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, the U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers (USACE), and the Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii have also collected information on wave characteristics around Hawaii. All the non-NDBC data real-time and historic data are avalable from CDIP.


USACE Wave Information Studies hindcast data provides wave model estimates at discrete locations for 1981-2004.


Questions or comments: Mr. Patrick Caldwell, caldwell@hawaii.edu


Return to NODC Hawaii Liaison home page


RETURN to SOEST home page Return to SOEST home page.

RETURN to NODC home page Return to NODC home page.

RETURN to NCDDC home page Return to NCDDC home page.