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Beryl A AWS wave buoy daily means for Dec 2016

Daily means from the Beryl A AWS wave buoy for Dec 2016, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

740 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 8.9 ft (10th–90th percentile 4.3–20 ft), while mean reported wave period; measurement type unavailable was 6.8 seconds (10th–90th percentile 5–9 seconds). Typical wind was 20.8 mph (10th–90th percentile 11.4–36.9 mph). 19 of 2,960 checked values (0.6%) were excluded by quality control. Across 3 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 12.2 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 7.2 seconds.

Generated only from the observations and comparisons shown on this page.

Typical Wave Height

8.9ft
Mean: 10.5 ft
P10–P90: 4.3 — 20 ft
Recorded extremes

0 — 32.2 ft

Available for 739 of 740 hourly samples

Mean Wave Period

6.8secs
P10–P90: 5 — 9secs
Recorded extremes

4 — 10secs

Available for 722 of 740 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 740 hourly samples

Typical Wind

WSW, 20.8mph
Mean: 22.2 mph
P10–P90: 11.4 — 36.9 mph
Recorded extremes

2.2 — 61.1 mph

Circular concentration: 67%

Compared With Previous Decembers

Historical baseline from 2,218 observations across 3 years.

Wave Height
10.5ft
1.7ft below mean
Historical mean 12.2ft
Wave Period
6.8s
0.4s below mean
Historical mean 7.2s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Beryl A AWS. Use the table on this page for a text version of the same measurements. To open hourly observations, use a linked day name in the table.

About Beryl A AWS wave buoy

Beryl A AWS (WMO 63110) is an automatic weather station on a privately operated oil platform in the northern North Sea. It is not a free-floating wave buoy. The station provides offshore meteorological observations for operations and forecasting, with available parameters determined by the platform's installed sensors.

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Beryl A AWS wave buoy daily means Dec 2016Last observation shown
Metric
Mean wave height (ft)12964455567976810987613171817QC rejected17251711101311
Mean observed period(s)7Reported7Reported6Reported5Reported4Reported5Reported6Reported6Reported6Reported6Reported7Reported6Reported7Reported6Reported6Reported6Reported7Reported7Reported6Reported7Reported8Reported8Reported8Reported9Reported8Reported9Reported9Reported7Reported7Reported7Reported8Reported
Mean wave power(kW/m)-------------------------------
Mean wind directionNWconcentration 89%NNWconcentration 81%Wconcentration 98%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 98%SSWconcentration 81%SSWconcentration 94%WSWconcentration 98%SWconcentration 88%WSWconcentration 98%NWconcentration 50%SSWconcentration 92%Variableconcentration 29%SSEconcentration 98%Sconcentration 99%Sconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 91%SWconcentration 98%SWconcentration 78%Sconcentration 95%SWconcentration 95%WSWconcentration 95%SWconcentration 81%Wconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 87%WNWconcentration 90%WNWconcentration 90%SWconcentration 96%SWconcentration 98%SWconcentration 96%WNWconcentration 95%
Mean wind speed (mph)27111313141726251620131712282822171615312934333832442217222314
Mean water temperature(°C)-------------------------------

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Wave & swell height0–40+ ft
Wave & swell period0–22+ s
Wind speed0–75 mph

The displayed numbers remain the source of truth; colour is an additional visual cue.

Which wave period is shown?

The table shows the best period measurement supplied for each observation. It is not necessarily the energy period used to calculate wave power.

Tp
Peak period: the period at the strongest spectral peak.
Tavg
The provider's average wave period.
Tm02
A mean period calculated from the wave spectrum.
Tz
Mean zero-crossing period.
Reported
A legacy value whose period type was not recorded.
Mixed
A daily or monthly mean containing more than one period type.

Wave power needs a genuine energy period (Te). SurfHog does not substitute Tp, Tavg, Tm02 or Tz when Te is missing.

What does buoy wave power mean?

kW/m means kilowatts of wave power per metre of wave crest. It describes the rate at which the observed sea state carries energy past the buoy.

Unlike the shore-directed forecast value, buoy wave power is the total power at the observation point. It is not projected towards a particular beach and does not predict breaking wave height.

In deep water, wave power can be calculated with:

P is approximately 0.49 times significant wave height squared times wave energy period.

P is power in kW/m, Hs is significant wave height in metres, and Te is wave energy period in seconds.

  • Provider-reported power is used when available.
  • Otherwise, a value is calculated only when both significant height and a genuine energy period are available. The ≈ symbol marks calculated values.
  • A dash is shown instead of substituting peak, Tm02, zero-crossing or other period measurements.
  • Daily and monthly figures use the mean of hourly-normalized observation power values; they are not calculated from mean height and period.

Wave direction, spectrum, water depth and local bathymetry still matter. Wave power is best read alongside height, period and direction rather than as a standalone surf-quality score.

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