CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Wind-wave significant height
Significant wave height of the wind-sea partition generated by local winds.
- Canonical key
wind_wave_significant_height- Parameter family
- Waves
- Scientific category
- Waves
- Canonical unit
- m
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_surface_wind_wave_significant_height
- Vertical domain
- surface
- Required qualifiers
- partition=wind_wave
- Merge policy
- MERGE
- Mapped sources
- 6
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
- ICOADS NOAA NCEI + international partners
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- Copernicus Marine satellite observations Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch