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Les Pierres Noires wave buoy observations on Wed, May 9, 2012

Hourly readings from the Les Pierres Noires wave buoy for Wed, May 9, 2012, 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 ft (10th–90th percentile 3.8–6.7 ft), while mean peak wave period was 7.3 seconds (10th–90th percentile 6.7–7.8 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 6.9 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 4–13.8 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 Les Pierres Noires. Use the detailed observations table below for the same data in text form.

About Les Pierres Noires wave buoy

Les Pierres Noires is a CANDHIS directional buoy west of Brittany, maintained through the French national sea-state observatory and its scientific and maritime partners. Its position near the offshore reef and lighthouse represents fully exposed Atlantic conditions approaching the Iroise Sea and western Brittany.

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

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Les Pierres Noires wave buoy hourly observations Wed, May 9, 2012Last observation shown
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Significant wave height (ft)444444444444455555544445565566766656667777777677
Maximum wave height (ft)5667666775668777778665688878101012989810810101011111212101099
Peak period (s)888888777777777777777777678777887788878887777888
Average period (s)666666666666666666667776676667777677666677777777
Mean period Tm02 (s)555555555555555555555555555555555555555555566666
Peak wave directionSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWWSWWSWWSWWSWWSWSWSWSWSWWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSW
Directional spread (°)32.637.237.234.534.131.442.238.937.736.836.536.238.236.338.732.036.437.940.039.633.533.332.131.224.932.829.534.030.824.623.522.728.425.929.523.424.525.026.226.324.327.329.126.724.326.422.424.9
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The observation data displayed on this page is from the Cerema CANDHIS coastal wave observatory.

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