Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

01 Jul 2019

OKHA

Station Information

Station ID: 1395
Latitude: 22.466667
Longitude: 69.083333
Coastline code: 500
Station code: 14
Country: INDIA
Time span of data: 1975 – 2013
Completeness (%): 78
Date of last update: 27 Jun 2017

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 OKHA.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at OKHA.

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.

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1994-05-23

JUNE 1975 and JANUARY-APRIL 1978 UNRELIABLE

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 2003-01-27

Unreasonable values of JAN=2782, FEB=2761, MAR=2806 and APR=2869 deleted from 1978. See previous comments dated 23/05/94.

Documentation added 2010-09-16

Primary benchmark is BM 52 PP 5.23m above chart datum. This station was previously flagged. However, as individual data points can now be flagged the period commented on above has been flagged and the station flag removed.

Data Authority

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