Wave Period Maps

MDason

Great to see there is some interest in having Significant Wave Period and Peak Period displayed on Windy!

These are the most useful for surfers and better than mean period fields.
They allow the user to much more clearly distinguish between swells and track them over distances.

In the ECMWF paramater list I can see ( https://codes.ecmwf.int/grib/param-db/ ) "Swell Peak Period" and "Wave Peak Period", the former being more useful

O.C

@MDason said in Wave Period Maps:

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@idefix37. This suggestion from @MDason is a great idea. Could these two wave period data be added to the spot picker in place of the swell period that is currently shown?

The wave period maps would be great too, but perhaps the tabular data could be implemented much sooner and easier.

Many thanks again.

idefix37

@O-C
Personally I doubt that many Windy users will be able to understand these 2 parameters. The original question was about a swell period layer.

matthbo

Pushing this old request up again.

Any update on implementing a wave period layer? Should be easy enough, the data is already there, it only has to be visualised in a map overlay?

isaackendall

Oh, I'm glad to see my original post got some attention. Pushing it up for the Dev's attention again. ;-) I am happy to try and explain more about what exactly we surfers are looking for. It seems from the comments above I'm not the only one.

matthbo

Pushing this thread again, still waiting on those wave period layers.

They would be so great to have, any update?

O.C

Hi. There are a lot of different posts on here from surfers all with the same type of requests.

Here is one I suggested in a separate post as I couldn't add it into this one.

https://community.windy.com/topic/39756/better-presentation-of-wave-data?_=1747064073658

@Suty - could you please check out my post, and this one, and push this to the developers. I was looking into creating a Windy Plugin, and the information we would like to see is in the ECMWS model ready to add.

We would all be very grateful :-)

If you have upcoming plans to enhance the wave information please let us know so we can stop hounding you!

Suty

@O-C I will keep the suggestion for upcoming plans, for now there is no plan to handle that, but it can be added in future.

O.C

@Suty - thank you for the update.

Jia Y

@idefix37 Thanks for explaining wave period maps! It's cool to learn how surfers use this data and that the info is already available in the forecast picker. I agree a dedicated layer would be helpful for tracking energy release.

idefix37

@Jia-Y

@Jia-Y said in Wave Period Maps:

a dedicated layer would be helpful for tracking energy release.

It is available as a layer and it is called Wave power.