Data and Station Information for SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA

Station Information

Station ID:	2126
Latitude:	34.408333
Longitude:	-119.685
Coastline code:	823
Station code:	48
Country:	UNITED STATES
Time span of data:	1973 – 2023
Completeness (%):	64
Date of last update:	10 Jan 2024

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 SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA.

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Plot of annual mean sea level data at SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA.

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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 GNSS Stations from SONEL: RCA2, EOCG
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 577: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 2012-01-23

Santa Barbar, California is a new station data and metadata downloaded from NOAA. Station made RLR Primary benchmark is 1340 S 2005 4.141m above TGZ. RLR factor 5.159m.

Documentation added 2012-09-18

For information: Data values during the early 1980's appear to be particurlarly high. This phenomenon could be due to the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)as it is mirrored all along the Californian coast.

Documentation added 2014-03-11

The datum has changed to be Mean Lower Low Water. Using the NOAA datum sheet the RLR diagram has been revised.Reference benchmark remains the same but the RLR factor has changed beacause of this.

Data Authority

N.O.A.A. / N.O.S.
N/oes33, Ssmc4, Room 6531
1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring,
MD 20910

Data

Data Notes

Extracted from Database

SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA