea coastssee Variations of the Black Sea Level by S.G.Boguslavsky et al.,
Physical Oceanography, 9(3), 199-208, 1998.
Documentation added 1999-03-10
Bulgarian sea levels likely to be heavily influenced by river flow.NEW GAUGE INSTALLED IN 1929
GAUGE MOVED IN 1964
NEW GAUGE INSTALLED IN 1977
DATUM STABILITY QUESTIONABLE 1924-1928
1947-1948 SUBSIDENCE OF BRIDGE WHERE GAUGE LOCATED
ACCURACY OF MEASUREMENTS QUESTIONABLE FOR 1976-1977
Data Authority
National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology66 Tzarigradsko Chausse
1784 Sofia
