Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

11 Mar 2019

LA PALMA

Station Information

Station ID: 2064
Latitude: 28.6778
Longitude: -17.76795
Coastline code: 370
Station code: 18
Country: SPAIN
Time span of data: 2007 – 2016
Completeness (%): 88
Date of last update: 20 Sep 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 LA PALMA.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at LA PALMA.

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: lapa
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 206: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2011-01-24

La Palma is on the island of La Palma in the Canaries. It is a new station first
data 2009 it forms part of the newly established REDMAR network. Gauge is a MIROS
radar sensor. Benchmark Pto.6.020 is 4.302m relative to the REDMAR datum.
See paper B. Perez et al 'Overlapping sea leveltime series measured using
different technologies: an example from the REDMAR Spanish network'.

Documentation added 2014-04-28

At the request of Puertos del Estado the latitude and longitude of 28.668889 -17.766667 derived from the previously supplied degrees and minutes value has been revised to 28.67780 -17.76795 tthe postion of the new MIROS gauge in decimal degrees.

Data Authority

Puertos del Estado
Area de Conocimiento y Analisis del Medio Fisico
Avda. del Partenon, 10
28042 Madrid

Documentation added 2001-03-06

The Area de Conocimiento y Analisis del Medio Fisico was
formerly known as the Departamento de Clima Maritimo.