The significant wave height is generally much lower than that of the North Sea.

Or, for random waves, the significant wave height H at a certain location.

However, in rapidly changing conditions, the disparity between the significant wave height and the largest individual waves might be even larger.

We then have a significant wave height for the wind-sea or for a particular swell.

A significant wave height is also defined similarly, from the wave spectrum, for the different systems that make up the sea.

The value of determines the lifting capacity as a function of which is dependent on the significant wave height.

Just like for all water waves the energy flux is proportional to the significant wave height squared times the group velocity.

The significant wave height H - the mean wave height of the one third highest waves.

The significant wave height was intended to mathematically express the height estimated by a "trained observer".

This implies that one might encounter a wave that is roughly double the significant wave height.

Given the variability of wave size, the largest individual waves are likely to be twice the reported significant wave height for a particular day or storm.

The significant wave height may thus refer to H or H; the difference in magnitude between the two definitions is only a few percent.

In their weather products, they give ocean wave height forecasts in significant wave height.

The wave train is analysed to determine statistics like the significant wave height and period, and wave direction.

In physical oceanography, the significant wave height (SWH or H)

The significant wave height is also the value a "trained observer" (e.g. from a ship's crew) would estimate from visual observation of a sea state.

Significant wave height H, defined in the frequency domain, is used both for measured and forecasted wave variance spectra.

For weather reporting and for scientific analysis of wind wave statistics, their size over a period of time is usually expressed as "significant wave height."

OPC began to produce experimental gridded significant wave height forecasts in 2006, a first step toward digital marine service for high seas and offshore areas.

Significant wave height, scientifically represented as H or H, is an important parameter for the statistical distribution of ocean waves.

Based on the motion of the ship, she estimated significant wave heights at well over one hundred feet, and they were moving as powerfully as a freight train.

A plot of the dynamic factor versus significant wave height for a crane mounted on a semisubmersible and lifting from supply boat is shown above to the right.

During the southern hemisphere winter, intense wave activity circumscribes the pole at around 50 S, with 5 m significant wave heights typical in the southern Indian Ocean.

Results are typically summarized by the significant wave height, which is the average height of the one-third largest waves, and the period and propagation direction of the dominant wave.

When the significant wave height is given in metres, and the wave period in seconds, the result is the wave power in kilowatts (kW) per metre of wavefront length.