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Dataset Title:	Significant Wave Height Timeseries - North Sea - HYPAS UKMO
Institution:	Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Directorate Natural Environment, Marine Forecasting Centre (Dataset ID: hs_TS)
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Variable	Minimum	Maximum
station_id	"KWGS"	"zeebruges"
longitude (degrees_east)	0.083334	8.916668

latitude (degrees_north)	50.75	55.375

time (UTC)	2010-06-16T03:00:00Z	2024-12-31T12:00:00Z

hs (Significant Wave Height, m)	-999.0	6.7

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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
 s {
  station_id {
    String cf_role "timeseries_id";
    String ioos_category "Identifier";
    String List_of_stations "akkaert, birkenfels, blankenberge, blighbankcenter, blighbanknorth, blighbanksouth, bolvanheist, bolvanknokke, borkum, bourrasque, bredene, bremerhaven, cuxhaven, denhelder, depanne, dover, esbjerg, europlatform, helgoland, hoekvanholland, husum, immingham, k13, kilmore, knokke, koksijde, KWGS, lowestoft, middelkerke, mow1, MOW1, newhaven, newport, northshields, ostend, sheerness, thorntonbankcenter, thorntonbanknorth, thorntonbanksouth, trapegeer, TSS1, TSS2, TSS3, TSS4, TSS5, TSS6, vlissingen, wandelaar, westhinder, WZ-buoy, wzbuoy, zeebruges";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float32 actual_range 0.083334, 8.916668;
    String axis "X";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float32 actual_range 50.75, 55.375;
    String axis "Y";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
  }
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 1.2766572e+9, 1.7356464e+9;
    String axis "T";
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Time";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  hs {
    Float32 actual_range -999.0, 6.7;
    String definition "Hm0=4.0 sqrt(m0)";
    String ioos_category "Surface Waves";
    String long_name "Significant Wave Height";
    String reference "Guide to Wave Analysis and Forecasting, World Meteorological Organization, 1988, second ed., WMO-No. 702, p12. https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=3110";
    String units "m";
  }
 }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String cdm_data_type "TimeSeries";
    String cdm_timeseries_variables "station_id";
    String comments "Visit the website of the MFC at http://www.marineforecasts.be";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
    String creation_date "Dataset updated twice daily";
    String creator_name "MFC ODNature RBINS";
    String creator_type "institution";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 8.916668;
    String featureType "TimeSeries";
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 55.375;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min 50.75;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 8.916668;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min 0.083334;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    String history 
"Operational Forecasts based on model HYPAS. For more info on HYPAS, please refer to - GÃ¼nther, H. & W. Rosenthal, 1985. The hybrid parametrical (HYPAS) wave model. In: Ocean wave modelling, Shypasp group. Plenum Press, New York, 211-214. - and - GÃ¼nther, H., W. Rosenthal, T.J. Weare, B.A. Worthington, K. Hasselmann &J.A. Ewing, 1979. A hybrid parametrical wave prediction. Journal of Geophysical Research, 84, 5752-5738.
2024-12-28T09:29:43Z (local files)
2024-12-28T09:29:43Z https://erddap.naturalsciences.be/erddap/tabledap/hs_TS.html";
    String infoUrl "http://www.marineforecasts.be";
    String institution "Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Directorate Natural Environment, Marine Forecasting Centre";
    String keywords "belgian, centre, coastal, data, environment, forecasting, heigth, hs, hypas, marine, sciences, sea, timeseries, ukmo, wave, zone";
    String license 
"This dataset is licensed under a <b>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</b>. <br/>
<a rel=\"license\" href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\"><img alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png\" /></a>

This means you are free to share and adapt the licensed material, but you must give RBINS/MFC appropriate credits, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. In addition, you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 55.375;
    String source "Wave spectrum forecast by HYPAS";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing 50.75;
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v55";
    String summary "Significant Wave Height Timeseries - North Sea - HYPAS wave forecasts. The domain is a stereograhic projection, the x-axis is parallel to phi_0 = 56.787 deg N. The projection ranges from [0.711 W to 4.326W] and [49.904 N to 52.174 N]. The grid has a resolution of 10 km by 10 km. The spectral analysis is provided every 30 minutes. The sea surface is forced by the 6-hourly meteo forecasts provided by the UKMO";
    String time_coverage_end "2024-12-31T12:00:00Z";
    String time_coverage_start "2010-06-16T03:00:00Z";
    String title "Significant Wave Height Timeseries - North Sea - HYPAS UKMO";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting 0.083334;
  }
}

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