Barcelona II coastal buoy
Spain
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
5.0 ft
1.5 m
- Dominant period
- 8.8 s
- Direction
- from SSW 208°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 5.0 ft at 8.8 s from the SSW. 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 2 days, the model ran 31% high against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 5.4 ft | 8.1 s | SSW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 3.4 ft | 6.5 s | SSE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 3.7 ft | 6.7 s | SSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 3.1 ft | 5.6 s | SSW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 6.2 ft | 7.4 s | SSW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 6.4 ft | 7.5 s | SSW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 4.6 ft | 6.6 s | SSW |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 4.7 ft | 6.6 s | SSW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (41.250°N, 2.250°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Tarragona coastal buoy3.9 ft · 7.8 sLive · 90 km
- Tarragona buoy6.9 ft · 7.2 sLive · 94 km
- Cabo Begur buoy8.9 ft · 8.6 sLive · 136 km
- Soller Buoy4.1 ftStale · 167 km
- Dragonera buoy9.6 ft · 7.4 sStale · 196 km
- Bahia-De-Palma7.7 ftStale · 207 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 65°F (18.3°C)
Reported Nov 13, 8:00 AM GMT+1.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the SW and S.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 5.2 ft at 8 s on Nov 13.
- Operator
- Puertos del Estado
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 41.324°N, 2.207°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Europe/Madrid
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036. Data from Puertos del Estado. Licence: Copernicus Marine Service licence. Changes: Quiver converts the units (feet, knots, °F) and shows a subset of the published fields.
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.
