Wave intelligence
The systems in the sea
A buoy's significant wave height sums everything in the sea: long groundswell from a storm a thousand miles off, a closer swell, the chop of the local wind. Each buoy's measured directional spectrum is partitioned into those systems, which are followed through time, used to place the storms the swells came from, and checked for seas that cross.
- Stations analysed
- 160 of 163
- Newest spectrum
- 48 min ago
- Systems named
- 319
- Swell · wind sea
- 224 · 95
- Seas crossing
- 7 buoys
- Storms, last month
- 196 placed →
- Window
- The last 4 days
- Method
- Reference
Buoys where the two largest systems now meet at 40° or more with comparable energy, in seas of 1.5 m or more: steeper, less regular waves than the height alone suggests.
Each petal is a system, pointing to where it comes from, north up. Its length grows with height (the ring is 4 m); its width is the directional spread. Swell Wind sea Storm placed
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| Station | Crossing | Systems |
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| SW Hawaii - 200 NM SW of Kona 51002 · Hawaii · 48 min ago | 170° apartthe smaller holds 55% of the larger's energy |
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| Port Orford, OR 46015 · Pacific Northwest · 48 min ago | 155° apartthe smaller holds 31% of the larger's energy |
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| Western Hawaii 51003 · Hawaii · 48 min ago | 130° apartthe smaller holds 96% of the larger's energy |
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| SE Hawaii - 200 NM SE of Hilo 51004 · Hawaii · 48 min ago | 110° apartthe smaller holds 41% of the larger's energy |
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| Central Bering Sea, AK Offshore 46035 · Alaska · 48 min ago | 85° apartthe smaller holds 32% of the larger's energy |
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| W Aleutians (Amchitka), AK 46071 · Alaska · 1 h ago | 60° apartthe smaller holds 82% of the larger's energy |
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| West Oregon 46002 · Pacific Northwest · 48 min ago | 40° apartthe smaller holds 76% of the larger's energy |
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