GUIDE WAVE ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING - WMO

TABLE 9.2 (cont.)
Country Source of observations Area covered Time spanned Parameters available
JAPAN (cont.) Visual wave observations, visual and measured North Pacific Ocean 1961 to present Wind speed and direction; wave height, period and
wind observations direction; Marine climatological summaries
NEW ZEALAND Waverider buoy, Maui ‘A’ 39°30'S, 173°20'E 1977 to 1988 Wave spectra (f)
NORWAY Moored buoy data, including directional data ship- 15 buoy and ship locations Variable: late 1949 to Meteorological parameters (including wind), waves
borne recorder (OWS Mike, from 1949) vertical bounded by 56°30'–72°N, present
lasers, microwave radar coastal stations (visual) 2°–30°E
SOUTH PACIFIC Waverider Rarotonga, Cook Is. July 87 – Jan. 91 )
Waverider Tongatapu, Tonga Is. May 87 – July 92 )
Directional Waverider June – Aug. 92 )
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Waverider Efate, Vanuatu Nov. 90 – Feb. 93 )
Directional Waverider Nov. 92 – Feb. 93 ) Wave height, period and energy
Waverider Funafuti, Tuvalu May 90 – April 92 ) Olsen et al. (1991)
Waverider Western Samoa Sept. 89 – July 92 )
Directional Waverider March – June 93 )
Waverider Kadavu, Fiji Jan. 91 – Oct. 93 )
Directional Waverider April – July 94 )
UNITED Visual observations from Voluntary Observing Global Late 19th century to Wind speed and direction; wave and swell height, period,
KINGDOM Ship scheme vessels over whole globe; present direction; air and sea temperature, humidity, visibility, cloud
SBWR observations at standard OWS locations amount and type, atmospheric pressure; R. Shearman (1983)
and light vessels around UK
USA Visual observations from Voluntary Observing Global 1854 to present Wind speed and direction; wave and swell height, period,
Ship scheme vessels over whole globe; OWS direction; air and sea temperature, humidity, visibility, cloud
observations at standard locations amount and type, atmospheric pressure; Slutz et al. (1985)
Moored buoys US coastline (Atlantic, Pacific, 1972 to present Wind speed and direction; wave height, period, and direction;
Gulf of Mexico) 1-D and some 2-D wave spectra; Climate Summaries for
NDBC Buoys and Stations, Update No. 1, 1990, NDBC,
NOAA