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2021 wave data from the Townsville wave monitoring site.

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Data Dictionary

Column	Type	Label	Description
Date/Time	timestamp	Date and Time	Date and Time of wave data record.
Hs	numeric	Significant Wave Height	Hs is the significant wave height or Hsig. It's the defined as the average of the highest one-third of wave heights in a wave record. This wave height closely approximates the value a person would visualise if physically looking at the waves, over the same time period of the record.
Hmax	numeric	Highest Single Wave	The height of the the highest single wave within a wave record.
Tz	numeric	Zero Up-Crossing Wave Period	The average of the zero up crossing wave periods in a wave record.
Tp	numeric	Wave Period	The wave period of the waves that are producing the most energy in a wave record.
Peak Direction	numeric	Peak Wave Direction	The direction that the peak waves are coming from, shown in degrees from true north.
SST	numeric	Sea Surface Temperature	The sea surface temperature at the wave monitoring buoy, in degrees Celsius.

Column

Type

Label

Description

Date/Time

timestamp

Date and Time

Date and Time of wave data record.

numeric

Significant Wave Height

Hs is the significant wave height or Hsig. It's the defined as the average of the highest one-third of wave heights in a wave record. This wave height closely approximates the value a person would visualise if physically looking at the waves, over the same time period of the record.

Hmax

numeric

Highest Single Wave

The height of the the highest single wave within a wave record.

numeric

Zero Up-Crossing Wave Period

The average of the zero up crossing wave periods in a wave record.

numeric

Wave Period

The wave period of the waves that are producing the most energy in a wave record.

Peak Direction

numeric

Peak Wave Direction

The direction that the peak waves are coming from, shown in degrees from true north.

SST

numeric

Sea Surface Temperature

The sea surface temperature at the wave monitoring buoy, in degrees Celsius.

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Data last updated	22 April 2025
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Field

Value

Data last updated

22 April 2025

Metadata last updated

22 April 2025

Created

13 May 2021

Format

CSV

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Size

938 KiB

Aligned with default data schema

FALSE

Data Schema

View Schema File

Validation status

success

Validation timestamp

2025-04-21T21:03:15.496760

Align default schema

False

Archiver

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Validation timestamp

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