TARPON SPRINGS

Station ID TAS Latitude 28° 09.341' N Station Type Shore based Longitude 82° 45.476' W Responsible Agency USF Site notes The COMPS Tarpon Springs station is physically located within the municipal marina near the historic sponge docks at 28° 09.341' N (28.156 N) and 82° 45.476' W (82.758 W). Instrumentation (mounted along the east side of the Harbor Master's building) monitors Wind Speed/Direction, Relative Humidity/Air Temperature, Barometric Pressure, Precipitation, and Water Level. Data is hourly transmitted via the GOES satellite for internet posting as well as radio modemed directly to the Tarpon Springs Fire Department. Site funding is via a cooperative effort between the Tarpon Springs Fire Department and the University of South Florida's/College of Marine Science. This site became an operational COMPS coastal station on 2/12/2001. Instrumentation and recent service history Station photos Data Download

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Measurements are made every 6 minutes and are downloaded hourly via GOES satellite. Time reported is UTC (Coordinated Universal Time): subtract 5 hours for EST, subtract 4 hours for EDT.
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Meteorological and Marine Data

Local system date : 11-07-09, Year-Day 311
Posted at time (UTC) : 19:25 (14:25 EST)
Data timestamp (UTC): Sat 7-Nov-2009 1854
Water Level	-0.211 m	-0.69 ft
Barometric pressure	1018.4 mbar	30.07 in Hg
Air temperature	26.6°C	79.9°F
Relative humidity	41.2%
Wind speed	3.5 ms-1	6.8 knots
Wind Gusts	7.0 ms-1	13.6 knots
Wind direction	84°True

Water level referenced to NAVD 88 datum as of 07-17-2002 1930h UTC
Missing data represented by -99

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