EUROPEAN SEA LEVEL OBSERVING SYSTEM 

                                 Station Information Sheet 


 GLOSS Number
 Station name                            PUERTO DE LA LUZ 
 Country                                 Spain
 Time zone                               000E, GMT
 Latitude                                   28º 08' N 
 Longitude                                  15º 25' 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 the paper band is changes and there is a complete service ones a year.

 Gauge servicing agency                  our agency

 Observation periods                     8+18+7 (1949-1956) and (1971-1989) and (1991-1998)

 Gauge type                              float
 Sampling rate                           hourly. From1991 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 leveling of 1997.


 Tide gauge benchmark description        NGU-340 located inside of the tide gauge building. Tide Gauge-Puerto de la Luz Line

 Frequency of levelling                  Not very often

 Tide gauge zero relative to EUVN        

 Tide gauge zero relative to             TGZ under NMPLUZ is -1.445 meters.
 national levelling datum                

 Tide gauge zero relative to             NGU-340 over TGZ is 4.18 meters. NGU-340 over NMPLUZ is 2.735
 tide gauge benchmark                    

 Auxiliary benchmark description         SS2M, NGU632

 Permanent GPS within 1 km               No
 EUREF code                              
 Campaign GPS                            

 Geological substrate                    Basaltic.    The tide gauge building is located in a dike constructed with rubble infill.

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

 Any other information                   The information leveling is refered to the leveling of 1997.