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Data Notes



Extracted from Database

19 Sep 2022

GENOVA

Station Information

Station ID: 59
Latitude: 44.4
Longitude: 8.9
Coastline code: 250
Station code: 11
Country: ITALY
Time span of data: 1884 – 1997
Completeness (%): 78
MTL Data: 1884-1977
MTL-MSL (mm): -2
Date of last update: 27 Jan 2016

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 GENOVA.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at GENOVA.

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 GNSS Stations from SONEL: GENO, GENU
Nearby Real Time Stations from VLIZ: GE25

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation - date unknown

Before 1978 values based on readings of high and low waters

Documentation - date unknown

Genova is an historic station last data 1997

Documentation added 1992-08-06

Italian levels may be influenced by the Messina earthquake of 1908 - See Bottari et al., Tectonophysics 202, 269-275, 1992

Documentation added 1993-03-17

The stations Porto Maurizio (250/001), Napoli Arsenale (250/041) and Napoli Mandraccio (250/051) appear to each have a datum shift around 1910. Evidence for regional coherence?

Documentation added 1994-04-22

Data for 1979-88 revised April 1994

Documentation added 1994-07-14

Anomalously large value for December 1989 queried with authority.

Documentation added 1998-12-07

For a discussion of land movements in the area of the Gulf of Naples, see the paper by G.Berrino in Tectonophysics,294,323-332,1998.

Documentation added 1999-04-28

1989 revised, 28th April 1999

Documentation added 2000-01-25

Genova 250/011 RLR(1963) is 10.2m below BM

Documentation added 2016-01-22

A value of MTL-MSL=-2 mm has been applied to the RLR data for the period 1884-1977. The values were derived using the GESLA2 (high-frequency tide gauge) dataset using harmonic constituents.

Data Authority

Istituto Idrografico della Marina
Passo Osservatorio 4
16134 Genova

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