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  2. Wave radar - Wikipedia

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    The result is an accurate representation of the propagating incident wave field that will force ship motions over a 2-3 minute window. The wave processing algorithms also enable real-time calculation of wave field two-dimensional power spectra and significant wave height similar to that provided by a wave buoy.

  3. Sea state - Wikipedia

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    The significant wave height H 1/3 — the mean wave height of the highest third of the waves. The mean wave period, T 1. In addition to the short-term wave statistics presented above, long-term sea state statistics are often given as a joint frequency table of the significant wave height and the mean wave period.

  4. Swell (ocean) - Wikipedia

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    The significant wave height is also the value a "trained observer" (e.g. from a ship's crew) would estimate from visual observation of a sea state. Given the variability of wave height, the largest individual waves are likely to be somewhat less than twice the significant wave height. [2] The phases of an ocean surface wave: 1.

  5. High surf causes flooding, water rescues on SLO County coast

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    The National Weather Service reported “significant wave heights” off the coast of San Luis Obispo on Thursday morning, with a buoy outside of Morro Bay recording wave heights of 23 feet at 17 ...

  6. How a 24-Year-Old Surfer Rode a Wave the Size of 10-Story ...

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    The current record, 86 feet, was set in 2020 by Sebastian Steudtner — who then topped that last year with an unofficial wave height of nearly 94 feet. The 108-foot December wave has not yet been ...

  7. Weather buoy - Wikipedia

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    Hurricane Katrina capsized a 10 m (33 ft) buoy for the first time in the history of the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) on August 28, 2005. [11] On June 13, 2006, drifting buoy 26028 ended its long-term data collection of sea surface temperature after transmitting for 10 years, 4 months, and 16 days, which is the longest known data collection ...

  8. New threat emerges as atmospheric river combines with ... - AOL

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    A historically strong bomb cyclone killed at least two people and caused a mass power outage that could last for days after it slammed the Pacific Northwest and Canada’s British Columbia with ...

  9. Significant wave height - Wikipedia

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    Significant wave height H 1/3, or H s or H sig, as determined in the time domain, directly from the time series of the surface elevation, is defined as the average height of that one-third of the N measured waves having the greatest heights: [5] / = = where H m represents the individual wave heights, sorted into descending order of height as m increases from 1 to N.