Albatross Bay
Australia
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
1.0 ft
0.3 m
- Dominant period
- 2.9 s
- Direction
- from SW 220°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period wind chop: 1.0 ft at 2.9 s from the SW. Holding steady over the last 6 hours.
Significant wave height is the average of the biggest third of waves at the buoy. It is not surf height at a beach.
Trend at the buoy
Height at the buoy
- Total (significant height)
Period
- Dominant period
Hourly means of the buoy's readings. Arrows point the way the waves travel.
Model vs the buoy
- Buoy, hourly
- Model, past days
- Model forecast
Over the last day, the model ran 15% high against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 1.4 ft | 2.6 s | SW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 1.4 ft | 2.8 s | WSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 1.4 ft | 2.7 s | WSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 1.4 ft | 2.8 s | WSW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 1.2 ft | 2.6 s | W |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 1.4 ft | 2.7 s | W |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 0.9 ft | 2.4 s | E |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 0.7 ft | 1.8 s | SSE |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (12.750°S, 141.750°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Skardon River Outer1.2 ftLive · 105 km
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the E.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 1.5 ft at 2.9 s on Nov 12.
- Operator
- Queensland Department of Environment and Science/North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation Limited
- Program
- Australian national wave buoy network (AODN)
- Position
- 12.680°S, 141.680°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Australia/Brisbane
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: Data was sourced from Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Licence: CC BY 4.0. Changes: Quiver converts the units (feet, knots, °F) and shows a subset of the published fields. Station page at the source.
Not for navigation. Readings can be late, missing or wrong; check official marine forecasts before going to sea.
Buoy terms
- Significant height
- The average of the biggest third of waves the buoy measured. Sets in the surf zone can be bigger or smaller.
- Dominant period
- Seconds between the waves carrying the most energy. Longer period means more power and more bend around points.
- Swell vs wind waves
- Swell was made by distant wind; wind waves were made nearby. The buoy splits its spectrum at a cutoff period to report each.
- Direction
- Where waves come from, in degrees true. 270° is from the west.
