MANGALORE

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Station Information

Station ID: 696
Latitude: 12.85
Longitude: 74.833333
Coastline code: 500
Station code: 71
Country: INDIA
Time span of RLR data: 1953 – 1976
RLR completeness (%): 87
Time span of metric data: 1952 – 1976
Metric completeness (%): 84
MTL Data: 1952-1957
MTL-MSL (mm): 0
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

1952 - 1957 values based on readings of high and low waters

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Mangalore 500/071 RLR(1964) is 10.4m below BM 54

Documentation added 1993-03-17

Possible datum shift following the data gap around 1960.

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 2002-12-06

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 2008-02-18

Mangalore tide gauge was located in a river estuary, unlike Mangalore Panamburu (500/070) which is on the open coast. The seasonal cycles of MSL are very different at the two locations.

Documentation added 2012-10-09

Mangalore is now an historic station. Last data is 1976.

Documentation added 2016-01-13

We have changed the first line above, indicating that the MTL ends in 1957, not 1956 as was previously stated. We have verified that the values in the database are those from Pub. Sci. 20, in which they were indicated as MTL. In addition, the starting year of 1953 was changed to 1952, in that the three values from 1952 are also MTL.

Documentation added 2016-01-26

A value of MTL-MSL=0 mm has been applied to the RLR data for the period 1952-1957. This 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