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Plateau du Four wave buoy monthly means for 2012

Monthly means from the Plateau du Four wave buoy for 2012, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

17,568 wave-buoy observations covered all 366 days. Typical wave height was 3.4 ft (10th–90th percentile 1.7–8 ft), while mean peak wave period was 8.9 seconds (10th–90th percentile 5–12.2 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 3.7 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 0.9–21.8 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 154 of 52,704 checked values (0.3%) were excluded by quality control.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

3.4ft
Mean: 4.2 ft
P10–P90: 1.7 — 8 ft
Recorded extremes

0.6 — 21.3 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

8.9secs
P10–P90: 5 — 12.2secs
Recorded extremes

2.3 — 21.1secs

Available for 8,771 of 8,784 hourly samples

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 3.68kW/m
Mean: 8.74kW/m
P10–P90: 0.86 — 21.81kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.1 — 206.5kW/m

Calculated from significant wave height and energy period.

Typical Observed Wind

-, -mph
Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 8,784 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 8,784 hourly samples

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Plateau du Four. Use the table on this page for a text version of the same measurements. To open daily observations, use a linked month name in the table.

About Plateau du Four wave buoy

Plateau du Four is a CANDHIS station associated with the SEM-REV offshore test site off Loire-Atlantique. Located near a shallow offshore bank west of Le Croisic, it supplies environmental context for marine-energy research and for an exposed sector between the Loire estuary and southern Brittany.

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

Metrics are rows; months run left to right.
Plateau du Four wave buoy monthly means 2012Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)533535343468
Mean maximum wave height (ft)7458575657812
Mean peak period (s)10101187878991010
Mean average period (s)888667676778
Mean period Tm02 (s)666555555566
Mean peak wave directionWconcentration 92%Wconcentration 82%Wconcentration 91%Wconcentration 74%WSWconcentration 80%WSWconcentration 95%Wconcentration 95%WSWconcentration 92%Wconcentration 81%WSWconcentration 86%WSWconcentration 94%WSWconcentration 96%
Mean directional spread (°)25.824.823.624.822.220.323.021.725.423.323.821.8
Mean water temperature(°C)------------

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Wave metric colour key

Colours move through the scale as each number increases. They do not by themselves mean that conditions are good, safe or suitable for you.

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.

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.

The observation data displayed on this page is from the Cerema CANDHIS coastal wave observatory.

Learn how SurfHog combines, checks and summarizes observations in the data and methodology notes.

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