1  The local waves

Start by observing a live feed of the waves from the oceanside pier camera:

Oceanside Pier, Northside Surf Report, Live Surf Cam & 16-Day Surf Forecast – Surfline (https://www.surfline.com/surf-report/oceanside-pier-northside/5842041f4e65fad6a7708835)

now look at a mode for waves at https://tinyurl.com/umpa3x53

1. What is the date and time you are doing this exercise?
2. What appears to be the approximate interval between waves from pier camera?
3. What kind of breakers are you seeing?
4. how tall do the waves appear to be
5. using the nullschool model:  where do the waves appear to originate?
6. using the nullschool model:  what is the significant wave height in oceanside?

2 reflection on the wave model

go to https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/primary/waves/overlay=significant_wave_height/orthographic=-178.51,5.05,250

color scale is wave height,  moving lines indicate swell direction

click and drag on the globe to change where you are looking at.  Use center wheel of mouse to zoom in or out

answer the following:

8.  What is the date and time you are doing this assignment?

9.  Where on the planet are the largest waves presently (ocean basin, hemisphere, nearest land mass, approximate lattitude longitude)?

10.  in which of the major wind belts does the swell seem to be originating (Easterlies, westerlies, or trade winds)?  (hint: check https://earth.nullschool.net/  (Links to an external site.)when it’s loaded to look at wind patterns)

go to https://earth.nullschool.net/about.html

and https://www.vos.noaa.gov/MWL/apr_06/waves.shtml

13.  What does significant wave height mean?

14.  is the map you used showing 1 swell or multiple?  how realistic is that choice?

15.  What are the limitations of significant wave height regarding safe operation of ocean vessels?

Response post

Find someone who did this at a different time from yourslef and note some differences