Wave buoys Observations - Australia - delayed (National Wave Archive)

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Buoys provide integral wave parameters. Buoy data from the following organisations contribute to the National Wave Archive: Manly Hydraulics Laboratory (part of the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), which has assumed function of the former NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH)); Bureau of Meteorology; Western Australia Department of Transport (DOT); the Queensland Department of Environment and Science (DES); the Defence Technology Agency (DTA), New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF); the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), the University of Western Australia (UWA), Deakin University; and the NSW Nearshore Wave Data Program from the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW).

The data (aside from IMOS, the NSW Nearshore Wave Data Program, Deakin University and some of the buoys from UWA) is gathered by the Waverider system developed by the Dutch company, Datawell. Some older wave data were collected using non-directional Waverider buoys. As technology advanced and directional measuring capabilities were developed in wave buoys, wave buoy networks were gradually upgraded to directional Waverider buoys. Therefore, some older datasets do not have directional information whereas newer datasets have directional information.

The data from IMOS, the NSW Nearshore Wave Data Program, Deakin University and some of the buoys from UWA, comes from Spotter Wave Buoys, developed by Sofar Ocean Technologies, which collect data similarly to the Waverider system.

The buoy data from the Manly Hydraulics Laboratory replaces data (has been re-formatted) from the following specific collection - https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/bb7e9d82-3b9c-44c6-8e93-1ee9fd30bf21.

Data and resources

MHL Buoy deployment summaries

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BOM_WAVE_DM_RevAOceanSenseQualityManual.pdf

Bureau of Meteorology Wave Data Quality Manual

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Instrument manuals

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Wave Buoy Operations and Data Management Guidelines Manual

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog (MHL)

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog (BOM)

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog (DoT)

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog (DES)

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog (IMOS New Technology Proving Buoys)

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog (NSW Government)

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog (UWA)

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog (Deakin)

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog (IMOS Coastal Wave Buoys)

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View and download data though the AODN Portal

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aodn:aodn_wave_dm_v2_timeseries_map

Waverider buoys

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aodn:aodn_wave_dm_v2_timeseries_data

This OGC WFS service returns filtered geographic information. The returned data is available in multiple formats including CSV.

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OGC WFS help documentation

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aodn_wave_dm_v2_timeseries_map#url

The ncUrlList is a WFS service that returns a list of URLs matching a query.

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ncUrlList help documentation

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Access to Jupyter notebook to query Cloud Optimised converted dataset

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Website of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) >

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Website of the University of Western Australia (UWA)

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Website of the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)

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Additional information

Date (creation)	2018-12-06
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	continual
Metadata language	en
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show