Basic Marine Weather
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What’s the Difference?
The “moral of the story”:
•The more descriptors used to describe sea condition, the better.
•Using only two parameters can be disastrously misleading.
•Indicating wind wave height, swell height, as well as period and direction of swell is much more describes the sea condition much more accurately.
•NWS and the research community are working on deploying more “wave spectrum” buoys.