Implementación de CGPS en la costa mediterranea para Monitorización del Nivel del Mar

Abstract

L 'Estartit floating tide gauge was set up in 1990. Data are taken in graphics registers from each two hours the mean value is recorded in an electronic support. L 'Estartit tide gauge series provides good quality information about the changes in the sea heights at centimeter level., that is the magnitude of the common tides in the Mediterranean. This data has been used to compute the Mean Sea Surface MSS using GPS Buoys along an ascending track of Topex/Poseidon (July 2000) and Jason-I (August 2002). In the framework of the Spanish Space Project refESP2005- 05829, the instrumentation of sea level measurements will be improved by providing a radar tide gauge and a continuous GPS station in a coastal convenient location at the the NE Spanish area. The main objective wil! be rhe estimation from the time series of sea level change in the area. lt is intended that the overal! system will constitute a CGPS station ofthe TlGA (GPS Tide Gauge Benchmark Monitoring) network.