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.
Porto Empedocle on Sicily is a new station database id.2083. 2001 data onwards was downloaded from the Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) website. Metadata were also extracted.
Documentation added 2012-08-02
Porto Empedocle is now RLR. Primary benchmark 103D3/1 3.8627m (displayed as 3.863m on diagram) above national Italian Military Geographic Institute (IGM)altimetric datum.
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