Surf observations (height of breaking surf) based on visual estimates from the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii from 1968-08 to 1998-07 (NCEI Accession 0000165)
Surf observations from the North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii are made on a daily basis by City and County of Honolulu lifeguards as well as local surfers. Although there is uncertainty of rough 20% for any given observations, this set of data captures the general trends and episodic events.
Dataset Citation
- Cite as: Goddard, Larry; Cole, Peter (2001). Surf observations (height of breaking surf) based on visual estimates from the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii from 1968-08 to 1998-07 (NCEI Accession 0000165). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0000165. Accessed [date].
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Time Period | 1968-08-01 to 1998-07-31 |
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West: -158.2
East: -158
South: 21.65
North: 21.7
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Dataset Progress Status | Complete - production of the data has been completed Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility |
Data Update Frequency | As needed |
Supplemental Information | Additional descriptive information about this dataset can be found in the following file: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0000165/data/0-data/nodcmeta/nsoahu_pcc.meta |
Purpose | The observations were gathered into a dataset with the intention of applying statistics to better understand the mean patterns and trends and to document episodic events. |
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