Data
- Obtaining
- Supplying
- High-Frequency
- Bottom Pressure Records
- Other Long Records
- GLOSS/ODINAFRICA Calibration Data
Data Notes
- Individual Station Data and Plot Notes
- Referencing the Data Set
- PSMSL Help File
- 2010 Changes to the PSMSL Data Files
Extracted from Database
22 Mar 2021
Station Information
| Station ID: | 221 |
| Latitude: | -41.28434 |
| Longitude: | 174.7798 |
| GLOSS ID: | 101 |
| Coastline code: | 690 |
| Station code: | 11 |
| Country: | NEW ZEALAND |
| Time span of RLR data: | 1944 – 2019 |
| RLR completeness (%): | 95 |
| Time span of metric data: | 1918 – 2019 |
| Metric completeness (%): | 80 |
| Date of last update: | 25 Aug 2020 |
| 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
Additional Data Sources (guide to additional data sources)
Nearby GNSS Stations from SONEL: WEL2, WEL1, WGTT, WGTNNearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: wlgt
Fast Delivery Data from UHSLC station 71: hourly and daily
Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 71: hourly and daily
Station Documentation
Link to RLR information.Documentation added 1993-07-12
Wellington 690/011 RLR(1961) is 9.0m below BM K80/1Documentation 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 2006-08-15
Prior to 1984 data were provided by authority 53 (Land Information New Zealand) and subsequently by the Royal NZ Navy (authority A5). Data for 1991 onwards are now provided by authority Department of Land and Survey N.Z. once again.Documentation added 2006-08-16
From information provided by LINZ in August 2006, it seems that there has only ever been one gauge at any one time at Wellington. Since the late 1880's it has been at Queen's Wharf except for a period at Waterloo Wharf during August 1990-August 1994.Documentation added 2008-10-01
Full dataset 1944-2007 received from Glen Rowe at LINZ.Documentation added 2018-06-28
The Kaikoura earthquake of 23:02 on the 13 November 2016 impacted on a number of stations in the central part of New Zealand. Because of this the hourly height values for several stations from 14th November 00:00hrs have been adjusted by LINZ. For station the Wellington the adjust is -0.027m.Documentation added 2020-08-25
The adjustment due to the KaikÅura earthquake of 2016 has been removed as relative sea level series should include land movement. LINZ now estimate the land movement to be +0.014mDocumentation added 2020-10-13
LINZ have determined that the benchmark 80/1 is unstable, so has been replaced by a new primary benchmark 80/2, which is 9.549m above RLRData Authority
Land Information New Zealand155 The Terrace
PO 5501
Wellington 6145
