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Belle-Île wave buoy observations on Sun, Apr 1, 2018

Hourly readings from the Belle-Île wave buoy for Sun, Apr 1, 2018, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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48 wave-buoy observations were recorded during the day. Typical wave height was 5.7 ft (10th–90th percentile 4.7–6.8 ft), while mean peak wave period was 8.5 seconds (10th–90th percentile 6.2–10.1 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 9.9 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 7.2–17.2 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. All 144 checked values passed quality control.

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Line chart showing wave height, wave period and sea temperature for Belle-Île. Use the detailed observations table below for the same data in text form.

About Belle-Île wave buoy

Belle-Île is a CANDHIS directional buoy south of Brittany, maintained through the Cerema-coordinated sea-state observatory and research partners. Its open Atlantic position represents conditions approaching Belle-Île and the sheltered-to-exposed transition along the Morbihan coast.

Its current data source reports wave height, wave period, wave direction, directional spread and sea temperature.

Metrics are rows; hours run left to right. Times use your device time zone.
Belle-Île wave buoy hourly observations Sun, Apr 1, 2018Last observation shown
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Significant wave height (ft)887777776767766655555555555545555556666666666666
Maximum wave height (ft)1213101210109999910109999887877710776777787998991098910810119
Peak period (s)89999101081199910101198101110101010999910991096556666777788888
Average period (s)998888889988889989999889888776676666666666667777
Peak wave directionWWWNWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNWWWWWNWWWNWWWWWWWWWWWSWSSWSSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWWSWWSWWSWWSWWSW
Directional spread (°)33.733.532.931.332.930.831.434.528.834.035.633.030.228.633.026.834.733.730.236.528.334.936.635.433.631.334.235.438.740.333.136.235.737.635.730.037.837.734.635.833.836.233.434.731.427.933.232.9
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