KNYSNA

Documentation added 1991-06-11

Knysna 430/086 RLR(1964) is 9.7m below BM SAN1

Documentation added 1996-08-28

For discussions of MSL changes and extreme sea levels around Namibia and South Africa, see: G.B.Brundrit, S.Afr.J.Mar.Sci.,16,9-17,1995 and S.Searson and G.B.Brundrit, S.Afr.J.of Science, 91,579-588,1995. 1960 - 1972 VALUES BASED ON 8 READINGS PER DAY

Documentation added 2006-11-28

Station flagged data generally suspect. Large spike in dataset Nov/Dec 2002 values very suspect.

Documentation added 2009-09-24

Heights of chart datum relative to land levelling datum in South Africa and Namibia: Knysna Datum: up to 31st Dec 1978 = -0.625 Datum: 1st Jan 1979 - 31st Dec 1997 = -0.900 Datum: 1st Jan 1998 - 31st Dec 2002 = -1.048 Datum: 1st Jan 2003 onwards = -0.788 Datum is now LAT so unlikely to change.

Documentation added 2010-05-11

There appears to be a spike in Nov/Dec 2002 see above. This is possibly real as it appears in several of the S. African stations.

Documentation added 2019-11-07

The South African Navy Hydrographic Office (SANHO) are the copyright owners of the Knysna sea level data and must be contacted to request permission to use the data.

Documentation added 2021-02-10

"The South African Hydrographic Office have asked us to remove this record in line with the Hydrographic Act of 2019 (Act No. 35 of 2019) and the South African Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, 2003 (Act No. 54 of 2003). The data can be obtained directly from SANHO (email: hydrosan@iafrica.com)