EUROPEAN SEA LEVEL OBSERVING SYSTEM 

                                 Station Information Sheet 


 GLOSS Number                            243
 Station name                            CORUÑA 
 Country                                 Spain
 Time zone                               000E, GMT
 Latitude                                   43º 22' N 
 Longitude                                  08º 24' W 
 Ocean/sea                               Atlantic/ 

 Responsible country                     Spain
 Committed to GLOSS                      Yes
 Operational?                            Yes

 Point of contact                        María Jesús García,
                                         Instituto Español de Oceanografía
                                         Cl. Corazón de María 
                                          8       28020 Madrid  (Spain) 
                                         Spain
                                         Tel: 34 91 3473612
                                         Fax: 34 91 4135597
                                         E-mail: mjesus.garcia@md.ieo.es
                                         WWW: www.ieo.es


 Authority responsible                   Instituto Español de Oceanografía
 for tide gauge                          Cl. Corazón de María,
                                          8       28020 Madrid  (Spain) 
                                         Spain

 Gauge servicing interval                every 10 days change the paper band and ones a year the complete service.

 Gauge servicing agency                  our agency

 Observation periods                     55 years. (1943-1998)

 Gauge type                              float
 Sampling rate                           hourly. From dicember 1998 every 10 minutes.
 Digital data                            Yes
 Real time data                          No
 Storm surge warning gauge               No

 Additional parameters                   
 Any other parameters                   

 MSL method				                  

 Submission to PSMSL                     Yes
 PSMSL data holdings                     
 Other data banks			                  
 Additional information                  The information leveling is refered to the new compensation of 1998. The permanent GPS has been install by the IGN recentely.


 Tide gauge benchmark description        BM: NAPG-467. Located on the cliff of the pier of Marina dock.

 Frequency of levelling                  Not very often

 Tide gauge zero relative to EUVN        TGZ under EUVN is -2.844 meters

 Tide gauge zero relative to             TGZ under NMA is - 2.346 meters
 national levelling datum                

 Tide gauge zero relative to             NAPG-467 over TGZ is 5.76 meters. NAPG-467 over NMA is 3.414 meters.
 tide gauge benchmark                    

 Auxiliary benchmark description         napgh-364:altitude over NMA is 3.499 meters. NP-615: altutude over NMA is 5.076

 Permanent GPS within 1 km               Yes
 EUREF code                              
 Campaign GPS                            EUROGAUGE 93, EUROGAUGE 94

 Geological substrate                    lanfill. The tide gauge building is located over a dam construted with stones.

 Gauge signal likely to                  No
 be affected by river
 outflow, density
 changes etc

 Any other information                   The information leveling is refered to the new compensation of 1998. The permanent GPS has been install by the IGN recentely.