CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Significant wave height
Characteristic wave height, commonly four times the standard deviation of sea-surface elevation or approximately the mean height of the highest one-third of waves.
- Canonical key
significant_wave_height- Parameter family
- Waves
- Scientific category
- Waves
- Canonical unit
- m
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_surface_wave_significant_height
- Vertical domain
- surface
- Required qualifiers
- spectral/time-domain method; partition=total
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 7
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NOAA NDBC
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- SeaBASS NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
- NASA PO.DAAC NASA JPL / EOSDIS
- Copernicus Marine satellite observations Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch