Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

20 May 2019

FUNAFUTI

Station Information

Station ID: 1452
Latitude: -8.533333
Longitude: 179.216667
GLOSS ID: 121
Coastline code: 732
Station code: 11
Country: TUVALU
Time span of data: 1977 – 1999
Completeness (%): 92
Date of last update: 21 Mar 2001

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 FUNAFUTI.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at FUNAFUTI.

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: fong
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 25: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 25: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1991-10-08

RLR(1989) IS 8.8M BELOW BM UH-1 8/10/91

Documentation added 1993-07-12

Funafuti 732/011 RLR(1989) is 8.8m below BM UH-1

Documentation added 2000-03-09

all data up to and including 1998 received from University of Hawaii Sea Level Center

Documentation added 2002-08-13

Gauge types: (Oct 1977 - Aug 1986 )Fischer and Porter Analog-to-Digital Recorder (ADR) (Aug 1986-May 1990) Leupold and Stevens Analog-to-Digital Recorder (ADR); (Aug 1986-present) Handar Encoder 436A (ENC) (Jul 1988-present) Handar Encoder 436B (ENB) with datalogger (ENO)NTF: Aquatrak acoustic gauge (SEAFRAME) from 1993 Primary gauge for UH purposes: ADR:1974-4/90, ENC 5/1990-1994 ENB: 1995-1999, NTF: 2000-

Documentation added 2018-06-14

Data for 2000 and 2001 removed - this data was recorded by Australian National Tidal Centre's gauge (ID 1839) and was incorrectly attached to this site

Data Authority

University of Hawaii
Department of Oceanography Division of Natural Sciences
1000 Pope Road
Honolulu
Hawaii 96822