=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 09-Jul-1992
Gauges in Eastern Germany (Wismar, Warnemunde, Sassnitz, Koserow) as of March 1992 are type 'Steremat', vertical drum , swimmer principle Measures 1:10, continuous registration on paper chart, information from L. Ballani, Potsdam
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 29-Jan-2002
The Sassnitz data from 1936-1977 are the so-called 'Lindner values' measured with respect to Pegelnull (PN) = 5000 mm below NN. Data were supplied by authority Wasserwirtschaftsdirektion Kuste of the former DDR). They were derived mostly from once per day values as follows:
JAN 36 - FEB 52 ONCE PER DAY AT 1200; MAR 52 - JUN 52 AT 1300;
JUL 52 - OCT 55 AT 0800; NOV 55 - OCT 59 FROM SO CALLED
Approximated daily mean; NOV 59 - OCT 80 AT 0700 (information from L.Ballani, Potsdam March 1992).
The location in this period was said to be 54 32N 13 40 E.   The data for 1978-87 were obtained from authority Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam) based on 24 readings per day. Data for 1992- were obtained from BSH, Germany based on 24 readings per day.
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 29-Jan-2002
Sassnitz            120/004 RLR(2002) is 45.908m below BM 4.052.13.1321
=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 09-Aug-2010
The data for Sassnitz 1936-1977 was measured to PN datum (PN=HN-514cm.) Data from 1978-1987 referred to datum HN76. It is unusual for a station such as this to be made RLR as it 'breaks the rules' of RLR. Data now refers to TGZ.

