Station

Location

Record length (months)

Trend
(mm yr^-1)

1

Cook Islands*

77

+2.6

2

Samoa

77

-7.7

3

Tonga

78

+17.8

4

Tuvalu*

75

-22.0

5

Fiji

82

+0.01

6

Kiribati*

75

-22.0

7

Marshall Islands*

71

+2.9

8

Vanuatu

68

+1.1

9

Nauru*

72

-24.2

10

Solomon Islands

58 (with gaps)

-9.7

11

PNG

45 (with gaps)

+0.5

Table 2: Recent sea level trends in the project area, based upon project data to July 1999. Asterisks indicate countries seriously threatened by sea level rise.