Fanø Bugt wave buoy observations on Mon, Dec 12, 2016
Hourly readings from the Fanø Bugt wave buoy for Mon, Dec 12, 2016, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.
Period Summary
Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says48 wave-buoy observations were recorded during the day. Typical wave height was 2.3 ft (10th–90th percentile 1.6–3.5 ft), while mean average wave period was 4.4 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.5–5.2 seconds). All 143 checked values passed quality control.
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for Mon, Dec 12, 2016
About Fanø Bugt wave buoy
Fanø Bugt is a Danish Coastal Authority directional buoy in the eastern North Sea southwest of Esbjerg. Its setting between the open sea, the island of Fanø and the approaches to the Wadden Sea represents conditions relevant to the harbour entrance, tidal inlets and the low-lying southwest Danish coast.
Its current data source reports wave height, wave period and wave direction.
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| Significant wave height (ft) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Maximum wave height (ft) | 8 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Average period (s) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Zero-crossing period (s) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | - | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Peak wave direction | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | - | W | W | W | W | W | WNW | W | W | WNW | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | WSW | W | S | S | SSW | SSW | SSW | SSW | SSW | SSW | SSW |
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Observation data source
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