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Cormorant AWS wave buoy daily means for Jul 2016

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

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

743 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 3.9 ft (10th–90th percentile 2.3–5.6 ft), while mean reported wave period; measurement type unavailable was 5.2 seconds (10th–90th percentile 4–6 seconds). Typical wind was 10.3 mph (10th–90th percentile 4.7–20.8 mph). All 2,972 checked values passed quality control. Across 2 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 4.2 ft and mean wave period was above the same-month mean of 5.1 seconds.

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

Typical Wave Height

3.9ft
Mean: 4.1 ft
P10–P90: 2.3 — 5.6 ft
Recorded extremes

1.3 — 11.2 ft

Mean Wave Period

5.2secs
P10–P90: 4 — 6secs
Recorded extremes

3 — 8secs

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 743 hourly samples

Typical Wind

WSW, 10.3mph
Mean: 11.7 mph
P10–P90: 4.7 — 20.8 mph
Recorded extremes

0 — 34.4 mph

Circular concentration: 38%

Compared With Previous Julys

Historical baseline from 1,483 observations across 2 years.

Wave Height
4.1ft
0.1ft below mean
Historical mean 4.2ft
Wave Period
5.2s
0.1s above mean
Historical mean 5.1s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Cormorant 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 Cormorant AWS wave buoy

Cormorant AWS (WMO 63112) 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; the parameters available through the international feed depend on the platform's installed sensors.

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Cormorant AWS wave buoy daily means Jul 2016Last observation shown
Metric
Mean wave height (ft)534334455555433QC rejectedQC rejected44453223534434
Mean observed period(s)5Reported6Reported6Reported5Reported5Reported6Reported5Reported5Reported6Reported5Reported6Reported7Reported6Reported5Reported5Reported6Reported6Reported6Reported5Reported5Reported5Reported5Reported4Reported3Reported4Reported5Reported5Reported5Reported5Reported5Reported5Reported
Mean wave power(kW/m)-------------------------------
Mean wind directionSconcentration 85%WSWconcentration 97%Wconcentration 98%WSWconcentration 90%NNWconcentration 95%NWconcentration 90%SSWconcentration 74%SSWconcentration 88%NWconcentration 57%ESEconcentration 81%Sconcentration 62%WNWconcentration 96%Nconcentration 91%Nconcentration 98%Variableconcentration 12%WSWconcentration 88%WNWconcentration 76%Variableconcentration 26%WSWconcentration 83%SSEconcentration 98%SSWconcentration 52%SSEconcentration 67%Variableconcentration 24%Sconcentration 99%SSEconcentration 85%SWconcentration 97%SSWconcentration 91%WSWconcentration 88%SWconcentration 67%WNWconcentration 73%WNWconcentration 74%
Mean wind speed (mph)1561061112151311164511141026135132318671419198106610
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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