Hawaii Buoys and Waverider Gauges
Since the beginning of the 1980's, the
NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) has maintained an
array of environmental buoys in Hawaiian waters. These
instruments record a variety of parameters, such as air and
sea temperature, wind speed and direction, air pressure,
and wave period, height, and spectra. Other agencies, such as the
Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography
at the University of California at San Diego and the
U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers (USACE) have also collected
information on wave characteristics around Hawaii.
The University of Hawaii, Department of Oceanography, maintains
Coastal Wave Measuring Buoys . From this page, use the left frame to
access the corresponding CDIP web page which maintains historic data.
The NODC also has the following data:
- Mokapu Buoy, 8/9/2000 - 7/31/2004, NODC ACCN 0001660
- Waimea Buoy, 12/16/2001 - 7/31/2004, NODC ACCN 0001626
Questions or comments: Mr. Patrick Caldwell,
caldwell@hawaii.edu
Return to NODC Hawaii Liaison home page
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