HALDIA

Station Information

Station ID: 1270
Latitude: 22.033333
Longitude: 88.1
Coastline code: 500
Station code: 110
Country: INDIA
Time span of data: 1970 – 2021
Completeness (%): 95
Date of last update: 23 Nov 2023

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 added 1991-06-11

Haldia 500/110 RLR(1978) is 9.9m below BM BOM

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 2006-01-17

Anomalous value for Jan 2002 has been flagged.

Documentation added 2009-01-28

January 2002 spike.

Documentation added 2010-09-16

Primary benchmark is BM BOM 6.09m above chart datum

Documentation added 2012-10-09

From a sheet found from 1990 Primary benchmark is actually named as BM 1865.

Data Authority

Survey of India
Geodetic and Research Branch
17 E.C. Road
Dehra Dun
PIN 248 001