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Plateau du Four wave buoy daily means for Apr 2017

Daily means from the Plateau du Four wave buoy for Apr 2017, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,440 wave-buoy observations covered all 30 days. Typical wave height was 1.9 ft (10th–90th percentile 1–4.7 ft), while mean peak wave period was 7.8 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.1–12.7 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 0.9 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 0.3–10 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 22 of 4,320 checked values (0.5%) were excluded by quality control. Across 7 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 3.8 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 9.2 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

1.9ft
Mean: 2.4 ft
P10–P90: 1 — 4.7 ft
Recorded extremes

0.6 — 9.6 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

7.8secs
P10–P90: 3.1 — 12.7secs
Recorded extremes

2.3 — 18.2secs

Available for 718 of 720 hourly samples

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 0.86kW/m
Mean: 3.02kW/m
P10–P90: 0.26 — 10.01kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.11 — 34.31kW/m

Calculated from significant wave height and energy period.

Typical Observed Wind

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

Available for 0 of 720 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 720 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Aprils

Historical baseline from 10,079 observations across 7 years.

Wave Height
2.4ft
1.4ft below mean
Historical mean 3.839ft
Wave Period
7.8s
1.4s below mean
Historical mean 9.2s
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 Apr 2017Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)86354222222111221233222132212QC rejected
Mean maximum wave height (ft)1295864223332223323443232433238
Mean peak period (s)10101214131313121111107888774345655446449
Mean average period (s)98911107679665565543334444444446
Mean peak wave directionWSWconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 86%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%Wconcentration 95%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 88%WNWconcentration 76%Wconcentration 95%Wconcentration 96%Wconcentration 96%Wconcentration 85%NEconcentration 79%ENEconcentration 98%Econcentration 97%ESEconcentration 49%Nconcentration 53%Econcentration 39%NWconcentration 34%NNEconcentration 99%NNEconcentration 77%WNWconcentration 55%WNWconcentration 90%Sconcentration 66%SWconcentration 93%
Mean directional spread (°)19.518.521.018.321.230.332.127.422.726.828.631.133.830.926.424.529.830.833.335.136.231.034.532.225.532.030.531.525.222.9
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.

Observation data source

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

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