Darsser Schwelle1 Buoy
Germany
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
5.3 ft
1.6 m
- Dominant period
- 5.3 s
- Direction
- from WSW 239°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period wind chop: 5.3 ft at 5.3 s from the WSW. Fading over the last 6 hours, down 1.0 ft.
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
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 5.6 ft | 5.2 s | WNW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 4.4 ft | 4.6 s | WNW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 4.0 ft | 4.6 s | SSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 8.5 ft | 6.3 s | SW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 9.2 ft | 6.5 s | WSW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 3.7 ft | 4.4 s | W |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 3.3 ft | 4.4 s | W |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 1.8 ft | 3.8 s | WSW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (54.750°N, 12.750°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- FINO2 Platform6.6 ft · 5.3 sLive · 47 km
- Arkona wave buoy8.7 ft · 6.7 sLive · 78 km
- Fanoebugt Datawell DWR-MkII/MkIII buoy8.0 ft · 5.6 sLive · 294 km
- Sylt10.3 ft · 11 sLive · 296 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 51°F (10.4°C)
Reported Nov 13, 7:30 AM GMT+1.
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 6.3 ft at 5.9 s on Nov 13.
- Station id
- 6600367
- Operator
- Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency- Dept. Oceanography
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 54.687°N, 12.689°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Europe/Berlin
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036. Data from Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency- Dept. Oceanography. 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.
