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.
Auckland II 690/002 RLR(1986) is 10.2m below Auckland Harbour BM
Documentation added 2000-04-05
Data for this station come from the work of John Hannah, Journal of Geophysical Research, 95(B8), 12399-12405, 1990.
Documentation added 2000-04-26
The RLR time series for Auckland-Waitemata (690/001) and Auckland II (690/002) are measured with respect to the same datum so they can be combined if required.
Documentation added 2003-01-17
New data from John Hannah added 17/01/03 which supercedes old data. New data does not have any missing days information. Old data has been backed up.
Documentation added 2003-01-17
New data from John Hannah was for Auckland II, Dunedin II, Lyttelton II and Wellington II.
Documentation added 2005-10-17
There is a new John Hannah paper referring to New Zealand data for Wellington, Dunedin, Lyttelton and Auckland. The reference is: "An updated analysis of long-term sea level change in New Zealand." Geophysical Research Letters, V31, L03307, doi:10.1029/2003GL019166 (2004).
Documentation added 2012-07-05
Data for 1973 onwards has been adjusted to the Hannah datum to refer to RLR (1986)
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