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.
Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: BRO1
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: brom
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 166: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 166: hourly and daily
Station density along some sections of the Australian coast has meant that station codes 601 onwards have been re-ordered compared to those in earlier versions of the PSMSL data set.
Documentation added 1996-03-28
Revised data received from the National Tidal Centre, Bureau of Meteorology, South Australia. SEAFRAME station installed 27/11/1991
Documentation added 1998-01-21
up to 1971: gauge type=Leupold and Stevens
Documentation added 2000-04-10
This is a "baseline station" of the Australian National Tidal Facility.
Documentation added 2000-04-10
Broome 680/497 RLR(1996) is 14.94m below "Tidal BM"
Documentation added 2011-10-20
From information from both the National Tidal Centre and Geoscience Australia it appears that the datum reference for Broome has been changed from Tide Gauge Zero (TGZ) to Lowest Astronomical Tide (LAT). Lat is 0.86m below TGZ and 5.322 below the national datum AHD. To accommodate the change the RLR factor has been revised from 2.4m to 1.54m.
Documentation added 2019-01-23
Data values for February, March, April and June 2016 have been revised.
Data Authority
National Tidal Centre Bureau of Meteorology PO Box 421 Kent Town 5071 South Australia