Gladstone
Australia
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
1.4 ft
0.4 m
- Dominant period
- 2.8 s
- Direction
- from NNE 24°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period wind chop: 1.4 ft at 2.8 s from the NNE. 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 27% low against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 1.2 ft | 3.2 s | NNE |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 1.6 ft | 3.4 s | NNE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 2.0 ft | 4 s | N |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 1.7 ft | 3.8 s | N |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 1.6 ft | 4.5 s | N |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 1.8 ft | 3.9 s | E |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 1.6 ft | 4.6 s | ENE |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 1.5 ft | 5.7 s | ENE |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (24.000°S, 151.500°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the NE and N.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 2.3 ft at 4 s on Nov 12.
- Operator
- Queensland Department of Environment and Science/Gladstone Ports Corporation
- Program
- Australian national wave buoy network (AODN)
- Position
- 23.900°S, 151.500°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.
