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The Australian-funded Pacific Sea Level Monitoring (PSLM) network is the only monitoring system of its kind in the Pacific. Since its establishment in 1991, it has provided policy makers, development planners, and scientists in the Pacific Islands with important and reliable information about sea level variability in the region.

Formerly known as the South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project (SPSLCMP), the monitoring array was implemented in 12 member countries as a response to increasing regional concern about climate change-associated sea-level rise.

Over-water monitoring stations in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, PNG, RMI, FSM, Kiribati, Cook Islands, Palau, Tuvalu, and Nauru provide a continuous stream of high quality data on sea level, temperature (water and air), barometric pressure and wind speed and direction. In addition, land-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) stations measure land movements, providing a geodetic benchmark and accurate relative sea level change.

Processed and analysed data are available to the international community and information products and targeted training are delivered to relevant stakeholders in Pacific Island countries.

The PSLM project is housed under the Climate and Oceans Support Program in the Pacific (COSPPac) managed by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

The project aims to provide an accurate long-term record of sea levels in the South Pacific for member countries and the international scientific community, enabling them to respond to and manage related impacts.

Follow the links below to access PSLM data products:

For more information contact:

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Newsflash

Tuesday, July 26, Rarotonga, Cook Islands -  Delegates from Pacific Islands countries gathered in Rarotonga, the Cook Islands today for a week long meeting to discuss the region’s water and sanitation issues. They were reminded that finding solutions to pressing water and sanitation problems was urgent and vital to the future development and health of the Pacific’s people and environment.

“The work we are here to discuss, and plan a way forward for, represents one of the region’s most critical struggles, the struggle to protect the rights of men, women, boys and girls to safe water and sanitation,” said Dr Russell Howorth Director of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC).