Tarragona buoy
Spain
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
6.9 ft
2.1 m
- Dominant period
- 7.2 s
- Direction
- from SSW 197°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 6.9 ft at 7.2 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 tracked the buoy within 10%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 5.9 ft | 7.5 s | SW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 3.3 ft | 6.2 s | SSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 3.3 ft | 5.7 s | SW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 3.3 ft | 5.8 s | SSW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 7.1 ft | 6.9 s | SW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 6.6 ft | 7 s | SW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 6.3 ft | 6.5 s | SW |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 4.6 ft | 6.1 s | SW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (40.750°N, 1.500°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Tarragona coastal buoy3.9 ft · 7.8 sLive · 49 km
- Barcelona II coastal buoy5.0 ft · 8.8 sLive · 94 km
- Dragonera buoy9.6 ft · 7.4 sStale · 136 km
- Soller Buoy4.1 ftStale · 137 km
- Valencia buoy5.4 ft · 4.7 sStale · 169 km
- Bahia-De-Palma7.7 ftStale · 169 km
Other readings
- Wind
- 15 kt from the W
- Air temperature
- 68°F (20.0°C)
- Pressure
- 1006.1 hPa
Reported Nov 13, 9:00 AM GMT+1.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the S.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 7.7 ft at 7.6 s on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 6100280
- Operator
- Puertos del Estado
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 40.686°N, 1.465°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.
