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What source data is used to construct the buoy forecasts?

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What source data is used to construct the buoy forecasts?

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Stormsurf buoy forecasts provide you with the most detailed and accurate swell and surf forecasts available. To accomplish this, we use site specific bulletins from the regional runs of the operational NOAA Wavewatch III wavemodel. The advantage of these bulletins is they detail the swell height, period, and direction for each individual swell converging at predefined locations across the globe for up to 6 different swells. The downside is they don’t provide as much global coverage as the other major option: GRIB data. But GRIB data suffers in that it only provides information about the dominant ‘swell’. If the dominant ‘swell’ is a windswell, even though smaller but more energetic secondary groundswell is present, the GRIB data will not recognize the groundswell. The paradox is that often the smaller but more energetic groundswell will produce larger waves. From a surfing perspective, period is more a determiner of wave size than swell height. It is for this reason that we felt compel

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