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NOTICE: Due to scheduled maintenance of our backup supercomputer, there will be no web site updates to our model graphics pages from Monday 12 August through Friday 16 August. The production models are running normally on our primary supercomputer and our production FTP server and NOMADS data server are being updated. The only impact is to our post-processed graphical products displayed from this server. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Some WW3 graphics may be found on the NCO Model Guidance site
Select Model Type of WW3 and choose a Model Area.

About this product:

The significant wave height is a measure for the wave height, and closely corresponds to what a trained observer would consider to be the mean wave height. Note that the highest wave height of an individual wave will be significantly larger.

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