VERAVAL

Station Information

Station ID: 770
Latitude: 20.9
Longitude: 70.366667
GLOSS ID: 31
Coastline code: 500
Station code: 21
Country: INDIA
Time span of RLR data: 1955 – 1983
RLR completeness (%): 29
Time span of metric data: 1955 – 1983
Metric completeness (%): 47
MTL Data: 1955-1956
MTL-MSL (mm): 19
Date of last update: 27 Jan 2016

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 - date unknown

1955 - 1956 values based on high and low waters

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Veraval 500/021 RLR(1962) is 11.9m below GTS SBM 1955

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 2002-02-06

Veraval replaced by nearest port Porbandar in Feb. 1997, but was ravaged by cyclone in June 1998 and not yet reconstructed. Unsure when Veraval ceased operating.

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.

Documentation added 2016-01-26

A value of MTL-MSL=19 mm has been applied to the RLR data for the period 1955-1956. The value was derived using a historic databank of harmonic tidal constants gathered by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). Care must be taken when using these IHO constants, though, as there are many known errors in tidal amplitudes and phases.

Data Authority

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