=========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 04-Jul-1995 1882-1991 readings from staff gauge and based on 3 or 4 readings per day 1927-31, 1940, 1948-89 type of bubbler gauge =========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 06-Nov-1997 Since 1990 observations from an unspecified tide gauge =========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 10-Dec-1997 3 or 4 observations per day are made in days with heavy winds and storms =========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 10-Mar-1999 For a discussion on sea level trends along Black Sea coasts see Variations of the Black Sea Level by S.G.Boguslavsky et al.,Physical Oceanography, 9(3), 199-208, 1998. =========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 10-Mar-1999 See also comments under Bourgas (code 295/021). =========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 31-May-2001 Batumi tide gauge not functioning 1997 - April 2001. =========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 28-Nov-2006 Whole dataset flagged whole profile suspect. =========================== FOLLOWING PSMSL DOCUMENTATION ADDED 30-Sep-2010 The tectonic zone that the station of Batumi sits on is rising so the station has been flagged. See letter of 18.01.10.