Data



Data Notes



Extracted from Database

09 Sep 2019

TIMARU HARBOUR

Station Information

Station ID: 998
Latitude: -44.39414
Longitude: 171.25613
Coastline code: 690
Station code: 26
Country: NEW ZEALAND
Time span of data: 1962 – 2018
Completeness (%): 39
Date of last update: 23 Jul 2019

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 TIMARU HARBOUR.

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

Plot of annual mean sea level data at TIMARU HARBOUR.

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)

Research Quality Data from UHSLC station 665: hourly and daily

Station Documentation

Link to RLR information.

Documentation added 1995-05-25

data prior to 1994 received from auth 53

Documentation 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 2008-10-01

Revised data received from Glen Rowe at LINZ
data span 1987-2007. Previous data for 1994 from
database copied data replaced with revised dataset.

Documentation added 2010-10-18

Following correspondence with Glen Rowe it was confirmed that the datum at
Timaru has been as follows:
Pre 1976 TGZ =5.301m below benchmark UD 44
Post 1976 TGZ =5.286m below UD 44
Previous benchmark UD 42 is 0.466m above UD 44

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 Timaru the adjust is -0.008m.

Data Authority

Land Information New Zealand
155 The Terrace
PO 5501
Wellington 6145