The University of Hawaii Sea Level Center (UHSLC)
is a research facility of the University of Hawaii/NOAA Joint Institute
for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)
within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
(SOEST).
The UHSLC originated as the TOGA Sea Level Center under the leadership
of Professor Klaus Wyrtki
of the University
of Hawaii, Department
of Oceanography. The center was a natural extension of Professor Wyrtki's
pioneering research on the El Nino Southern Oscillation in the Pacific
Ocean. Under the current direction of
Dr. Mark Merrifield,
the mission of the UHSLC is to collect, process, distribute, and analyze in-situ tide
gauge data from around the world in support of climate research. Primary
support for the UHSLC comes from
NOAA's
Office of Global Programs
(OGP).
Funding is also provided by
NASA under the
JASON program for the development of In Situ
Tide Gauge/GPS Stations for Monitoring the Temporal Drift of Satellite Altimeters.
The UHSLC also hosts the Joint Archive for Sea Level
(JASL), a collaborative effort with the
National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).
Supporting Programs:
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