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Qimera Supported Tide Formats
Qimera supports a large number of tide formats including QPS proprietary, tide data providers and industry standard tide formats.
This document details the tide data formats that are supported and provides examples of the formats and metadata where relevant. It also provides links to tide data providers.
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QPS Formats
QINSy Tide Data (*.qtd)
Binary tide files generated from QINSy Processing Manager.
Documentation on creating QTD files can be found in the Knowledge base here: Howto Tide - Tidal data
QINSy regular tide file
The date format is day/month/year
24/10/2009 10:10 1.24 24/10/2009 10:20 1.10 24/10/2009 10:30 0.98
Tide Data Providers and Formats
UK Tide Gauge Network, BODC Tide format
Data Source
Data from the UK tide gauge network is accessible from the British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Example
NOAA CO-OPs
Data Source
Preliminary and verified tide data for the US is available from the CO-OPS Data Retrieval website. Metadata should be included.
Examples
Additional Formats
Caris Tides (*.tid)
The date format is year/month/day.
-------- 2000/11/01 00:00 0.522 2000/11/01 01:00 0.317 2000/11/01 02:00 0.395 2000/11/01 03:00 0.751 2000/11/01 04:00 1.296 2000/11/01 05:00 1.848 2000/11/01 06:00 2.339 2000/11/01 07:00 2.589
Swedish Maritime Authority (*.niv)
56432:hamnmatning 20040819,1240, -0.06 20040819,1250, -0.05 20040819,1300, -0.03 20040819,1310, -0.02 20040819,1320, -0.02 20040819,1330, -0.04 20040819,1340, -0.04 20040819,1350, -0.04 20040819,1400, -0.05 20040819,1410, -0.04
ARGOSS - Fixed Format
See www.tidal-info.com for more information.
COWLIS - Canadian Hydrographic Service
MSQ Dialmace Format
DDMMYYYYHHMM x.xxx
Where:
DD = Day (01-31)
MM = Month (01-12)
YYYY = Year
HH = Hour (00-23)
MM = Min (00-59)
x.xxx = Tide value in meters
Example:
240619930000 2.227 240619930010 2.257 240619930020 2.282 240619930030 2.302 240619930040 2.312 240619930050 2.317 240619930100 2.315 240619930110 2.300 240619930120 2.277 240619930130 2.242 240619930140 2.197 240619930150 2.150
PREDUCT - Dutch Navy (*.qtr)
HY95069_1_SSS M2 43 / / * TMP/GLLWS WGS84 15/11/95 01:52:31 52;25;11.100N 003;45;17.802E -0.217 15/11/95 01:52:32 52;25;11.170N 003;45;17.847E -0.217 15/11/95 01:52:33 52;25;11.272N 003;45;17.881E -0.217
RIKZ - Dutch Public Works
YYYYmmddHHMM eeeeee.ee nnnnnn.nn xx.xxx
Where:
YYYY = Year (01-31)
mm = Month (01-12)
dd = Day (01-31)
HH = Hour (00-23)
MM = Min (00-59)
eeeeee.ee = Easting (UTM 5E) in meters
nnnnnn.nn = Northing (UTM 5E) in meters
xx.xxx = Tide value in meters
HMS - Fixed Format (*.log)
The filename for the format indicated the date, and should be in the format "YYYMMDD.log"
HH:MM:SS xxxxx
Where:
HH = Hour (00-23)
MM = Min (00-59)
xxxxx = Tide value in m or cm
Example:
00:00:01 24.69 Bige -0.09 24.78 56 00:01:01 24.69 Bige -0.09 24.78 56 00:02:01 24.69 Bige -0.09 24.78 56 00:03:01 24.69 Bige -0.09 24.78 56
DMY HMS - Fixed Format
dd/mm/YY HH:MM xxxx
Where:
dd = Day (01-31)
mm = Month (01-12)
YY = Year (00-99)
HH = Hour (00-23)
MM = Min (00-59)
xxxx = Tide value in m or cm
Example:
15/09/00 08:30 -2.02 15/09/00 08:40 -2.01 15/09/00 08:50 -2.01 15/09/00 09:00 -1.93
YMD HMS - Fixed Format
YYYYMMDD HHMM xxxx
Where:
YYYY = Year (0000 - 9999)
MM = Month (01-12)
DD = Day (01-31)
HH = Hour (00-23)
MM = Min (00-59)
xxxx = Tide value in m or cm
Example:
20000808 0000 -12 20000808 0010 -27 20000808 0020 -43 20000808 0030 -58 20000808 0040 -73 20000808 0050 -88 20000808 0100 -101 20000808 0110 -115 20000808 0120 -127
Finnish Maritime Administration
YYYY DD mm HH xx
Where:
YYYY = Year
dd = Day (1-31)
mm = Month (1-12)
HH = Hour (0-23)
xx = Tide value in cm
SHOM
Example:
# Station : BREST # Longitude : -4.49503994 # Latitude : 48.38290024 # Organisme fournisseur de données : SHOM / Marine nationale # Fuseau horaire : UTC # Unité : m # Source 1 : Données brutes temps réel # Source 2 : Données brutes 10 minutes temps différé # Source 3 : Données validées temps différé # Source 4 : Série horaire validée Date;Valeur;Source 24/03/2015 00:00:25;1.055;1 24/03/2015 00:01:25;1.041;1 24/03/2015 00:02:25;1.030;1 24/03/2015 00:00:00;3.055;2 24/03/2015 00:10:00;4.041;2 24/03/2015 00:20:00;5.030;2