Draugen
Norway
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
4.4 ft
1.3 m
- Dominant period
- 7.2 s
- Direction
- no direction
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 4.4 ft at 7.2 s. 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 20% high against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 5.5 ft | 8.2 s | N |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 20.2 ft | 11 s | WSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 24.0 ft | 12 s | WSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 10.5 ft | 11 s | W |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 19.7 ft | 12 s | N |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 20.3 ft | 12 s | N |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 11.9 ft | 11 s | NNW |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 9.2 ft | 12 s | NNW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (64.250°N, 7.750°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Norne5.5 ft · 11 sLive · 187 km
- Snorre-B10.4 ft · 8.4 sLive · 422 km
- Visundfeltet13.6 ft · 8.8 sLive · 429 km
- Snorre-A12.8 ft · 18 sLive · 431 km
- Gullfaks-C11.1 ft · 9.1 sLive · 447 km
- Magnus AWS10.2 ftLive · 448 km
Other readings
- Wind
- 13 kt from the N
- Air temperature
- 41°F (5.0°C)
Reported Nov 13, 7:20 AM GMT+1.
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 6.1 ft at 11 s on Nov 12.
- Operator
- Okea ASA
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 64.352°N, 7.779°E
- Type
- Offshore platform
- Local time zone
- Europe/Oslo
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036. Data from Okea ASA. 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.
