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Present - 2014

The Mean Sea Level was offset in the data on July 11, 2016, from 0.960m to 0.958606m

Installed a new gauge on March 9, 2015

A new sensor was was put online January 31, 2014

2014 is missing several months of data.


PALMOS AUTOMATED TIDE DATA SYSTEM
PALMER STATION, ANTARCTICA
Geographic Position
64 46’28.74” S / 64 03’18.86” W


A description of the archived data files. 


Filename: YYMMDDTHHMMSS.txt
	where	
		YY = Year
		MM = Month
		DD = Day
		T = Tide
		HH = Hour (UTC)
		MM = Minute
		SS = Second
		


Column	Label                  Units		   Example
------	-----	               -----		   -----------
  1	    Date                   (MM/DD/YYYY)	   12/31/2016 
  2	    UTC Time               (HH:MM:SS)      00:03:00	
  3     Input Voltage          (V)             12.8996
  4     Input Voltage Avg      (V)             13.3387
  5     Voltage Min            (V)             12.8996
  6     Input Voltage Max      (V)             13.427
  7     CPU Core Active        (%)             100	
  8     Memory Used            (Bytes)         14974976
  9     Internal Temperature   (DegC)          6
  
  From Conductivity Sensor:
  10    Conductivity           (mS/cm)         26.0655	
  11    Temperature            (Deg.C)         2.52705
  12    Conductance            (mS)            5.63943
  13    RawCond0               (LSB)           20630
  14    RawCond1               (LSB)           20630	
  15    ZAmp                   (mV)            -3066.23
  16    RawTemp                (mV)            2371.17	

  From Tide Sensor  
  17    Pressure               (kPa)           114.473	
  18    Temperature            (DegC)	       2.57856	
  19    Tide Pressure          (kPa)	       114.379	
  20    Tide Level             (m)             0.338454   


  
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 2013 - 1993
  
  2013 is incomplete with missing MM and RAW data files.
  
  From February 2007 -July 2007 each month is missing the MM and RAW files.  They all have Dat files. 
  
  DATA before 2001 is incomplete.
  
  In the .DAT files generated by the tide gauge, the columns:

Date       GMT Time  YearHr   MonthHr  SST1  SST2  Conductivity   Salinity   Height

01-13-2004 17:40:00, 305.667, 305.667, 2.05, 1.98, 24.610,        27.365,    -0.278

Heights are in meters.

"YearHour" is the elapsed time in hours for the year starting on Jan 1st at 0000Hrs GMT.
The next column is "MonthHour" starting at the first day of each month
at 000Hrs GMT (in January of course, they're the same.)

The SST2 data is erroneous and should not be used, and since it is used to
calculate Conductivity and Salinity, these should not be used either.  

There are two pressure measurements listed, both of which are from the Tide Sensor: 
"Pressure (kPa)" and "Tide Pressure (kPa)"
The "Pressure" measurement is just absolute pressure at the installation depth and is the 
instantaneous pressure measurement at the given interval.  
The "Tide Pressure" is an average of the pressure time series over the tidal average period, 
which is user configured, with the default most likely being 40 seconds.