Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

20 May 2019

PUERTO WILLIAMS

WARNING: QCFLAG EXISTS. PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENTATION.

Station Information

Station ID: 1122
Latitude: -54.916667
Longitude: -67.616667
Coastline code: 850
Station code: 81
Country: CHILE
Time span of RLR data: 1965 – 1970
RLR completeness (%): 99
Time span of metric data: 1965 – 2018
Metric completeness (%): 51
Date of last update: 15 May 2019

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.

Tide Gauge Data

Plot of monthly mean sea level data at PUERTO WILLIAMS.

Link to larger image of monthly data plot.
Download monthly mean sea level data.

Plot of annual mean sea level data at PUERTO WILLIAMS.

Link to larger image of annual data plot.
Download annual mean sea level data.

Download metric sea level data. Use only with extreme caution.
NOTE: If some of the data are red in the plots above, the 'flag for attention' is set. Please see the documentation below.

Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)

Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: pwil, pwil2
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 287: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1993-07-12

Puerto Williams 850/081 RLR(1965) is 12.8m below BM3

Documentation added 1996-01-03

There was a magnitude 7.8 earthquake about 20 km offshore of northern Chile on 30 July 1995 which produced a tsunami of 1.3 m at Caldera and which was seen in many records across the Pacific (information from NTF, Australia).

Documentation added 2001-01-26

For a review of the new Chilean tide gauge network, see "Tides in the Chilean Coasts" by Juan J. Fierro, Hydro International,Jan/Feb 2001, pp.7-9.Coastline prone to earthquake activity;
Data possibly affected as a result.

Documentation added 2018-07-10

SHOA have once again supplied data for Puerto Williams. Until the data is checked it has been included in the Metric series

Data Authority

Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Chilean Navy
Errazuriz 254
Playa Ancha
Valparaiso