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.
Station density along some sections of the Australian coast has meant that station codes 601 onwards have been re-ordered compared to those in earlier versions of the PSMSL data set. Data up to 1963 supplied by the Australian Ocean Data Centre, N.S.W.
Documentation added 1996-05-20
Revised data for 1963-1985 received from authority the National Tidal Centre, Bureau of Meteorology, South Australia
Documentation added 2010-09-14
Station originally located in outer harbour at 33° 18' 34.8" S, 115° 38' 28.1" E Relocated to inner harbour in September 2001
Documentation added 2010-09-14
Supplier has confirmed that for all metric data, tide gauge zero is Chart Datum. At previous location primary benchmark A103 was 3.951 m above Chart Datum. Primary benchmark Tidal BM 2001 is 3.939 m above Chart Datum. RLR (2008) defined as 10.2 m below Tidal BM 2001.
Documentation added 2011-10-18
Using data from the National Tidal Centre, Australia benchmark A426 3.698m above CD has been added to the RLR diagram.
Documentation added 2013-08-20
When recently downloaded from the NTC website the data up to 2009 had an offset of 70mm. The owning authority had adjusted the historic data to agree with the data values following the revision of the datum to LAT. The RLR factor for the data up to 2009 has been adjusted to accomodate this.
Data Authority
National Tidal Centre Bureau of Meteorology PO Box 421 Kent Town 5071 South Australia