WARNING: METRIC STATION THIS IS NOT RESEARCH QUALITY DATA. USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
Station Information
Station ID:
553
Latitude:
48.95
Longitude:
140.266667
Coastline code:
630
Station code:
201
Country:
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Time span of data:
1948 – 1979
Completeness (%):
100
Date of last update:
20 Apr 1998
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.
A destructive earthquake and tsunami occurred in the Kuril Islands on 4 October 1994 - see Earth System Monitor, 5(4), June 1995.
Documentation added 1998-04-06
NB the station codes for this country/area do not follow the coast sequentially
Documentation added 1998-04-06
The data for this station is referred to: Firsov P.B. Katalog of monthly sea level data for Japanese Sea coast in USSR.//Fondi DVNII, 1990. No details are known for the contributing authority or frequency of observations
Data Authority
Mr. Pat Caldwell University of Hawaii Sea Level Center Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii 1000 Pope Road, Honolulu Hawaii, 96822
Documentation added 2001-06-29
Data for stations under authority K4 were provided informally via Mr Pat Caldwell of the University of Hawaii Sea Level Center in 1998. They stemmed from earlier informal communication with Prof. Klaus Wyrtki at the University.