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Plateau du Four wave buoy daily means for May 2012

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

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,488 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 3 ft (10th–90th percentile 1.4–5.1 ft), while mean peak wave period was 7.2 seconds (10th–90th percentile 4–9.8 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 2.3 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 0.5–8.4 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 7 of 4,464 checked values (0.2%) were excluded by quality control. Across 2 comparable years, mean wave height was above the same-month mean of 3 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 8.3 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

3ft
Mean: 3.2 ft
P10–P90: 1.4 — 5.1 ft
Recorded extremes

0.6 — 9.3 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

7.2secs
P10–P90: 4 — 9.8secs
Recorded extremes

2.3 — 12.2secs

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 2.33kW/m
Mean: 3.63kW/m
P10–P90: 0.45 — 8.35kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.11 — 29.63kW/m

Calculated from significant wave height and energy period.

Typical Observed Wind

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

Available for 0 of 744 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 744 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Mays

Historical baseline from 2,033 observations across 2 years.

Wave Height
3.2ft
0.2ft above mean
Historical mean 2.953ft
Wave Period
7.2s
1.1s below mean
Historical mean 8.3s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

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 hourly observations, use a linked day 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; days run left to right.
Plateau du Four wave buoy daily means May 2012Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)QC rejected2112223555322324QC rejected3343343355233
Mean maximum wave height (ft)83223345788533536115465554577445
Mean peak period (s)778987567994455958666491110899789
Mean average period (s)66557555688434565764558109688768
Mean period Tm02 (s)5544544456643445465444686476556
Mean peak wave directionSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 95%WSWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 97%WSWconcentration 98%WSWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 98%NNEconcentration 89%NEconcentration 57%Wconcentration 52%WNWconcentration 98%Wconcentration 88%SEconcentration 89%SWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 86%Wconcentration 97%Wconcentration 95%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 98%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 100%
Mean directional spread (°)19.721.827.926.820.522.726.024.621.917.817.725.633.228.122.627.426.619.921.326.620.425.219.018.018.721.615.215.018.420.417.9
Mean water temperature(°C)-------------------------------

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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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