OWP BARD Offshore 1
Germany
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
14.5 ft
4.4 m
- Dominant period
- 9.9 s
- Direction
- from NE 44°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 14.5 ft at 9.9 s from the NE. 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 tracked the buoy within 10%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 14.4 ft | 11 s | NNW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 9.4 ft | 9.5 s | NNW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 9.6 ft | 7.1 s | SW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 14.3 ft | 8.8 s | W |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 11.8 ft | 8.9 s | WNW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 6.8 ft | 7.4 s | NNW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 5.6 ft | 7.8 s | NNW |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 4.3 ft | 8.3 s | N |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (54.250°N, 6.000°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Deutsche Bucht platform17.5 ft · 11 sLive · 14 km
- FINO1 wave buoy14.6 ft · 12 sLive · 55 km
- Alpha Ventus Waverider15.9 ft · 12 sLive · 57 km
- Nordsee One15.1 ft · 11 sLive · 70 km
- Schiermonnikoog Noord12.9 ftLive · 86 km
- Meetboei WEW112.3 ftLive · 86 km
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the N and NW.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 18.1 ft at 12 s on Nov 13.
- Station id
- 6201085
- Operator
- Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency- Dept. Oceanography
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 54.358°N, 5.975°E
- Type
- Offshore platform
- 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.
