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HSE

Health & Safety


Executive

Wind and wave frequency distributions


for sites around the British Isles

Prepared by Fugro GEOS


for the Health and Safety Executive

OFFSHORE TECHNOLOGY REPORT

2001/030

HSE

Health & Safety


Executive

Wind and wave frequency distributions


for sites around the British Isles

Fugro GEOS
Southampton Oceanography Centre
Empress Dock
Southampton
S014 32H
United Kingdom

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.............................................................................................. 1
SUMMARY ................................................................................................................. 2
1

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 4
1.1
USE OF THIS REPORT....................................................................... 4
1.2
DATA SOURCE ................................................................................... 4
1.3
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE WIND AND WAVE CLIMATE
AROUND THE BRITISH ISLES............................................................ 7

GLOSSARY OF TERMS ................................................................................. 10


2.1
WIND PARAMETERS.......................................................................... 10
2.2
WAVE PARAMETERS......................................................................... 10

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS AND ROSES ................................................ 13


3.1
PERCENTAGE EXCEEDENCE DISTRIBUTIONS............................... 13
3.2
WIND AND WAVE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS AND
ROSES BY DIRECTION ...................................................................... 15
3.3
WIND SPEED AND WAVE HEIGHT FREQUENCY
DISTRIBUTIONS.................................................................................. 19
3.4
WAVE HEIGHT AND WAVE PERIOD FREQUENCY
DISTRIBUTIONS.................................................................................. 21

BEAUFORT SCALE ........................................................................................ 23

REFERENCES ................................................................................................ 24

TABLES AND FIGURES

Table 1 NEXT Model Grid Points ...............................................................................6


Table 2 NEXT Validation; Data Sources and Availability............................................7
Table 3 NEXT Validation; Summary of Biases in NEXT Hs........................................7
Table 4 Wind and Wave Characteristics around the British Isles ...............................8
Table 5 Average Monthly and Annual Percentage Exceedence Distributions of Wind
Speed .........................................................................................................14
Table 6 Average Monthly and Annual Percentage Exceedence Distributions of Wave
Height .........................................................................................................14
Table 7 Beaufort Scale ............................................................................................23

Figure 1 Chart Showing Location of NEXT Grid Points and Sub-regions....................3


Figure 2 Marginal Distributions of Spectral Peak Period Around the British Isles........9
Figure 3 Average Annual Joint Frequency Distribution of Wind Speed & Direction...17
Figure 4 Average Annual Wind Speed & Direction Rose ..........................................17
Figure 5 Average Annual Joint Frequency Distribution of Wave Height & Direction..18
Figure 6 Average Annual Wave Height & Direction Rose .........................................18
Figure 7 Average Annual Joint Frequency Distribution of Wave Height & Wind Speed
....................................................................................................................20
Figure 8 Average Annual Joint Frequency Distribution of Wave Height & Peak Period
....................................................................................................................22

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Health & Safety Executive would like to acknowledge the support of the following
NEXT User Group participants:











BP/Amoco Exploration.
Conoco Inc.
Exxon Production and Research Co.
Elf Petroland bv.
Marathon Oil Company.
Norsk Hydro.
Rijkswaterstaat.
Statoil.
Shell UK Exploration and Production.
Texaco.

SUMMARY
This report presents wind and wave frequency distributions and roses for forty sites
around the British Isles. These have been produced using hindcast wind and wave
time series data from the NEXT model, for the combined periods January 1977 to
December 1979 and January 1989 to December 1994. The database has been
subdivided into eight areas (Figure 1):









Hebrides Shelf
West Shetland Shelf
Northern North Sea
Central North Sea
Southern North Sea
English Channel
Celtic Sea
Irish Sea

Seven grid points.


Four grid points.
Eight grid points.
Eight grid points.
Six grid points.
Two grid points.
Three grid points.
Two grid points.

For each grid point, the following frequency distributions have been generated:

Average monthly and average annual percentage exceedence distributions of


Mean Wind Speed (Example in Section 3.1:Table 5).
Average monthly and average annual percentage exceedence distributions of
Significant Wave Height (Example in Section 3.1: Table 6).
Average annual joint frequency distribution of Mean Wind Speed and Direction
(Example in Section 3.2: Figure 3).
Average annual Mean Wind Speed and Direction rose (Example in Section 3.2:
Figure 4).
Average annual joint frequency distribution of Significant Wave Height and
Dominant Wave Direction (Example in Section 3.2: Figure 5).
Average annual Significant Wave Height and Dominant Wave Direction rose
(Example in Section 3.2: Figure 6).
Average annual joint frequency distribution of Significant Wave Height and Mean
Wind Speed (Example in Section 3.3: Figure 7).
Average annual joint frequency distribution of Significant Wave Height and Spectral
Peak Period (Example in Section 3.4: Figure 8).

Figure 1 Chart Showing Location of NEXT Grid Points and Sub-regions

14212

14318

Northern
North
Sea

West Shetland Shelf


14533

14376

14703

60N
Hebrides Shelf

14824

15000

14651

14541
14594

15354

15298

14773

15121

14832
15482

14715

15424

14897
14956

15194

15609

15138

15021

Central
North
Sea

15318
15143
15321

55N

15327

15447
15920

Southern
North
Sea

15571

Irish Sea

15631

15512

16230
15697
16462

16694

Celtic Sea
50N

16357

English Channel

16700
16991

10W

5W

5E

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1

USE OF THIS REPORT

This report is designed as a decision making tool, primarily for those persons
concerned with offshore operations. These persons may or may not have had formal
training in meteorology or oceanography, yet may require a readily accessible
independent view of the hindcast weather data for a variety of locations on the UK
continental shelf. The report aims to satisfy an identified need for a document that
could be readily used by operational and managerial personnel in the design, planning,
implementation and verification of:



Logistical Operations - involving Supply Vessels, Helicopters, Cranes etc.


Evacuation, Escape and Rescue arrangements - involving Standby Vessels, Fast
Rescue Craft, Daughter Craft etc.

Notes concerning the use of the Tables and Plots with examples and basic calculations
are given in Section 3.
1.2
1.2.1

DATA SOURCE
The NEXT Model

The North European Storm Study (NESS) was initiated in order to produce a high
quality hindcast database of winds, waves, currents and water levels for the North
European continental shelf (Peters et al., 1993). The wave model made use of a
coarse (150 kilometres) grid for the North Atlantic and a fine (30 kilometres) grid for the
North European shelf. The hydrodynamic model was operated using the coarse grid,
nested within which was a hyperfine grid with a resolution of 10 kilometres. Wind fields
were specified by the UK Meteorological Office (UKMO) and by the Norwegian
Meteorological Institute (NMI). GKSS Forschungszentrum performed the wave
modelling using a version of the spectral wave model, HYPAS. The hydrodynamic
model, System 21, which was used to determine the tide and surge parameters, was
developed by the Danish Hydraulic Institute. In addition, the wave model was run using
a hyperfine (10 kilometres) grid for the Southern North Sea where the sea bed
topography is highly variable. Wave parameters were archived for significant storms
that occurred during the period October 1964 to March 1989.
Advances in wave modelling improved the predictive capabilities considerably.
Shortcomings in the first and second-generation wave models, developed during the
1960s and 1970s, were identified soon after and in some cases during development.
These shortcomings are discussed in detail in the SWAMP (1985) wave-model intercomparison study. The SWAMP study concluded that none of the previously existing
wave models were applicable for all wind fields and that none were reliable during

extreme weather for which forecasts are most often needed. Despite the basic forcing
mechanisms (the source functions) of wave generation being understood since the
1950s, first and second-generation models were always based on ad hoc assumptions
to force the wave spectrum to some pre-conceived shape. The third-generation models
compute the wave spectrum from first principles alone by solving the components of
the source function (WAMDI Group, 1988). The source function for deep water may be
thought of as a superposition of the wind input, non-linear transfer due to wave-wave
resonance and a dissipation term caused by white capping and turbulence. Shallow
water adjustments are also made to take into account loss of energy due to bottom
friction and percolation. The response of the model for arbitrary wind fields is then
determined solely by the structure of these source functions.
The NESS extension (NEXT) was commissioned in order to make use of these
advances in wave model technology and to incorporate the effects of severe storm
events that have occurred since March 1989. As a result a hindcast database was
generated using the NESS grids, a third generation wave model of the WAM type
(WAMDI Group, 1988) and wind fields for the period 1964 to 1995. Wind fields for the
period 1964 to 1989 were produced by the UKMO using a combination of UKMO and
NMI pressure fields. For the six years post-1989, the wind fields were generated by
Oceanweather Inc. (OWI) using pressure fields supplied by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The wave model makes use of the coarse and
fine grids and the hydrodynamic model uses the fine and hyperfine grids. The wave
modelling was performed by Oceanweather Inc.; the hydrodynamic modelling by the
Danish Hydraulic Institute. The study produced wind, wave, current and water level
parameters every hour for the following time periods:

for the winters (October-March) from 10/1964 to 3/1995.


for the summers (April-September) for 1977 - 1979 and 1989 1994.
for significant storms that occurred during the months April - September.

Wind and wave parameters were obtained from the fine grid (30 kilometres) wave
model archive held by Oceanweather Inc. For each model grid point there are a total of
179,308 records. The grid points are given in Table 1.
The benefits accorded by a hindcast model, compared with measurements made using
environmental monitoring systems, are as follows:

Data are available for the entire eastern North Atlantic (grid resolution 150
kilometres) and the North-west European shelf (grid resolution 30 kilometres) within
the area bounded by the model grid, whereas metocean measurements tend to
originate from sites that are clustered around areas of industrial activity.

Continuous data are available for thirty-one winters and nine summers, whereas
data from environmental monitoring systems often contain gaps in the record,
particularly during storm events.

The fine grid resolution increases the likelihood of obtaining data from a source
close to the location of interest.

The data are not affected by uncertainties in instrumentation or in the sampling


scheme used to measure the wind or wave climate.

However, one should bear in mind that the hindcast model data will reflect any
uncertainties in the wind and pressure fields used to drive the model, the model
bathymetry and the components of the numerical wave model itself. Furthermore, the
model will not include geographic features with dimensions less than the grid spacing.
Table 1 NEXT Model Grid Points

1.2.2

NEXT
Grid Point

Latitude

Longitude

NEXT
Grid Point

Latitude

Longitude

14212
14318
14533
14376
14703
14824
15000
14651
14541
14594
15354
15121
15298
14773
14832
14715
15482
15424
14897
14956

61.507N
61.373N
60.604N
60.513N
60.191N
59.579N
59.399N
59.389N
59.362N
59.300N
58.854N
58.788N
58.546N
58.473N
58.404N
58.378N
57.692N
57.579N
57.398N
57.336N

0.942E
0.670W
2.400W
0.863E
4.226W
4.315W
6.991W
0.713W
1.225E
0.475E
12.218W
7.021W
9.604W
0.008W
0.733W
1.142E
9.799W
8.209W
1.064E
0.362E

15194
15609
15138
15021
15318
15143
15321
15327
15447
15920
15571
15631
15512
15697
16230
16462
16694
16357
16700
16991

56.748N
56.609N
56.361N
56.319N
55.850N
55.565N
55.391N
54.438N
54.332N
53.741N
53.587N
53.529N
53.480N
52.528N
52.503N
51.455N
50.537N
50.413N
49.773N
49.504N

1.583W
7.996W
0.311E
2.064E
0.911W
2.250E
0.263E
2.513E
1.229E
3.805W
1.422E
0.797E
2.405E
2.304E
5.524W
5.986W
6.783W
1.650W
4.657W
8.078W

Validation of the NEXT Model against Measured Data

In May 2000 Fugro GEOS first published the results of a study commissioned by the
Health & Safety Executive which compared measured estimates of Hs with those from
the NEXT numerical model for three areas of the North Sea. Spatial information on the
validity of the model was also provided together with information on the validity of the
NEXT data for the combined period 1977-1979 and 1989-1995. In addition, the report
presents the results of an investigation into changes in the NEXT data that have
occurred over time due to changes in the specification of the wind fields. The data
sources used for the validation study are shown in Table 2.

Table 2 NEXT Validation; Data Sources and Availability


Area

Data Source
Measured

Period of
Simultaneous Data

Southern

K13 & NEXT 15514

28 May 1977-31 Dec 1979 & 1 Apr 1989-31 Mar 1995

Central

Auk & NEXT 15021

1 Jan 1977-31 July 1979 & 1 Apr 1989-31 Mar 1995

Northern

Brent & NEXT 14268


North Cormorant & NEXT 14267

1 Jan 1977-31 Dec 1979


1 Dec 1990-1 Oct 1994

This study has shown significant differences between the measured wave data and the
data from the NEXT model for all three areas considered. Table 3 summarises the
biases revealed by the omni-directional analysis performed using the combined period
1977-79 and 1989-95.
Table 3 NEXT Validation; Summary of Biases in NEXT Hs
Area

Height Band

Combined Period
1977-79 & 1989-95

Southern

Storm Peaks
Higher (3-5m)
Intermediate (1-2.9m)
Lower (<1m)

1.0 m
0.3 m
0.1 m
~zero

Central

Storm Peaks
Higher (5-7.25m)
Intermediate (2-4.9m)
Lower (<2m)

0.7 m
0.2 m
0.1 m
~zero

Northern

Storm Peaks
Higher (6-9m)
Intermediate (2.5-5.9m)
Lower (<2.5m)

0.3 m
0.2 m
0.2 m
0.1 m

The results suggest that there is little difference between NEXT and measured Hs
except during storm conditions. In view of this, the tables and plots presented in this
report have been modified in such a way that wave data that is considered to be
unreliable is no longer available to the user.
1.3

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE WIND AND WAVE CLIMATE AROUND THE


BRITISH ISLES

In this section we briefly discuss some of the more important relationships between
wind and waves. This is simply intended as a general guide to the main processes
responsible and is by no means intended to be an exhaustive study.

The wind is clearly responsible for the generation of most of the surface gravity waves
(wind-waves and swell) which are nearly always present. The wind factors affecting
wave development are wind speed, fetch (the linear distance over which the wind is
blowing over the sea) and duration (the time for which the wind has been blowing over
the fetch).
Wind speed and duration are generally quite independent of location. Fetch, on the
other hand, is very dependent on location. For example, in the semi-enclosed Irish Sea
it is rarely possible to obtain a fetch of any significant distance. The length of fetch is
also strongly influenced by the wind direction, or more importantly, the storm track. For
example, in the North Sea the fetch is quite limited compared to the open North
Atlantic, apart from to the north where it extends into the Norwegian Sea. However, in a
case like the North Sea the effective fetch may be limited, even from the north, by the
location of the storm tracks that mostly pass from west to east throughout the area.
Examples from each of the eight areas selected for this study demonstrate these points
(Table 4). Peak wind speeds are predominantly in the range 28.5 to 32.7
metres/second, (Beaufort Force 11), for all regions around the UK. Peak wave heights,
however, vary considerably from region to region. The peak wave directions are closely
related to the peak wind directions, as expected. The most marked decreases in peak
wave height occur in the southern North Sea and the Irish Sea. This may be due to
reduced fetch in the Irish Sea. However, for the southern North Sea, which in theory
would have a longer potential fetch to the north than the Central and Northern North
Sea, two mechanisms restrict the severity of the wave climate. Firstly, the location of
the storm tracks passing over the area ensures that the winds do not always blow over
the longest available fetch. Secondly, there are further restrictions to wave growth
imposed by the complex shallow water bathymetry. The highest peak wave heights
generally exist to the west of the UK where the dominant winds blow uninterrupted
across hundreds of miles of the North Atlantic and where there is effectively no fetch
limitation and wave growth is therefore duration limited.
Table 4 Wind and Wave Characteristics around the British Isles
Region

Grid
Point

Most Likely
Wind Direction

Peak Wind
Speed
(m/s)

WSS
NNS
CNS
SNS
EC
CS
IS
H

14533
14541
15138
15512
16357
16991
15920
15298

S & SW
S & SW
SW & W
SW & W
SW & W
SW & W
SW & W
SW & W

32.7-51.5
28.5-32.7
28.5-32.7
28.5-32.7
24.5-28.5
24.5-28.5
28.5-32.7
32.7-51.5

Wind Direction
Most Likely
associated with Wave Direction
Peak Wind Speed

SW & W
N, SW & NW
NW
W
SW & W
S, SW, W & NW
W
SW

SW & W
N&S
N & SW
N&S
SW & W
W & NW
SW & W
SW & W

Peak Wave
Wave Direction
Height
associated with
(m)
Peak Wave Height

15.0-15.5
12.5-13.0
10.0-10.5
7.0-7.5
8.0-8.5
16.0-16.5
6.0-6.5
15.0-15.5

W
N
N
N
SW
SW
W
SW

WSS = West Shetland Shelf; NNS = Northern North Sea; CNS = Central North Sea; SNS = Southern North Sea;
EC = English Channel; CS = Celtic Sea; IS = Irish Sea; H = Hebrides

For convenience, it is common to classify surface waves according to their periods.


Wind-waves typically have periods between 0.2 and 9.0 seconds, swell waves typically
greater than 9.0 seconds (see Glossary). Examination of the marginal distributions of
wave period (see Figure 2) emphasises the conditions in the Irish and Southern North
Sea which are dominated by fetch limited wind-sea. Figure 2 also shows the gradual
progression to longer wave periods in areas like the West Shetland Shelf, Hebrides,
and Celtic Sea where swell provides a much greater contribution to the wave climate.
The progression to shorter periods as we move down the North Sea is also clearly
observed.

Figure 2 Marginal Distributions of Spectral Peak Period Around the British Isles
25000

20000

Number of Observations

NNS
CNS

15000

SNS
EC
CS
IS

10000

H
WSS

5000

19~20

17~18

15~16

13~14

11~12

9~10

7~8

5~6

3~4

1~2

Spectral Peak Period (seconds)

NNS = Northern North Sea; CNS = Central North Sea; SNS = Southern North Sea; EC = English Channel;
CS = Celtic Sea; IS = Irish Sea; H = Hebrides; WSS = West Shetland Shelf

2. GLOSSARY OF TERMS
2.1

WIND PARAMETERS

Low-level winds directly over the sea surface are considered to exist in a region
characterised as having relatively constant stress at the air-sea interface. Above the
surface boundary layer is the Ekman layer, where the additional forces of Coriolis
force, pressure gradient force, viscous stress and convectively driven mixing are
considered important. Finally, above the Ekman region, geostrophic winds are
considered to exist which result from considering the balance between pressure
gradient forces and Coriolis force for synoptic scale systems. The NEXT hindcast
model provides estimates of low-level winds within the surface boundary layer. The
wind direction in the surface boundary layer is not considered to vary with height.
However, the wind speed does vary with height and is best described in terms of a
logarithmic vertical profile. It is now the accepted standard for all wind speed
observations to be adjusted to represent the flow at 10 metres above sea or effective
ground level.
Mean Wind Direction: WD
The direction, clockwise from true north, from which the wind is blowing (units in
degrees). The 1-hour average direction of the wind at a height of 19.5 metres above
sea level.
Mean Wind Speed: WS
The 1-hour average speed of the wind at a height of 10 metres above sea level (units
in metres/second).
2.2

WAVE PARAMETERS

The surface elevation at any one point, for a period of time, of an irregular sea surface
can be regarded as a superposition of many simple wave trains with different
amplitudes, periods, or frequencies, and wavelengths. Spectral analysis consists of
finding the amplitudes and phases of these wavelets as a function of frequency. The
distribution of the wave energy (proportional to the wave amplitude squared) of these
wavelets as a function of the frequency is called the wave energy spectrum. Peaks in
the wave energy correspond to the dominant wave frequencies. Parameters that
represent different aspects of the sea surface over a discrete period of time may then
be estimated from the wave spectrum.

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The total wave spectrum contains energy from two types of wave train; wind-sea and
swell. Wind-waves are locally generated waves. They have a wide range of directions
of propagation and therefore the sea surface is highly irregular. They typically have
wavelengths up to 130 metres and periods between 0.2 and 9 seconds. Swell is
formed elsewhere with a narrow directional range and is therefore far more regular
than wind-waves. Swell typically has wavelengths measured in hundreds of metres and
periods greater than 9 seconds. Because longer wavelengths travel faster than shorter
ones, the wavelengths and periods of swell gradually increase with time and distance
from the source; consequently their amplitudes are also reduced by spreading and by
friction. Therefore, swell waves are usually linear, coherent, small-amplitude waves
with longer periods than wind-waves. It should be noted that the ranges of the periods
of wind-waves and swell overlap considerably. Wind-waves can have periods of up to
15 seconds or so if the wind speed is very high, whereas swell with periods of only a
few seconds is possible.
Spectral Peak Period: TP
The spectral peak period is the reciprocal of peak frequency, in seconds. The peak
frequency is the frequency of the total wave spectrum at which the wave energy is at a
maximum.
Significant Wave Height: HSIG
Because of the variety of wave trains usually present in most sea states it is common
to use a descriptive characteristic called the significant wave height (units in metres).
The significant wave height is approximately four times the square root of the total
variance of the wave spectrum. This is equivalent to the mean height of the highest one
third of the waves. Thus, the significant wave height, which is a measure of the total
energy in the wave spectrum, provides a quantified, or measured, definition of the sea
state. As such it includes the effect of both wind-waves and swell.
Dominant Wave Direction: DMDIR(FROM)
The direction, clockwise from true north, from which the waves are travelling (units in
degrees). The dominant wave direction is the direction associated with the peak of the
total wave spectrum.
Steepness
Steepness (S) is the ratio between wave height (HSIG) and wavelength (). This
equation can also be expressed in terms of the wave period (TP) using the standard

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deep-water wave equations. The term deep here describes the relation between the
water depth and the wavelength. The definition of deep water is a strict one and applies
when the depth of the water is greater than one half of the wavelength.
Cs = (g/2)0.5 = gTP/2 = /TP
Where g is the acceleration due to gravity (9.81 metres/second2) and Cs is the phase
speed. Therefore:

= gTP2/2
and
S = HSIG/ = 2HSIG/gTP2
The steepness of waves determines the force upon fixed or floating structures,
influences the behaviour of floating structures and is related to wave breaking.

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3. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS AND ROSES


3.1

PERCENTAGE EXCEEDENCE DISTRIBUTIONS

These tables are created by classifying the data, for individual months and for the
whole year, using suitable intervals of wind speed or wave height and then producing a
cumulative distribution of occurrences. The results are expressed as percentages, that
is the percentage exceedence of the given speed or height. The percentage
exceedence table may therefore be used to determine the proportion of time the wind
speed or wave height exceeded any given value.
Example 1
Table 5 presents percentage exceedence distributions for grid point 14318 on the West
Shetland Shelf. The distribution for January (31 days 24 hours = 744 hours) shows
that for 2.66 % of the month, (that is 744 (2.66/100) = 19.79 hours), the Mean Wind
Speed was on average greater than or equal to 20.8 metres/second (or 41 knots, or
Beaufort Force 9).
Example 2
Likewise, Table 6 shows for the same grid point that for 23.06% of January (744
(23.06/100) = 171.57 hours) the Significant Wave Height was on average greater than
or equal to 5.5 metres. Note that an interval of 0.5 metres is used up to a value
equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case 8.5 metres. Thereafter, all higher
wave heights are in a single bin, in this case 8.5 to 14.5 metres (shaded values). These
higher values have been highlighted to indicate that, although the data exists within the
bounds indicated, they are not considered sufficiently representative of actual storm
conditions to be used with confidence.
The monthly mean Mean Wind Speed (metres/second) and monthly mean Significant
Wave Height (metres) are also shown in the respective tables.

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Table 5 Average Monthly and Annual Percentage Exceedence Distributions of Wind


Speed
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98 100.00 99.97
99.99
99.97
99.91
99.99 100.00 99.97 100.00 100.00 99.98
98.51
97.41
96.95
97.13
92.96
95.37
91.96
92.13
96.87
97.43
98.66
99.09
96.19
93.81
89.98
91.34
83.54
70.66
75.85
67.76
70.60
83.47
87.15
91.51
93.77
83.23
80.60
73.54
74.01
58.33
42.35
39.20
32.27
41.77
57.33
66.84
72.27
80.20
59.82
58.32
51.99
49.76
30.18
16.13
10.91
8.83
12.92
28.36
39.92
48.12
56.77
34.27
33.91
28.78
24.05
7.71
3.42
1.84
1.20
1.99
11.76
17.90
23.36
28.54
15.31
13.36
9.01
7.93
1.03
0.28
0.11
0.06
0.28
4.23
5.15
6.88
8.72
4.74
2.66
1.14
1.05
0.15
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.85
0.96
0.86
2.08
0.81
0.49
0.15
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.11
0.21
0.02
0.48
0.13
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.10
0.02
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.01
12.03
11.19
10.95
8.98
7.62
7.48
6.93
7.43
9.17
10.12
10.83
11.64
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Table 6 Average Monthly and Annual Percentage Exceedence Distributions of Wave


Height
m
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
0.0
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
0.5
100.00 100.00 100.00
99.92
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
1.0
100.00
99.03
98.82
98.18
88.20
90.63
78.28
85.66
94.54
99.46
99.66
100.00
1.5
99.42
94.22
97.94
84.09
58.19
52.41
43.02
51.27
77.36
88.96
95.09
99.70
2.0
96.25
87.36
92.65
63.23
34.08
22.96
19.12
28.94
54.98
73.80
85.37
94.80
2.5
86.70
76.99
80.24
45.13
19.64
9.52
7.41
14.42
39.10
55.27
69.74
83.84
3.0
73.49
62.80
66.79
29.39
10.95
4.91
2.58
6.27
25.56
38.90
52.48
67.88
3.5
60.65
48.81
50.57
17.92
6.30
2.47
1.02
2.08
18.13
27.19
39.41
52.61
4.0
49.31
38.43
37.53
9.84
3.79
0.94
0.39
0.61
12.50
20.15
28.77
39.35
4.5
38.42
29.90
27.71
5.84
2.38
0.15
0.12
0.30
9.38
14.63
19.69
28.73
5.0
29.95
23.15
19.24
3.64
1.42
0.00
0.03
0.22
6.70
9.87
13.19
19.76
5.5
23.06
16.95
12.95
1.88
1.09
0.00
0.00
0.19
4.63
6.60
8.90
13.96
6.0
16.36
11.68
8.13
1.24
0.67
0.00
0.00
0.16
3.18
4.33
6.17
10.71
6.5
12.04
8.75
5.50
0.94
0.24
0.00
0.00
0.12
2.31
3.35
4.06
7.95
7.0
9.03
5.90
3.66
0.76
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.06
1.99
2.81
2.81
5.85
7.5
6.96
3.90
2.45
0.60
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.65
1.94
2.31
4.15
8.0
5.48
2.78
2.02
0.40
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.33
1.51
1.70
2.94
8.5*
3.90
2.11
1.46
0.31
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.94
1.03
1.19
2.09
14.5
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.36
3.83
3.80
2.57
1.88
1.67
1.52
1.70
2.53
3.01
3.41
3.94
* Note that for all Significant Wave Height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the
1% exceedence level, in this case 8.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case
8.5m to 14.5m.

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Year
100.00
99.99
94.32
78.36
62.67
48.87
36.72
27.18
20.07
14.72
10.55
7.48
5.20
3.75
2.74
2.00
1.51
1.08
0.00
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3.2

WIND AND WAVE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS AND ROSES BY


DIRECTION

Average annual wind and wave frequency distributions and roses have been derived
by sorting wind speed and wave height into eight directional sectors centred on the
cardinal points of the compass. The sector boundaries (relative to true north) are as
follows:
N
NE
E
SE

337.50 to 22.49
22.50 to 67.49
67.50 to 112.49
112.50 to 157.49

S
SW
W
NW

157.50 to 202.49
202.50 to 247.49
247.50 to 292.49
292.50 to 337.49

The frequency distributions show the joint frequency of occurrence of Mean Wind
Speed and Mean Wind Direction (Figure 3) or Significant Wave Height and Dominant
Wave Direction (Figure 5). The roses show the percentage frequency of occurrence by
direction (Figure 4 and Figure 6 respectively). The irregular wind speed intervals
selected correspond to the Beaufort Scale (See Section 4).
Example 3
Figure 3 shows that for grid point 14318 on the West Shetland Shelf there were 2030
occurrences of wind speed in the range 8.0 10.8 metres/second from the southeast
and that the total number of occurrences was 78843. That is (2030/78843) 100 =
2.57 % and it is this value that is shown on the wind rose in Figure 4. Assuming there
are 365.25 24 = 8766 hours in an average year then winds with a strength equivalent
to Beaufort Force 5 may be expected from the southeast for (2.57/100) 8766 =
225.29 hours during an average year.
The column CFD in Figure 3 presents the cumulative frequency distribution of Mean
Wind Speed from all directions. The cumulative frequency distribution shows the
cumulative number of occurrences when the wind speed was greater than or equal to a
given value.
Example 4
Likewise, Figure 5 shows that there were 1043 occurrences when the Significant Wave
Height was between 1.5 and 2.0 metres when the Dominant Wave Direction was from
the south. That is (1043/78843) 100 = 1.32% of the total occurrences and this value
is shown on the wave rose in Figure 6. The column CFD in Figure 5 presents the
cumulative frequency distribution of Significant Wave Height from all directions. The
cumulative frequency distribution shows the cumulative number of occurrences when
the Significant Wave Height was greater than or equal to a given value.

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Note that, an interval of 0.5 metres is used up to a value equivalent to the 1%


exceedence level, in this case 8.5 metres. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are in a
single bin, in this case 8.5 to 14.5 metres. These higher values have been highlighted
to indicate that, although the data exists within the bounds indicated, they are not
considered sufficiently representative of actual storm conditions to be used with
confidence.

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Figure 3 Average Annual Joint Frequency Distribution of Wind Speed & Direction

Figure 4 Average Annual Wind Speed & Direction Rose

17

Figure 5 Average Annual Joint Frequency Distribution of Wave Height & Direction

Figure 6 Average Annual Wave Height & Direction Rose

18

3.3

WIND SPEED AND WAVE HEIGHT FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS

The average annual Mean Wind Speed and Significant Wave Height frequency
distributions show the joint frequency of occurrence of wind speed and wave height for
an average year. The Total column along the top of the table shows the number of
observations in each Mean Wind Speed interval. Likewise, the Total column down the
right hand side of the table shows the number of observations in each Significant Wave
Height interval.
Example 5
Figure 7 shows that for grid point 14318 on the West Shetland Shelf there were 1289
occurrences when the wind speed was in the range 8.0 - 10.8 metres/second and the
wave height was between 3.5 and 4.0 metres. 1289 observations 1.6% (1289/78843
100) of the total number of observations.
Example 6
Figure 7 shows that there were a total of 12373 occurrences when the wave height was
between 1.5 and 2.0 metres (irrespective of wind speed). 12373 observations 15.7%
(12373/78843 100) of the total number of observations.
Example 7
Figure 7 shows that there were a total of 20146 occurrences when the wind speed was
between 8.0 and 10.8 metres/second (irrespective of wave height). 20146 observations
25.6% (20146/78843 100) of the total number of observations.
Note that, an interval of 0.5 metres is used up to a value equivalent to the 1%
exceedence level, in this case 8.5 metres. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are in a
single bin, in this case 8.5 to 14.5 metres. These higher values have been highlighted
to indicate that although the data exists within the bounds indicated, they are not
considered sufficiently representative of actual storm conditions to be used with
confidence.

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Figure 7 Average Annual Joint Frequency Distribution of Wave Height & Wind Speed

20

3.4

WAVE HEIGHT AND WAVE PERIOD FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS

The Significant Wave Height (HSIG) and Spectral Peak Period (TP) frequency
distributions show the joint frequency of occurrence of wave height and period for an
average year.
Example 8
Figure 8 shows that for grid point 14318 on the West Shetland Shelf there are 593
occurrences when the wave height was between 4.0 and 4.5 metres and the wave
period was between 11.0 and 12.0 seconds.
Example 9
Figure 8 presents lines of constant steepness (or relative height) which have been
calculated using the following relationship relating wave height and period:
Steepness = (2HSIG)/(9.81TP2)
For instance, a wave height of 5 metres with an associated wave period of 10 seconds
would have a steepness of 0.032, that is 1/31.23.
The Steepness may also be defined in terms of wave height and wavelength () as
follows:
Steepness = HSIG/
Note that, an interval of 0.5 metres is used up to a value equivalent to the 1%
exceedence level, in this case 8.5 metres. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are in a
single bin, in this case 8.5 to 14.5 metres. These higher values have been highlighted
to indicate that, although the data exists within the bounds indicated, they are not
considered sufficiently representative of actual storm conditions to be used with
confidence.

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Figure 8 Average Annual Joint Frequency Distribution of Wave Height & Peak Period

22

4. BEAUFORT SCALE
The Beaufort Force is a measure of the effect of the wind on the sea surface.
Equivalent wind speeds may be derived using the Beaufort Scale. The following table,
reproduced from the Observers Handbook (Meteorological Office, 1982), presents
equivalent mean wind speeds at the standard height of 10 metres above ground level.

Table 7 Beaufort Scale


Equivalent Speed at 10 metres Above Ground Level
Beaufort Force

Description

Mean

0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

0
2
5
9
13
19
24
30
37
44
52
60
-

Knots
Limits

<1
1-3
4- 6
7-10
11-16
17-21
22-27
28-33
34-40
41-47
48-55
56-63
64

Miles per Hour


Mean
Limits

0
2
5
10
15
21
28
35
42
50
59
68
-

<1
1-3
4-7
8-12
13-18
19-24
25-31
32-38
39-46
47-54
55-63
64-72
73

23

Metres per Second


Mean
Limits

0.0
0.8
2.4
4.3
6.7
9.3
12.3
15.5
18.9
22.6
26.4
30.5
-

0.0- 0.2
0.3-1.5
1.6-3.3
3.4-5.4
5.5-7.9
8.0-10.7
10.8-13.8
13.9-17.1
17.2-20.7
20.8- 24.4
24.5- 28.4
28.5-32.6
32.7

Calm
Light Air
Light Breeze
Gentle Breeze
Moderate Breeze
Fresh Breeze
Strong Breeze
Near Gale
Gale
Strong Gale
Storm
Violent Storm
Hurricane

5. REFERENCES
Health & Safety Executive.
Comparison of Measured and NEXT Wave Data for Three Areas in the North Sea.
Fugro GEOS Report Ref. No. C50097/2058.
Meteorological Office.
Observers Handbook.
4th Edition, Met. O. 933, Her Majesty's Stationary Office, London, 220 pp, 1982.
Peters, D.J., Shaw, C.J., Grant, C.K., Heideman, J.C. and Szabo, D.
Modelling the North Sea through the North European Storm Study (NESS).
Offshore Technology Conference, Report Number OTC 7130, p 479-493, 1993.
SWAMP Group
Sea Wave Modelling Project (SWAMP): An inter-comparison study of wind wave
prediction models. Part 1: Principal results and conclusions.
Ocean Wave Modelling, Plenum Press, 256 pp, 1985.
WAMDI Group
The WAM Model - a third-generation ocean wave prediction model.
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 18, p 1775-1810, 1988.

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West Shetland Shelf

14318

West Shetland Shelf


14533
14703

60N
14824

55N

50N

10W

5W

5E

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14318


61.373N, 0.670W

NEXT Grid Point 14318


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98 100.00 99.97
99.99
99.97
99.91
99.99 100.00 99.97 100.00 100.00 99.98
98.51
97.41
96.95
97.13
92.96
95.37
91.96
92.13
96.87
97.43
98.66
99.09
96.19
93.81
89.98
91.34
83.54
70.66
75.85
67.76
70.60
83.47
87.15
91.51
93.77
83.23
80.60
73.54
74.01
58.33
42.35
39.20
32.27
41.77
57.33
66.84
72.27
80.20
59.82
58.32
51.99
49.76
30.18
16.13
10.91
8.83
12.92
28.36
39.92
48.12
56.77
34.27
33.91
28.78
24.05
7.71
3.42
1.84
1.20
1.99
11.76
17.90
23.36
28.54
15.31
13.36
9.01
7.93
1.03
0.28
0.11
0.06
0.28
4.23
5.15
6.88
8.72
4.74
2.66
1.14
1.05
0.15
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.85
0.96
0.86
2.08
0.81
0.49
0.15
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.11
0.21
0.02
0.48
0.13
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.10
0.02
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.01
12.03
11.19
10.95
8.98
7.62
7.48
6.93
7.43
9.17
10.12
10.83
11.64
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Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
100.00
1.5
99.42
2.0
96.25
2.5
86.70
3.0
73.49
3.5
60.65
4.0
49.31
4.5
38.42
5.0
29.95
5.5
23.06
6.0
16.36
6.5
12.04
7.0
9.03
7.5
6.96
8.0
5.48
8.5*
3.90
14.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.36

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.03
94.22
87.36
76.99
62.80
48.81
38.43
29.90
23.15
16.95
11.68
8.75
5.90
3.90
2.78
2.11
0.00
3.83

Mar
100.00
100.00
98.82
97.94
92.65
80.24
66.79
50.57
37.53
27.71
19.24
12.95
8.13
5.50
3.66
2.45
2.02
1.46
0.00
3.80

Apr
100.00
99.92
98.18
84.09
63.23
45.13
29.39
17.92
9.84
5.84
3.64
1.88
1.24
0.94
0.76
0.60
0.40
0.31
0.00
2.57

May
100.00
100.00
88.20
58.19
34.08
19.64
10.95
6.30
3.79
2.38
1.42
1.09
0.67
0.24
0.12
0.07
0.04
0.01
0.00
1.88

Jun
100.00
100.00
90.63
52.41
22.96
9.52
4.91
2.47
0.94
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.67

Jul
100.00
100.00
78.28
43.02
19.12
7.41
2.58
1.02
0.39
0.12
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.52

Aug
100.00
100.00
85.66
51.27
28.94
14.42
6.27
2.08
0.61
0.30
0.22
0.19
0.16
0.12
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.70

Sep
100.00
100.00
94.54
77.36
54.98
39.10
25.56
18.13
12.50
9.38
6.70
4.63
3.18
2.31
1.99
1.65
1.33
0.94
0.00
2.53

Oct
100.00
100.00
99.46
88.96
73.80
55.27
38.90
27.19
20.15
14.63
9.87
6.60
4.33
3.35
2.81
1.94
1.51
1.03
0.00
3.01

Nov
100.00
100.00
99.66
95.09
85.37
69.74
52.48
39.41
28.77
19.69
13.19
8.90
6.17
4.06
2.81
2.31
1.70
1.19
0.00
3.41

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.70
94.80
83.84
67.88
52.61
39.35
28.73
19.76
13.96
10.71
7.95
5.85
4.15
2.94
2.09
0.00
3.94

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
8.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 8.5m to 14.5m.

Year
100.00
99.99
94.32
78.36
62.67
48.87
36.72
27.18
20.07
14.72
10.55
7.48
5.20
3.75
2.74
2.00
1.51
1.08
0.00
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Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

NE

15%
10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

NE

30%
20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

14.5

7.5

8.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 14.5m
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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14318: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
1

15

78843

363

387

417

401

327

340

385

371

2991

78828

1139

1164

1163

1156

1477

1381

1372

1363

10215

75837

2236

1770

1467

1810

3027

3229

2381

2540

18460

65622

2400

1699

931

2030

3890

3941

2818

2437

20146

47162

1450

856

363

1689

3195

3484

2169

1739

14945

27016

632

321

67

1069

2037

2164

1227

817

8334

12071

201

65

409

927

757

458

277

3095

3737

45

117

159

91

65

56

538

642

12

14

11

21

85

104

14

19

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
23
28.50
2
32.70
51.50
Total

8490

6269

4411

8694

15055

15405

10910

9609

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 14.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
14.5
20.0
Total

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

78843

604

957

170

209

132

781

1416

205

4474

78838

1953

2085

185

811

753

1858

4012

925

12582

74364

1899

1530

179

953

1043

1995

3683

1091

12373

61782

2020

979

188

891

830

1708

3355

910

10881

49409

1811

528

80

959

784

1598

2922

892

9574

38528

1194

376

23

868

564

1187

2594

720

7526

28954

709

274

22

604

523

1092

1829

553

5606

21428

461

148

440

417

897

1526

322

4219

15822

333

69

416

354

684

1197

231

3285

11603

224

82

373

306

459

800

173

2417

8318

194

52

248

238

370

555

147

1804

5901

89

156

138

291

385

77

1138

4097

48

108

62

216

289

76

800

2959

31

85

41

154

215

57

583

2159

37

57

26

79

146

37

382

1576

25

56

20

48

144

46

339

1194

70

154

59

102

346

124

855

855

7393

6290

13519

25414

6586

78843

11702

7083

856

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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14318: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 14.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

15

2991

10215

18460 20146 14945

8334

3095

538

85

14

78843

101

363

289

79

12

855

71

209

48

25

124

179

46

14.5
8.5
8.0
7.5

43

209

279

45

81

307

334

42

34

146

499

421

34

1138

16

74

300

887

500

25

1804

28

122

563

1290

402

2417

17

103

310

1105

1508

236

3285

16

47

204

690

1765

1375

122

4219

21

77

380

1289

2596

1197

46

5606

71

260

1000

2450

3174

566

7526

146

570

1861

3718

3098

180

9574

265

972

3125

4855

1643

20

10881

392

1966

4807

4827

381

12373

1073

3857

5911

1727

11

12582

1002

2443

1009

11

5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0

2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5

382

6.0

2.5

27

6.5

3.0

339

7.0

3.5

1
1

583

800

4474

0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 14.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

31

805

4704

7618

10461

12951

11764

11036

7597

4394

3246

2908

1/10

976

272

Total Samples 78843

75

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

14.5

1/100
29

224

234

238

72

51

855

66

117

96

42

12

339

15

83

109

96

51

26

382

40

151

177

111

71

28

583

105

238

177

109

103

52

800

36

250

348

152

164

130

47

1138

150

560

406

240

155

191

63

26

1804

36

418

736

415

259

208

244

77

17

2417

8.5
2
8.0

7.5

7.0

6.5

6.0

5.5

5.0
4

209

768

822

505

296

230

287

107

44

13

3285

49

543

959

777

593

401

350

345

137

56

4219

262

1240

1070

985

696

528

341

343

111

11

11

5606

46

875

1497

1178

1326

1117

630

388

361

78

22

7526

10

446

1612

1817

1534

1782

1135

525

405

212

77

11

9574

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0
1
2.5
1

120

1389

1944

2056

2062

1617

943

333

225

132

52

10881

18

1272

2093

2274

2613

1939

1234

595

129

82

108

10

12373

453

2264

2497

2658

2254

1330

683

243

92

37

42

23

12582

25

332

1037

1139

783

678

312

102

34

15

4474

2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5
3

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14318: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14533


60.604N, 2.400W

NEXT Grid Point 14533


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.96
99.92
99.75
99.99 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.97
98.94
96.39
97.65
97.17
93.67
94.29
91.56
94.19
97.39
97.61
98.49
99.19
96.37
95.14
89.87
91.96
83.83
69.82
76.84
68.15
72.65
84.51
86.90
92.58
94.65
83.86
82.88
75.45
76.20
57.71
41.46
38.84
35.88
38.41
55.35
65.86
74.44
82.24
60.32
62.34
51.04
50.43
30.46
16.61
11.85
9.17
13.86
28.53
37.78
47.95
57.27
34.70
34.80
29.16
23.30
8.06
3.87
1.68
1.14
2.90
11.51
16.03
22.98
28.42
15.26
13.51
9.90
6.42
0.93
0.27
0.22
0.01
0.19
3.66
3.91
6.44
9.26
4.54
3.08
1.52
0.67
0.09
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.60
0.58
0.65
1.52
0.73
0.49
0.18
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.08
0.06
0.00
0.15
0.08
0.09
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.01
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
12.32
11.24
10.98
9.00
7.59
7.49
7.03
7.46
9.11
9.88
10.86
11.73
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
99.90
1.5
99.49
2.0
95.19
2.5
83.26
3.0
70.76
3.5
58.10
4.0
47.70
4.5
36.51
5.0
27.20
5.5
21.03
6.0
16.66
6.5
13.21
7.0
10.30
7.5
8.07
8.0
6.31
8.5*
4.87
15.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.30

Feb
100.00
100.00
98.29
91.05
83.06
71.37
55.85
44.23
34.07
24.71
18.57
14.61
11.02
8.43
6.46
4.61
3.10
2.21
0.00
3.64

Mar
100.00
100.00
98.64
96.24
89.33
76.34
63.27
48.01
36.00
26.95
19.45
13.36
8.69
5.48
3.20
2.27
1.60
1.03
0.00
3.71

Apr
100.00
99.92
96.19
81.42
57.96
39.27
26.13
15.52
9.44
5.98
3.88
2.25
1.39
0.77
0.49
0.36
0.23
0.15
0.00
2.46

May
100.00
99.54
86.33
53.79
31.86
17.42
9.49
5.29
3.57
2.61
1.60
1.22
0.85
0.19
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.82

Jun
100.00
100.00
88.52
49.91
23.44
10.22
4.57
2.01
0.63
0.11
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.65

Jul
100.00
99.75
76.08
43.62
21.21
8.07
3.39
1.54
0.51
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.52

Aug
100.00
100.00
84.05
48.54
27.01
14.73
6.74
2.93
1.08
0.28
0.19
0.15
0.12
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.68

Sep
100.00
100.00
93.33
72.08
51.98
37.85
26.33
17.22
11.51
8.26
5.56
3.63
2.62
1.93
1.59
1.37
1.11
0.85
0.00
2.45

Oct
100.00
100.00
98.82
82.81
64.58
47.07
32.12
21.69
14.28
9.19
6.60
4.03
2.52
2.03
1.52
1.14
0.94
0.76
0.00
2.71

Nov
100.00
100.00
99.55
93.98
83.29
66.99
51.39
37.08
25.74
17.52
11.33
7.16
4.69
3.29
2.47
1.85
1.39
0.90
0.00
3.30

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.67
93.80
79.72
62.53
46.86
33.17
25.06
16.86
11.38
7.68
5.21
3.72
2.79
1.96
1.34
0.00
3.71

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
8.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 8.5m to 15.5m.

Year
100.00
99.93
93.26
75.95
60.11
45.91
34.29
24.97
18.08
13.07
9.24
6.54
4.66
3.37
2.47
1.86
1.38
1.01
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

NE

30%
20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

15.5

7.5

8.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m
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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14533: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
3

15

26

78843

343

334

415

364

344

304

367

362

2833

78817

1132

980

1034

1152

1346

1340

1524

1362

9870

75984

2134

1416

1633

2282

3012

3173

2543

2365

18558

66114

2287

1324

996

2106

3493

4495

3134

2361

20196

47556

1398

690

554

1904

2603

3919

2590

1672

15330

27360

630

218

153

1007

1856

2389

1352

848

8453

12030

191

43

15

373

712

928

553

190

3005

3577

53

11

28

103

142

99

65

505

572

18

17

14

58

67

16712

12195

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
3
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8171

5021

4807

9216

13490

9231

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
15.5
20.0
Total

NE

25

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

21

53

78843

437

1298

238

99

85

1229

1713

165

5264

78790

1818

2194

341

245

658

3271

4527

591

13645

73526

2145

1426

221

316

624

3075

4108

572

12487

59881

2024

896

232

383

682

2780

3570

633

11200

47394

1624

498

103

282

580

2278

3196

599

9160

36194

1217

328

43

257

429

1668

2960

448

7350

27034

810

251

28

126

336

1450

2084

341

5426

19684

462

104

13

93

170

1295

1541

276

3954

14258

338

59

55

126

905

1382

145

3019

10304

299

25

34

643

998

119

2128

7285

148

24

487

706

106

1479

5157

122

14

336

471

76

1024

3678

87

210

361

40

708

2654

56

147

238

34

479

1946

38

128

172

36

379

1467

19

69

171

36

295

1088

64

139

504

86

793

793

20110

28723

4305

78843

11708

7131

1230

1869

3767

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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14533: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

26

2833

9870

18558 20196 15330

8453

3005

505

58

78843

110

367

256

46

793

16

85

154

36

295

21

132

186

35

379

41

161

230

35

479

14

80

309

271

29

708

16

159

502

302

38

1024

47

317

716

358

28

1479

31

133

643

1003

287

16

2128

18

67

338

1024

1201

339

27

3019

15.5
8.5
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5

49

162

599

1641

1233

258

3954

16

108

406

1297

2177

1230

191

5426

31

199

823

2341

2881

1017

58

7350

178

451

1549

3445

2915

618

9160

261

943

2722

4666

2477

131

11200

313

1875

4688

4722

882

12487

907

3597

6576

2514

51

1091

2585

1513

51

15

32

4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0

1.5
1.0

24

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

13645
5264
53

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

89

827

4103

7097

10102

12886

11592

10237

8365

5555

3704

2696

1/10

1105

318

160

Total Samples 78843

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

15.5

1/100
15

175

235

233

98

18

19

793

32

123

86

31

14

295

379

8.5

8.0
3

69

144

96

40

14

12

10

128

150

103

50

22

16

479

33

214

186

119

102

38

16

708

10

128

352

151

136

189

45

1024

49

340

405

203

143

228

90

19

1479

18

201

530

405

320

256

206

120

34

38

2128

7.5

7.0

6.5

6.0

5.5

5.0
1

182

596

581

461

388

330

277

131

53

19

3019

45

461

774

697

620

475

382

293

129

51

27

3954

280

1019

900

799

832

711

436

299

108

28

5426

43

943

1327

928

1121

1222

830

521

270

94

41

10

7350

10

563

1376

1425

1280

1741

1277

757

421

189

103

12

9160

4.5

4.0
1
3.5

3.0

2.5
1

193

1467

1684

1821

2074

1849

1033

602

231

160

69

21

1034

1650

1872

2717

2446

1506

830

220

122

39

17

11200

463

2050

2050

2750

3048

1937

736

382

108

51

53

13645

78

325

797

1319

1150

858

397

162

88

12

36

37

5264

17

18

10

2.0
12487

1.5

1.0

0.5
2

53

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14533: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14703


60.191N, 4.226W

NEXT Grid Point 14703


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 99.98
99.99
99.95
99.93
99.87
99.98 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.97
98.64
95.90
97.68
96.62
91.41
92.72
90.35
93.64
95.79
96.62
97.82
99.15
95.52
94.23
88.47
91.48
82.50
67.73
72.25
66.13
74.51
80.91
85.00
91.81
94.91
82.46
81.11
73.15
75.77
56.79
38.03
37.39
36.30
40.01
53.44
63.19
73.04
80.63
59.00
59.97
50.82
52.64
29.20
14.74
10.88
10.37
15.22
28.16
36.88
46.68
54.05
34.06
35.19
26.34
24.68
7.57
3.00
1.88
1.17
3.12
10.79
13.64
20.86
26.60
14.52
13.93
9.82
6.89
1.00
0.22
0.02
0.10
0.52
3.23
3.18
7.13
9.57
4.61
3.75
1.71
0.40
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.07
0.76
0.66
0.71
1.61
0.80
0.57
0.28
0.18
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.17
0.00
0.02
0.06
0.11
0.07
0.00
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.01
0.04
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.01
12.23
11.04
11.07
8.87
7.33
7.29
7.04
7.61
8.91
9.60
10.72
11.54
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
100.00
1.5
99.69
2.0
98.18
2.5
88.51
3.0
74.97
3.5
62.48
4.0
51.81
4.5
42.56
5.0
32.34
5.5
24.76
6.0
19.26
6.5
15.24
7.0
12.48
7.5
10.28
8.0
8.29
8.5*
6.20
15.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.56

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.51
94.09
86.79
77.33
63.95
50.56
40.69
30.69
22.39
17.17
13.41
10.31
8.02
6.31
4.58
3.26
0.00
3.93

Mar
100.00
100.00
98.86
97.56
92.22
81.55
67.97
54.90
41.78
32.48
23.89
17.22
11.61
7.89
5.09
3.32
2.20
1.57
0.00
3.96

Apr
100.00
99.97
98.72
86.69
65.71
46.12
31.06
19.94
11.58
7.43
4.94
3.34
1.95
1.11
0.48
0.29
0.12
0.08
0.00
2.65

May
100.00
100.00
89.18
56.81
34.63
20.87
11.17
6.33
4.38
2.94
2.05
1.20
0.37
0.10
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.90

Jun
100.00
100.00
89.78
55.82
27.47
12.52
5.88
2.07
0.43
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.72

Jul
100.00
100.00
82.90
49.42
23.53
12.00
4.47
1.60
0.34
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.62

Aug
100.00
100.00
87.35
56.45
31.03
17.61
9.84
4.59
2.57
1.20
0.30
0.15
0.13
0.10
0.07
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.81

Sep
100.00
100.00
94.63
78.29
58.36
41.54
28.87
19.20
13.04
8.97
6.47
3.94
2.35
1.77
1.50
1.30
1.02
0.90
0.00
2.57

Oct
100.00
100.00
99.87
89.15
69.97
53.50
38.29
26.76
18.06
12.29
7.96
5.56
3.60
2.44
1.81
1.46
1.14
0.94
0.00
2.92

Nov
100.00
100.00
99.80
96.00
86.67
71.30
56.62
42.78
30.37
20.63
14.40
9.31
5.96
4.26
2.90
1.88
1.33
0.88
0.00
3.49

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
96.39
84.81
70.53
54.15
40.68
31.03
22.42
15.93
10.48
6.85
4.50
3.18
2.46
1.87
0.00
3.99

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
8.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 8.5m to 15.5m.

Year
100.00
100.00
95.01
79.89
64.12
50.51
38.52
28.69
21.24
15.81
11.40
8.19
5.73
4.15
3.06
2.32
1.75
1.30
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Shetland97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14703_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

NE

30%
20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

15.5

7.5

8.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m
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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14703: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

20

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
459

366

434

509

438

402

429

473

3510

78823

1260

1014

1099

1262

1308

1486

1611

1263

10303

75313

1999

1567

1656

2261

2809

3330

2688

2181

18491

65010

1910

1208

1177

2221

3235

4596

3178

2138

19663

46519

1147

677

720

1680

2381

4343

2795

1662

15405

26856

579

214

199

829

1485

2565

1415

528

7814

11451

149

58

42

290

532

1091

636

205

3003

3637

49

26

111

175

115

70

551

634

15

36

72

83

11

18033

12884

3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

7559

5109

5329

9081

12319

8529

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
15.5
20.0
Total

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

78843

297

907

152

48

30

857

1527

117

3935

78841

1407

2011

596

352

265

2672

4267

345

11915

74906

1957

1291

395

493

528

3083

4135

557

12439

62991

1760

968

417

463

473

2691

3397

559

10728

50552

1397

658

262

450

390

2532

3193

569

9451

39824

1015

474

191

436

307

1977

2941

411

7752

30373

852

315

110

399

297

1517

2118

267

5875

22621

502

135

52

244

212

1346

1577

213

4281

16746

313

87

29

186

158

1152

1433

122

3480

12465

241

37

13

91

135

837

1080

96

2530

8985

168

31

14

83

67

613

839

119

1934

6455

104

47

31

504

499

50

1248

4521

75

20

29

306

380

38

863

3273

49

10

187

299

32

580

2410

48

145

212

39

449

1830

17

135

168

31

355

1381

53

303

592

71

1026

1026

10255

6945

20857

28657

3636

78843

2243

3315

2935

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Shetland97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14703_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14703: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

20

3510

10303

18491 19663 15405

7814

3003

551

72

78843

14

158

488

293

62

1026

17

98

194

43

355

31

166

204

41

449

580

15.5
8.5
8.0
7.5

56

237

232

49

113

339

347

53

32

230

525

413

44

1248

15

18

104

485

850

441

15

1934

14

57

205

749

1165

328

2530

12

11

80

451

1375

1335

213

3480

4281

7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5

60

205

793

1837

1274

103

20

112

442

1569

2747

950

35

5875

66

269

1076

2641

3150

545

7752

215

605

1844

3736

2896

155

9451

309

978

3359

4710

1355

17

10728

501

2247

5183

4162

344

12439

1265

3898

5504

1235

11915

11

1106

2091

720

3935

4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

863

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

30

619

3621

6378

10266

13382

11931

10565

8408

5576

3891

2530

1/10

1142

317

177

Total Samples 78843

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

15.5

1/100
40

169

309

278

151

45

49

131

103

41

15

16

32

1026

8.5
355

8.0
7

72

143

116

54

36

20

449

22

131

160

110

110

32

580

21

91

255

175

137

117

52

14

863

44

217

371

155

193

169

87

1248

150

448

392

248

256

220

134

40

44

1934

53

401

542

365

435

293

272

105

41

22

7.5

7.0

6.5

6.0

5.5
1

2530

5.0
4

296

616

660

600

454

364

256

142

65

23

3480

72

647

791

706

631

570

477

270

93

19

4281

4.5

4.0
1

338

1121

944

866

927

823

525

231

76

15

5875

58

1078

1338

1036

1232

1392

886

386

201

112

19

13

7752

11

484

1605

1574

1486

1847

1319

605

318

135

52

11

9451

3.5

3.0

2.5
1

109

1411

1462

1758

2182

2096

1027

407

142

82

38

10728

22

1136

1584

1968

3132

2526

1263

545

114

95

37

12439

400

1765

1642

2697

2909

1555

497

265

89

33

44

10

20

196

598

1196

1042

550

176

71

27

12

34

13

2.0

1.5
11915

1.0
3935

0.5
2

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Shetland97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14703_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14703: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14824


59.579N, 4.315W

NEXT Grid Point 14824


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.98
99.96
99.97
99.98
99.99
99.98 100.00 99.99
98.49
96.23
97.83
95.94
92.14
93.16
92.80
93.92
95.82
97.09
98.35
98.97
95.89
93.75
88.27
91.08
82.78
69.61
74.77
68.61
77.23
81.91
86.73
92.11
94.79
83.44
79.71
73.74
75.53
57.88
38.90
38.41
36.18
41.23
54.72
64.46
75.29
79.35
59.54
59.04
51.58
53.36
29.27
15.54
10.12
11.05
16.31
28.87
37.30
48.90
54.26
34.56
35.62
26.85
26.08
7.85
2.82
0.93
0.84
3.23
11.11
13.98
20.60
26.31
14.64
12.97
9.32
7.26
1.10
0.18
0.03
0.01
0.48
2.98
2.79
5.91
8.27
4.26
3.54
1.35
0.48
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.71
0.60
0.35
1.37
0.71
0.46
0.16
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.11
0.00
0.00
0.09
0.08
0.06
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.01
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.01
12.10
11.06
11.14
8.92
7.42
7.30
7.13
7.73
8.99
9.70
10.78
11.44
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
99.79
1.5
99.34
2.0
96.17
2.5
83.01
3.0
68.45
3.5
56.25
4.0
45.76
4.5
34.40
5.0
26.70
5.5
20.52
6.0
15.63
6.5
12.76
7.0
10.07
7.5
7.77
8.0*
5.92
15.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.23

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.00
92.11
83.62
71.10
57.33
43.81
33.44
24.35
18.25
13.69
10.18
7.63
5.72
3.81
2.83
0.00
3.61

Mar
100.00
100.00
98.63
96.04
89.15
76.29
62.76
49.24
36.72
28.14
20.66
14.13
8.98
6.10
3.96
2.64
1.87
0.00
3.74

Apr
100.00
99.98
97.87
83.85
58.97
42.04
27.01
17.25
10.07
6.84
4.43
2.81
1.45
0.76
0.36
0.22
0.12
0.00
2.52

May
100.00
100.00
85.36
53.75
31.67
17.46
9.74
5.89
3.73
2.52
1.43
0.34
0.09
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.80

Jun
100.00
100.00
87.53
49.41
24.65
11.51
4.74
1.42
0.05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.65

Jul
100.00
99.49
79.50
45.22
20.60
10.37
4.45
1.36
0.15
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.56

Aug
100.00
100.00
86.09
52.35
28.11
16.16
8.78
4.42
2.27
0.84
0.27
0.19
0.07
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.76

Sep
100.00
100.00
93.64
74.60
54.91
38.32
25.76
17.21
11.73
7.79
5.17
3.19
2.01
1.51
1.33
1.13
0.90
0.00
2.46

Oct
100.00
100.00
99.19
84.64
63.73
47.70
32.97
22.63
14.42
9.64
6.47
3.82
2.49
1.81
1.52
1.21
0.97
0.00
2.72

Nov
100.00
100.00
99.41
94.80
82.90
68.86
52.64
37.55
25.79
17.35
11.17
6.67
4.12
2.53
1.85
1.39
0.91
0.00
3.29

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.66
92.22
77.73
61.84
46.36
33.90
24.70
17.31
10.93
6.75
4.63
3.30
2.40
1.67
0.00
3.68

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
8.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 8.0m to 15.0m.

Year
100.00
99.96
93.79
77.04
60.43
46.59
34.61
25.21
18.12
13.02
9.30
6.34
4.29
3.13
2.33
1.71
1.26
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
45%

NW

NE

30%
15%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

15

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 15.0m
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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14824: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
386

384

403

430

453

450

366

357

3229

78834

1124

929

1033

1289

1308

1294

1527

1314

9818

75605

1975

1614

1611

2342

2770

3435

2758

2340

18845

65787

1590

1134

1302

2386

3162

4661

3354

2106

19695

46942

1100

673

723

1663

2296

4588

2964

1698

15705

27247

501

228

273

786

1507

2726

1616

550

8187

11542

143

27

33

227

542

1004

628

193

2797

3355

33

11

15

79

171

116

71

496

558

28

54

62

18363

13340

3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

6858

5001

5380

9138

12129

8634

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 15.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
15.0
20.0
Total

NE

33

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

35

78843

381

1165

138

47

44

1116

1793

181

4865

78808

1737

2104

636

340

373

2647

4905

457

13199

73943

2082

1332

476

428

536

2951

4664

628

13097

60744

1920

738

327

365

448

2385

4040

690

10913

47647

1484

509

251

451

439

2109

3519

688

9450

36734

943

426

172

346

364

1472

3156

529

7408

27284

849

190

98

266

245

1302

2321

322

5593

19876

424

70

22

97

165

1184

1840

219

4021

14283

291

46

25

65

157

772

1446

130

2932

10262

227

37

32

21

58

645

1180

135

2335

7330

141

11

20

474

870

85

1609

4995

73

286

482

62

917

3386

55

172

348

49

631

2469

56

117

280

35

491

1838

21

86

207

35

352

1347

64

131

689

107

995

995

10748

6677

17850

31740

4352

78843

2178

2434

2864

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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14824: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 15.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

3229

9818

18845 19695 15705

8187

2797

496

54

78843

149

473

308

50

995

15

91

200

44

40

178

228

42

491

57

274

263

29

631

13

124

421

331

27

917

43

319

819

397

22

1609

15.0
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5

41

114

606

1172

377

13

2335

11

55

247

1011

1278

317

2932

10

15

124

627

1739

1369

135

4021

27

94

378

1200

2585

1247

62

5593

46

176

800

2310

3199

865

12

7408

136

509

1592

3400

3527

284

9450

304

996

2948

4702

1923

39

10913

489

1812

5170

5078

546

13097

1086

3639

6526

1939

1099

2548

1201

13

4865

25

35

5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

352

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

13199

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 15.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

94

1305

4414

7087

10804

12635

11490

10421

8303

5219

3540

2315

1/10

804

256

149

Total Samples 78843

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

15.0

1/100
1

67

288

322

209

57

23

27

995

10

91

122

88

17

11

13

352

19

135

139

84

63

35

16

491

8.0

7.5

7.0
6

40

218

137

119

71

32

631

20

152

331

140

118

111

39

917

21

85

446

387

193

212

161

86

17

1609

6.5

6.0

5.5
80

273

627

435

309

253

211

79

36

32

2335

316

552

580

418

391

307

240

67

37

15

2932

161

523

791

649

592

438

384

258

138

61

25

4021

14

619

858

968

780

793

671

480

310

73

18

5593

142

1268

1173

1011

1041

1162

874

439

219

67

7408

10

878

1641

1577

1209

1549

1327

648

315

204

68

16

9450

247

1559

1580

1451

1825

2022

1210

569

243

146

43

11

10913

5.0

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.0
2

31

1480

1633

1848

2697

2591

1721

756

191

90

34

15

877

1959

1753

2429

3102

1863

664

351

89

60

35

77

397

684

1105

1248

835

296

120

30

20

26

26

31

13097

13199

1.5

1.0
1

4865

0.5
1

35

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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West Shetland Shelf


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14824: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Northern North Sea

14212

14376

Northern
North
Sea

60N
14651

14541
14594

14773
14832

14715

55N

50N

10W

5W

5E

Grid Point 14212


61.507N, 0.942W

NEXT Grid Point 14212


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98 100.00 99.98
99.96
99.97
99.85 100.00 99.85
99.99 100.00 100.00 99.96
97.77
97.35
97.07
96.26
90.80
92.78
89.44
90.99
96.08
96.92
98.06
98.49
95.14
91.54
87.92
89.71
82.81
71.87
74.21
68.76
72.33
82.61
86.27
89.74
91.91
82.43
79.12
72.54
73.05
59.09
45.77
41.88
34.46
45.64
58.92
68.82
73.35
76.69
60.71
59.03
52.85
51.45
32.00
18.39
13.40
10.11
15.94
30.63
42.98
50.28
56.71
36.06
34.50
30.10
28.58
9.75
3.99
2.08
0.79
2.64
12.19
19.63
24.52
29.26
16.44
14.21
10.44
9.14
2.04
0.42
0.00
0.01
0.31
4.14
5.59
8.33
9.39
5.31
2.97
1.45
1.55
0.19
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.80
1.22
1.33
2.55
1.02
0.72
0.05
0.39
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.14
0.42
0.09
0.42
0.19
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.15
0.03
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.01
12.05
11.23
11.17
9.13
7.79
7.53
7.00
7.65
9.26
10.29
10.97
11.56
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
100.00
1.5
99.22
2.0
95.26
2.5
85.24
3.0
72.74
3.5
59.64
4.0
47.18
4.5
37.49
5.0
29.12
5.5
22.10
6.0
16.11
6.5
11.57
7.0
8.41
7.5
6.69
8.0
5.08
8.5*
3.57
15.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.29

Feb
100.00
100.00
98.73
92.77
85.01
73.81
59.80
48.62
37.51
29.34
22.29
16.33
11.58
8.14
5.75
3.99
2.62
1.98
0.00
3.76

Mar
100.00
100.00
99.07
97.56
91.81
78.91
64.43
50.22
37.56
27.74
18.61
13.03
9.14
5.81
3.94
2.64
1.87
1.54
0.00
3.78

Apr
100.00
99.94
97.48
81.95
61.95
43.88
29.10
17.67
10.05
6.08
3.63
2.36
1.62
1.20
0.93
0.74
0.60
0.42
0.00
2.55

May
100.00
100.00
86.21
59.43
34.82
20.53
10.80
6.36
3.69
2.14
1.20
0.67
0.30
0.19
0.09
0.04
0.03
0.00
0.00
1.89

Jun
100.00
100.00
89.61
50.65
22.99
10.56
5.12
2.22
0.52
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.66

Jul
100.00
100.00
78.59
42.17
17.91
7.07
2.38
0.73
0.21
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.50

Aug
100.00
100.00
85.79
51.78
30.04
14.74
5.87
2.23
0.94
0.34
0.22
0.18
0.12
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.71

Sep
100.00
100.00
93.73
75.97
54.68
39.14
26.20
18.77
12.96
9.09
6.20
4.65
3.44
2.25
1.81
1.48
1.23
0.94
0.00
2.52

Oct
100.00
100.00
98.94
88.15
74.04
54.87
39.27
26.65
19.78
15.19
10.20
7.20
4.78
3.39
2.20
1.76
1.48
1.20
0.00
3.01

Nov
100.00
100.00
99.48
94.88
83.44
68.35
51.57
39.21
29.34
20.46
14.03
9.55
6.57
4.66
3.27
2.55
1.90
1.40
0.00
3.41

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.06
92.91
81.42
65.86
50.57
37.80
28.43
20.58
13.86
10.19
8.15
5.94
4.23
2.78
2.14
0.00
3.89

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
8.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 8.5m to 15.5m.

Year
100.00
99.99
93.92
77.70
61.96
48.09
36.00
26.82
19.73
14.66
10.46
7.46
5.30
3.77
2.68
2.00
1.46
1.10
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

15.5

7.5

8.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m
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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14212: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
9

28

78843

452

524

459

421

512

495

489

449

3801

78815

1248

1288

1037

965

1453

1316

1368

1347

10022

75014

2240

1751

1311

1539

2837

2774

2292

2381

17125

64992

2622

1837

800

1840

3922

3432

2598

2382

19433

47867

1732

1106

284

1495

3650

3509

1967

1727

15470

28434

656

387

42

1066

2525

2138

1155

805

8774

12964

219

119

429

1114

712

494

301

3388

4190

55

123

222

102

99

51

652

802

20

15

58

23

128

150

16

22

14489

10502

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
3
32.70
51.50
Total

9256

7015

3934

7894

16296

9457

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
15.5
20.0
Total

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

78843

859

1006

118

96

376

688

1313

333

4789

78839

2400

1837

165

538

1554

1422

3676

1196

12788

74050

2262

1507

123

584

1775

1807

3189

1165

12412

61262

2281

840

94

489

1827

1377

2956

1071

10935

48850

1800

539

18

534

1749

1309

2517

1068

9534

37915

1125

300

17

361

1450

1054

2049

882

7238

28381

675

220

307

1063

1091

1675

558

5590

21143

445

123

199

840

833

1123

429

3994

15553

289

99

168

859

666

949

278

3309

11559

218

45

175

595

478

636

221

2368

8250

106

63

137

433

378

426

162

1705

5882

92

69

325

267

320

125

1204

4177

25

32

238

211

278

71

857

2973

24

20

128

108

185

69

536

2116

25

28

127

48

138

61

427

1580

38

26

69

38

73

45

289

1153

76

76

231

91

286

104

864

864

3842

13640

11866

21789

7838

78843

12740

6589

539

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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14212: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

28

3801

10022

17125 19433 15470

8774

3388

652

128

16

78843

85

324

315

113

13

864

55

144

72

25

90

231

77

15.5
8.5
8.0
7.5

7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5

5.0
4.5

39

154

272

64

58

307

422

56

536
857

1204

12

31

110

469

541

35

22

74

245

779

560

21

1705

31

136

499

1263

423

2368

11

65

245

968

1746

271

3309

40

163

548

1499

1591

147

130

425

1154

2515

1288

46

72

273

825

2046

3316

700

7238

184

605

1731

3375

3405

232

9534

252

1093

2805

4675

2094

15

547

1859

4287

5046

671

12412

1271

3735

5702

2065

11

12788

20

1437

2259

1054

19

4789

3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5

0.0
0.0

3
12

3.5

0.5

427

31

4.0

1.0

289

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

3994
1

5590

10935

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.5m in 0.5m intervals and 8.5 to 15.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

42

1059

5642

9033

11218

12681

12064

10670

6834

3187

2458

2783

1/10

894

217

Total Samples 78843

56

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

15.5

1/100
1

50

257

295

187

38

26

864

122

99

35

14

289

8.5

8.0
16

203

118

48

32

427

59

261

95

45

37

36

536

189

376

105

74

72

36

857

48

471

317

137

82

95

52

1204

214

747

256

123

156

131

54

15

1705

42

674

762

301

153

158

196

57

23

2368

7.5

7.0

6.5

6.0

5.5

5.0
3

294

1174

805

369

173

137

247

77

19

11

3309

51

853

1144

696

415

225

169

309

94

26

12

3994

12

316

1519

1139

845

555

403

236

370

142

45

5590

66

1156

1827

1123

1070

799

403

314

353

92

24

11

7238

13

513

2280

1701

1437

1502

980

381

306

349

63

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0
9534

2.5
2

142

2012

2126

1879

1719

1429

837

286

231

192

71

10935

33

1538

2797

2004

2115

1646

1207

624

157

111

130

40

12412

589

2686

2428

2518

1902

1381

765

307

65

57

62

21

12788

33

435

1262

1205

762

541

360

102

62

4789

2.0

1.5

1.0
1
0.5
1

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Northern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14212: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14376


60.513N, 0.863E

NEXT Grid Point 14376


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 99.97
99.96
99.95
99.87 100.00 99.98
99.99 100.00 100.00 99.98
98.36
97.78
97.86
95.75
89.80
91.93
87.82
90.16
95.74
95.64
97.90
98.03
94.70
92.29
88.55
89.45
81.58
69.18
71.16
66.49
68.12
79.03
83.88
88.06
90.77
80.66
78.81
72.50
73.17
55.81
43.92
41.50
32.69
40.24
57.38
65.52
70.25
75.52
58.87
56.68
50.48
50.57
29.30
18.11
13.46
9.90
14.54
29.20
41.34
48.44
53.42
34.54
32.83
27.63
25.58
8.77
3.29
2.07
0.76
2.24
12.30
19.75
23.52
28.45
15.55
14.41
8.40
7.13
1.59
0.25
0.00
0.09
0.09
3.87
6.42
8.84
10.66
5.14
2.57
1.20
1.42
0.17
0.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.82
1.51
1.53
3.42
1.07
0.42
0.02
0.31
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.15
0.49
0.14
0.66
0.19
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.02
0.00
0.02
0.16
0.03
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
11.90
11.01
10.98
8.89
7.60
7.41
6.87
7.32
9.07
10.11
10.78
11.44
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
100.00
1.5
98.52
2.0
90.33
2.5
77.30
3.0
64.21
3.5
48.63
4.0
38.18
4.5
29.06
5.0
22.07
5.5
14.96
6.0
10.40
6.5
6.72
7.0
4.92
7.5
3.45
8.0*
2.44
13.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 3.83

Feb
100.00
100.00
97.58
89.88
79.31
63.87
51.02
38.62
30.00
22.50
16.11
11.07
6.69
3.97
2.45
1.63
1.15
0.00
3.34

Mar
100.00
100.00
98.86
94.94
84.43
69.61
52.81
39.63
26.86
17.97
11.55
7.74
4.83
2.82
1.85
1.51
1.30
0.00
3.35

Apr
100.00
99.94
94.97
74.41
54.64
36.34
22.72
13.11
6.61
3.98
2.59
1.70
1.33
1.05
0.85
0.69
0.34
0.00
2.33

May
100.00
100.00
76.96
50.34
29.53
16.91
8.74
4.88
2.63
1.67
1.14
0.42
0.27
0.21
0.13
0.03
0.00
0.00
1.72

Jun
100.00
99.83
80.35
43.16
17.92
8.23
4.03
1.68
0.74
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.53

Jul
100.00
99.16
66.48
31.25
14.60
6.20
2.30
0.69
0.22
0.13
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.35

Aug
100.00
100.00
75.78
43.19
23.26
9.53
3.47
1.72
0.85
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.54

Sep
100.00
99.85
90.28
68.43
47.28
32.38
22.96
15.96
11.06
7.13
4.55
3.01
2.30
1.65
1.33
1.06
0.90
0.00
2.31

Oct
100.00
100.00
96.77
82.98
65.92
46.76
32.87
24.39
17.39
12.92
8.47
5.35
3.84
2.78
2.11
1.75
1.40
0.00
2.81

Nov
100.00
100.00
98.90
90.17
76.45
58.94
43.84
32.11
22.69
15.42
10.59
7.45
4.72
3.19
2.53
1.85
1.50
0.00
3.11

Dec
100.00
100.00
99.82
96.15
86.04
72.63
56.23
41.88
30.81
22.48
16.05
11.26
8.35
5.93
4.39
3.73
2.99
0.00
3.57

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
8.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 8.0m to 13.5m.

Year
100.00
99.90
89.65
71.84
55.70
41.46
30.35
21.88
15.62
11.08
7.74
5.22
3.55
2.36
1.71
1.31
1.00
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

13.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 13.5m
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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14376: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
3

19

78843

490

484

508

464

548

523

630

513

4160

78824

1427

1067

1070

1184

1539

1581

1527

1675

11070

74664

2266

1554

1065

1630

2972

2927

2379

2390

17183

63594

2961

1286

724

1662

3878

3503

2778

2385

19177

46411

2023

724

253

1547

3464

3274

2080

1612

14977

27234

599

223

74

1085

2340

1992

1124

769

8206

12257

225

76

13

522

1016

583

465

309

3209

4051

74

195

168

83

109

60

691

842

24

60

12

131

151

19

20

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
24
28.50
1
32.70
1
51.50
Total

10090

5419

3712

8316

15988

14479

11112

9727

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 13.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
13.5
20.0
Total

NE

18

2147

883

3629

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

24

11

81

78843

143

306

1135

557

1840

1066

8077

78762

1074

166

891

2454

1229

2482

2118

14043

70685

3248

804

79

947

2335

1290

2402

1624

12729

56642

2910

429

35

958

1942

1099

2028

1821

11222

43913

2042

299

23

889

1678

1000

1501

1333

8765

32691

1185

205

703

1338

1040

1259

939

6677

23926

662

110

556

1073

1001

890

638

4937

17249

466

82

391

826

666

684

462

3579

12312

299

46

373

646

541

436

293

2634

8733

224

29

305

523

392

282

225

1980

6099

120

22

185

341

228

252

171

1319

4119

72

27

98

263

123

223

135

941

2800

33

73

127

90

107

78

508

1859

33

42

84

38

55

65

317

1351

28

51

48

30

43

43

243

1034

123

163

187

76

91

151

791

791

6940

15002

9424

14583

11173

78843

17230

4028

463

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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14376: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 13.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

19

4160

11070

17183 19177 14977

8206

3209

691

131

19

78843

38

257

358

119

17

791

61

111

58

11

81

152

71

317

25

134

262

81

508

11

68

249

556

54

941

10

31

138

514

580

40

1319

14

86

264

966

622

21

1980

12

25

143

555

1501

394

2634

12

81

305

1153

1805

219

3579

24

190

751

2339

1582

45

4937

36

130

541

1656

3351

953

10

6677

87

451

1159

3119

3653

295

8765

228

954

2475

4911

2629

25

11222

414

1788

4225

5541

757

12729

1134

3797

6516

2565

29

15

2207

3859

1943

53

8077

47

31

81

13.5
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5

5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

243

14043

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 13.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

117

1937

8236

11736

13534

13569

11459

8224

4920

2530

1294

643

383

1/10

173

79

Total Samples 78843

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

13.5
8

248

331

146

58

791

20

134

54

31

243

64

181

50

16

8.0

7.5
1

317

7.0
7

199

217

46

20

14

50

521

269

49

16

15

508

284

671

199

55

46

27

27

10

1319

6.5
12

941

6.0

5.5
43

870

681

154

74

90

44

19

1980

300

1387

571

165

82

75

30

13

2634

36

1152

1306

538

230

162

71

50

26

3579

396

2006

1307

454

327

258

92

49

31

4937

60

1479

2244

1055

680

538

312

131

72

57

27

22

6677

5.0

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0
1

634

2634

2022

1192

928

690

303

136

89

65

54

10

8765

121

2359

2837

1856

1457

1205

600

340

247

71

82

33

12

11222

22

1618

3546

2621

1826

1217

823

448

306

144

89

44

17

12729

732

3694

3482

2554

1518

850

620

429

92

25

21

14043

93

1176

2773

1646

961

592

476

240

90

16

15

23

13

10

2.5

2.0

1.5

1.0
8077

0.5
1

81

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Northern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14376: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14651


59.389N, 0.713W

NEXT Grid Point 14651


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
99.99 100.00 100.00 99.92
99.99
99.94
99.93
99.97
99.98
99.96 100.00 100.00 99.97
98.34
97.69
98.46
96.25
92.50
94.18
93.90
91.98
97.44
97.34
98.40
98.84
96.26
94.19
90.40
91.19
85.13
72.23
74.09
70.97
71.45
84.97
86.63
91.65
92.65
83.74
81.72
76.14
75.52
59.17
42.14
39.77
34.24
40.66
59.41
68.48
74.60
79.12
60.82
61.01
51.93
52.46
30.55
17.43
11.19
10.40
14.92
31.30
41.65
50.52
56.42
35.74
37.04
30.25
24.22
8.76
2.75
1.59
0.88
2.00
12.11
18.67
24.88
28.67
15.92
13.03
11.30
5.95
1.14
0.27
0.15
0.04
0.12
3.32
4.86
7.07
9.59
4.70
2.21
1.70
0.57
0.17
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.57
1.03
1.10
2.37
0.81
0.24
0.23
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.19
0.09
0.25
0.09
0.07
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
12.25
11.38
11.02
9.09
7.64
7.41
7.14
7.45
9.34
10.19
11.04
11.62
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
99.42
1.5
95.28
2.0
81.77
2.5
68.71
3.0
54.92
3.5
41.09
4.0
30.93
4.5
22.16
5.0
15.38
5.5
9.34
6.0
5.84
6.5*
4.00
12.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 3.42

Feb
100.00
100.00
96.77
88.12
74.10
56.57
42.98
33.84
25.35
18.95
12.45
7.74
3.97
2.47
0.00
3.09

Mar
100.00
100.00
98.21
91.54
75.75
58.07
42.61
29.38
18.12
10.58
6.20
3.63
1.82
0.94
0.00
2.94

Apr
100.00
99.95
93.99
69.27
46.49
30.07
16.26
9.33
4.79
2.97
1.82
0.83
0.40
0.26
0.00
2.14

May
100.00
99.75
72.98
41.11
22.38
11.70
6.29
3.05
1.58
0.63
0.28
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.54

Jun
100.00
98.78
70.94
32.53
13.18
5.43
2.07
0.74
0.14
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.37

Jul
100.00
98.54
58.98
26.87
11.47
4.02
1.08
0.28
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.26

Aug
100.00
99.87
68.02
36.91
17.70
6.86
2.52
0.78
0.43
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.41

Sep
100.00
100.00
88.55
62.19
41.70
26.98
17.62
11.51
6.98
4.06
2.55
1.77
1.25
0.79
0.00
2.08

Oct
100.00
100.00
94.55
77.61
54.71
38.45
27.71
20.12
14.04
9.31
6.18
4.12
2.66
2.05
0.00
2.53

Nov
100.00
100.00
97.02
87.64
68.97
50.06
36.59
25.34
16.88
10.60
7.30
4.00
2.47
1.64
0.00
2.80

Dec
100.00
100.00
99.18
91.65
77.90
62.31
47.00
34.07
23.55
15.62
10.74
7.96
5.93
4.42
0.00
3.20

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
6.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 6.5m to 12.0m.

Year
100.00
99.74
86.46
66.60
48.71
34.84
24.73
17.39
11.85
7.86
5.21
3.27
2.02
1.38
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

NE

15%
10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14651_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

20%

NE

10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

12

5.5

6.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 12.0m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14651_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14651: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
4

22

78843

370

385

367

312

355

363

383

390

2925

78821

1230

977

885

1024

1575

1425

1360

1396

9872

75896

2245

1496

1393

1878

2998

3103

2624

2332

18069

66024

2385

982

950

2116

3530

3951

3214

2647

19775

47955

1562

381

549

1983

2919

3566

2829

1841

15630

28180

592

165

217

1258

1893

2254

1551

911

8841

12550

220

19

19

504

793

649

559

306

3069

3709

21

92

118

101

112

88

572

640

15

14

10

61

68

15432

12642

9922

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
40
24.50
14
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8662

4406

4406

9170

14203

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14651_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 12.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

27

43

2041

1339

2978

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

30

21

42

43

206

78843

423

951

1058

485

2425

1750

10472

78637

1648

547

1819

2104

1303

3192

2065

15656

68165

2793

931

313

1600

1988

1405

3064

2010

14104

52509

2045

517

243

1397

1635

1123

2437

1541

10938

38405

1209

271

129

1170

1362

1050

1853

923

7967

27467

589

141

140

949

1130

982

1278

577

5786

19500

409

140

67

583

960

844

959

407

4369

13714

349

74

33

509

669

604

642

267

3147

9345

131

63

12

553

479

356

391

105

2090

6198

112

48

378

343

257

295

93

1528

4108

76

12

242

249

130

223

50

984

2580

45

124

120

65

110

34

508

1596

129

369

182

107

182

109

1088

1088

12933

5235

1923

10674

12300

8711

17093

9974

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
12.0
20.0
Total

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14651_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14651: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 12.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

22

2925

9872

18069 19775 15630

8841

3069

572

61

78843

1088

12.0
1

86

525

405

56

16

65

357

65

508

21

311

591

55

984

12

52

766

664

29

1528

14

23

225

1339

473

15

2090

20

80

663

2059

318

3147

13

55

215

1733

2237

113

32

130

718

3443

1437

23

5786

96

497

2223

4661

477

7967

92

357

1456

5260

3710

63

10938

303

1125

4285

7315

1073

14104

706

3151

7952

3813

27

12

1701

5001

3649

109

110

92

6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
1

4369

3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
15656

1.0
10472

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

206
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 12.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

381

3926

9820

13239

14596

12876

8767

6171

4663

2326

1031

509

282

1/10

156

86

Total Samples 78843

11

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

12.0
47

264

492

216

54

15

1088

59

292

121

34

314

450

153

36

72

763

495

84

74

15

11

11

437

1059

349

127

54

25

17

11

2090

83

1571

886

319

98

83

48

27

24

3147

761

2190

657

269

198

116

89

44

35

4369

129

2271

1765

642

330

262

154

95

65

42

14

16

5786

18

1287

2912

1331

731

382

530

397

207

71

60

19

16

225

3408

2394

1497

832

658

938

524

268

97

32

38

24

10938

36

2439

3715

2404

1437

1101

1184

1057

441

126

90

22

33

19

14104

13

1456

4347

2965

2379

1564

1225

851

445

184

93

69

42

21

15656

358

2407

2719

1709

1333

992

448

325

157

12

10

24

71

20

56

14

6.5
508

6.0
5

984

5.5
1528

5.0

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0
6

7967

2.5

2.0

1.5

1.0
9

10472

0.5
1

206

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14651_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Northern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14651: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14541


59.362N, 1.225E

NEXT Grid Point 14541


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 99.95
99.85
99.97
99.85
99.99 100.00 99.97
99.98
99.99
99.96
98.61
97.30
97.68
95.80
89.05
89.29
87.50
88.44
93.80
94.38
96.99
96.25
93.73
91.21
87.91
88.81
80.77
68.18
67.24
60.91
66.52
78.49
80.03
86.57
86.59
78.53
76.70
70.02
71.96
54.53
38.03
38.58
33.22
37.50
55.43
62.16
68.49
72.54
56.52
55.66
46.57
47.98
25.98
15.27
12.02
8.13
13.88
30.05
40.30
44.97
49.37
32.45
31.13
25.04
21.41
9.54
2.99
1.98
1.20
3.24
11.56
17.84
21.40
26.33
14.42
11.69
8.30
4.78
2.16
0.42
0.20
0.13
0.15
2.95
6.42
6.76
9.50
4.44
2.24
1.17
0.75
0.19
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.51
1.58
1.36
3.67
0.96
0.19
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.34
0.20
0.70
0.13
0.01
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.10
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
11.64
10.71
10.61
8.76
7.30
7.17
6.72
7.20
8.95
9.82
10.42
11.04
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
99.18
1.5
94.32
2.0
83.59
2.5
70.59
3.0
56.99
3.5
43.81
4.0
32.22
4.5
22.73
5.0
15.18
5.5
10.82
6.0
8.02
6.5
5.69
7.0*
4.00
13.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 3.52

Feb
100.00
100.00
95.88
86.23
72.11
56.59
42.92
33.06
24.51
18.07
12.39
8.35
4.55
2.97
1.71
0.00
3.06

Mar
100.00
100.00
97.97
90.93
76.56
59.93
46.12
31.63
20.57
12.79
7.38
4.35
2.52
1.55
0.78
0.00
3.02

Apr
100.00
99.97
90.70
68.31
46.80
28.71
16.79
9.56
5.71
3.68
2.29
1.68
1.14
0.90
0.63
0.00
2.14

May
100.00
98.13
68.64
42.20
23.81
14.00
6.93
3.78
2.39
1.25
0.52
0.36
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.56

Jun
100.00
97.59
69.80
34.97
15.93
7.16
3.07
1.45
0.51
0.20
0.11
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.41

Jul
100.00
96.43
57.41
31.15
13.15
4.84
1.64
0.52
0.36
0.15
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.27

Aug
100.00
99.43
68.82
38.29
18.88
8.87
3.94
1.87
0.72
0.31
0.18
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.46

Sep
100.00
99.77
87.07
63.98
42.81
29.65
20.83
13.40
8.64
5.23
3.60
2.69
1.94
1.31
1.00
0.00
2.16

Oct
100.00
100.00
94.14
77.79
57.48
39.56
28.88
20.99
15.36
10.20
7.23
4.38
2.84
1.99
1.78
0.00
2.59

Nov
100.00
100.00
96.71
85.23
69.12
52.11
37.73
26.56
18.56
12.45
8.81
5.45
3.49
2.61
1.94
0.00
2.87

Dec
100.00
100.00
98.16
90.28
77.91
63.74
48.51
34.93
25.72
18.26
12.86
9.14
6.66
5.30
4.08
0.00
3.28

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
7.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 7.0m to 13.0m.

Year
100.00
99.27
85.28
66.86
49.74
36.23
26.14
18.41
12.90
8.74
5.86
3.92
2.60
1.86
1.33
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

NE

15%
10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

13

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 13.0m
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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14541: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
7

30

78843

651

563

589

510

672

685

651

595

4916

78813

1474

1154

1187

1136

1677

1871

1703

1778

11980

73897

2427

1334

1047

1510

3041

3059

2485

2455

17358

61917

2883

899

694

1752

3841

3335

2974

2596

18974

44559

1706

402

338

1863

3187

2806

2276

1635

14213

25585

749

165

112

1349

1991

1523

1140

842

7871

11372

269

37

13

712

714

374

330

296

2745

3501

83

11

178

155

73

84

64

651

756

27

24

12

96

105

10284

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
12
28.50
2

32.70
51.50
Total

10263

4562

3999

9037

15304

13735

11659

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 13.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

195

60

19

43

31

23

157

47

575

78843

3870

320

225

720

1853

1007

1448

1585

11028

78268

4742

300

210

1296

2479

1509

2093

1895

14524

67240

4111

169

115

1259

2553

1539

2125

1631

13502

52716

3140

58

75

1035

1884

1423

1675

1361

10651

39214

1980

64

41

1051

1358

1334

1194

935

7957

28563

1205

24

24

789

1129

1320

986

614

6091

20606

722

19

18

613

938

979

673

384

4346

14515

525

14

550

709

740

461

269

3277

10169

339

389

436

489

410

208

2273

6892

351

354

318

209

133

1527

4619

122

280

217

180

157

86

1042

3092

70

123

124

105

113

50

585

2050

49

105

71

69

74

49

417

1465

194

255

206

149

109

135

1048

1048

8859

14342

11184

11884

9382

78843

0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0

161

5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
13.0
20.0
Total

21425

1024

743

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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14541: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 13.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

30

4916

11980

17358 18974 14213

7871

2745

651

96

78843

81

437

431

87

1048

12

84

234

82

417

17

130

368

65

585

43

409

544

34

1042

20

167

812

493

23

1527

25

66

471

1304

389

2273

17

44

201

1005

1799

204

3277

21

131

510

1979

1639

62

4346

50

318

1397

3175

1133

13

6091

37

234

837

2710

3704

433

7957

184

717

2038

4837

2829

46

10651

350

1779

4417

6178

776

13502

1169

3741

6619

2955

32

18

2767

5240

2915

88

397

173

13.0
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
1
2.5
2.0
1.5

14524

1.0
11028

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

575

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 13.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

525

3926

10581

13449

14806

12917

9381

5786

3723

2067

908

473

151

1/10

93

Total Samples 78843

54

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

13.0
1

89

565

272

79

39

1048

223

143

35

417

30

379

137

22

10

585

183

704

97

31

15

10

1042

21

740

589

94

38

13

22

10

1527

281

1371

384

85

46

38

44

23

2273

24

1134

1508

334

93

44

79

46

15

3277

298

2307

1078

282

141

107

76

31

17

54

1663

2661

726

303

331

229

85

30

7.0

6.5

6.0

5.5

5.0

4.5

4.0
2

4346

3.5
6091

3.0
1

623

3382

1894

746

399

509

260

85

22

11

7957

114

2833

3525

1551

791

839

609

182

106

41

24

22

11

10651

26

1743

4758

2703

1311

1162

844

308

298

198

80

10

39

21

13502

12

985

4935

3373

2131

1230

697

274

299

370

95

84

17

13

14524

419

2786

3658

1772

978

491

313

130

295

133

27

12

11028

93

125

123

33

101

35

33

13

17

2.5

2.0

1.5

1.0
1
0.5
2

575

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14541_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Northern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14541: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14594


59.300N, 0.475E

NEXT Grid Point 14594


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 99.95
99.88
99.98
99.99 100.00 100.00 99.97 100.00 99.99
99.98
98.61
98.32
98.78
96.74
91.22
92.96
91.43
91.02
96.48
96.55
98.09
97.79
95.64
93.28
90.10
90.90
84.77
71.23
72.59
68.21
69.61
83.38
84.97
90.23
89.80
82.36
79.45
73.79
75.66
58.44
41.37
41.70
35.27
41.08
59.60
65.33
72.72
76.52
59.99
59.77
50.86
51.39
28.82
17.15
12.62
9.83
15.18
31.64
41.59
49.43
53.84
35.10
35.37
28.73
23.75
9.93
3.03
1.99
1.14
2.69
12.18
18.67
23.87
27.96
15.71
12.55
10.20
5.23
1.85
0.43
0.20
0.12
0.13
3.36
6.07
7.35
9.77
4.75
2.44
1.37
0.66
0.19
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.59
1.46
1.33
3.48
0.96
0.18
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.31
0.17
0.73
0.13
0.03
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
12.07
11.21
10.94
9.08
7.58
7.43
7.07
7.45
9.29
10.12
10.88
11.44
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
99.07
1.5
94.58
2.0
83.43
2.5
69.77
3.0
57.22
3.5
43.31
4.0
32.61
4.5
23.45
5.0
15.74
5.5
10.19
6.0
7.43
6.5
5.10
7.0*
3.36
12.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 3.50

Feb
100.00
100.00
96.39
87.30
73.74
57.17
44.40
34.20
25.55
18.57
13.03
8.53
4.68
2.77
1.83
0.00
3.10

Mar
100.00
100.00
97.91
91.32
76.29
59.62
45.59
30.73
20.18
12.26
7.28
3.87
2.32
1.14
0.67
0.00
3.00

Apr
100.00
99.95
92.65
69.05
47.38
29.79
17.31
9.71
5.75
3.66
2.35
1.53
0.97
0.68
0.48
0.00
2.16

May
100.00
98.37
71.26
41.87
23.60
13.41
6.80
3.72
2.32
1.24
0.48
0.28
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.57

Jun
100.00
98.32
71.27
35.49
15.37
6.67
2.99
1.30
0.42
0.17
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.41

Jul
100.00
97.76
59.40
30.22
13.25
4.97
1.46
0.46
0.27
0.13
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.28

Aug
100.00
99.61
68.48
38.75
18.48
8.87
3.26
1.55
0.58
0.28
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.45

Sep
100.00
99.81
88.07
63.87
43.24
28.70
20.06
12.48
7.85
5.12
3.27
2.39
1.74
1.22
0.88
0.00
2.14

Oct
100.00
99.99
94.29
78.40
56.45
39.57
28.65
20.88
15.31
10.34
6.95
4.48
2.99
2.14
1.67
0.00
2.59

Nov
100.00
100.00
96.71
86.33
68.87
52.16
37.67
26.68
18.24
12.10
8.61
5.26
3.30
2.38
1.71
0.00
2.87

Dec
100.00
100.00
98.30
90.41
78.58
63.41
48.69
35.11
25.21
17.79
12.29
9.02
6.59
4.82
3.93
0.00
3.27

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
7.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 7.0m to 12.0m.

Year
100.00
99.48
86.06
67.18
49.77
36.09
26.10
18.28
12.81
8.72
5.82
3.78
2.50
1.68
1.21
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

NE

15%
10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

12

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 12.0m
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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14594: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

16

78843

437

410

378

462

440

447

392

456

3422

78827

1378

1008

947

941

1587

1631

1451

1528

10471

75405

2263

1474

1223

1673

2983

3087

2567

2366

17636

64934

2871

892

900

1903

3705

3619

3072

2661

19623

47298

1682

371

447

1999

3086

3240

2683

1777

15285

27675

669

158

166

1369

1980

1946

1419

941

8648

12390

302

13

14

673

722

502

415

342

2983

3742

69

12

167

146

81

96

86

657

759

24

18

17

14

98

102

10176

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
2
32.70
51.50
Total

9697

4328

4097

9209

14666

14565

12105

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 12.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

132

34

20

24

21

12

129

38

410

78843

3421

559

261

804

1632

780

1767

1359

10583

78433

4243

741

338

1422

2508

1415

2419

1797

14883

67850

3922

420

164

1355

2394

1563

2342

1567

13727

52967

2935

178

115

1293

1806

1322

1972

1168

10789

39240

1795

152

55

1022

1374

1260

1347

865

7870

28451

1065

89

48

952

1178

1224

1107

503

6166

20581

624

49

30

594

896

993

779

351

4316

14415

479

30

16

512

659

748

515

265

3224

10099

288

17

468

485

443

430

157

2290

6875

187

27

377

350

331

241

94

1608

4585

117

284

221

159

168

55

1006

2977

86

148

132

107

134

36

643

1971

57

93

73

58

75

17

373

1328

197

286

175

116

93

88

955

955

9634

13904

10531

13518

8360

78843

0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
12.0
20.0
Total

19548

2297

1051

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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14594: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 12.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

16

3422

10471

17636 19623 15285

8648

2983

657

98

78843

60

369

429

89

955

54

232

79

373

14

112

443

69

12.0
7.0
6.5
1

643

6.0
1

35

332

592

40

1006

23

81

852

618

24

19

25

308

1503

418

13

2290

32

119

839

1998

223

3224

12

76

348

1899

1904

72

18

212

1024

3541

1354

13

6166

15

131

643

2355

4285

438

7870

117

477

1742

5099

3312

41

246

1289

4287

6975

929

13727

808

3307

7197

3532

34

14883

1980

5065

3413

116

247

158

5.5
1

1608

5.0
4.5
4.0

4316

3.5
3.0
2.5
10789

2.0
1.5
1.0
10583

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

410

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 12.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

546

4154

10547

13600

14778

12882

8876

5740

3797

1987

1021

560

198

1/10

95

Total Samples 78843

59

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

12.0
1

118

535

178

77

40

955

220

114

27

373

34

443

128

24

11

643

271

612

75

31

13

1006

43

912

517

70

28

11

17

10

1608

375

1372

352

55

40

16

54

25

2290

26

1505

1199

260

64

37

42

65

25

430

2575

714

253

135

69

70

42

21

4316

73

2118

2477

601

271

225

185

146

41

22

6166

12

861

3607

1388

691

308

497

278

136

58

13

14

7870

157

3471

2882

1415

750

773

762

277

171

54

37

25

14

10789

23

2290

4576

2322

1218

1103

974

457

391

226

86

39

19

13727

11

1315

4961

2975

2152

1228

847

428

431

317

103

72

25

11

14883

497

2751

3038

1615

1120

618

358

209

233

105

15

12

10583

37

64

88

26

120

39

15

16

7.0

6.5

6.0

5.5

5.0

4.5
3224

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5
1

410

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14594_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Northern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14594: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14773


58.473N, 0.008W

NEXT Grid Point 14773


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98
99.99
99.88
99.84
99.88
99.84
99.88
99.94 100.00 99.97
99.97
99.93
98.03
96.79
98.09
96.20
91.02
90.99
89.93
89.96
96.33
96.19
97.31
96.64
94.77
92.29
88.12
90.19
81.62
67.85
70.09
67.49
70.18
83.18
85.96
89.91
88.86
81.26
78.81
74.25
74.89
59.04
43.55
40.29
35.45
41.22
60.26
67.55
74.24
76.00
60.38
60.97
53.92
51.78
30.86
19.27
13.53
11.73
16.88
31.88
40.17
51.51
53.82
36.27
38.19
29.65
26.23
11.09
2.61
2.69
1.97
3.20
11.94
17.34
26.08
27.91
16.51
13.60
12.26
6.96
2.21
0.39
0.29
0.19
0.52
3.15
5.59
7.75
9.93
5.20
2.87
2.32
0.60
0.25
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.93
1.11
1.40
2.64
1.00
0.22
0.13
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.09
0.19
0.20
0.22
0.09
0.00
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
12.17
11.39
11.04
9.11
7.59
7.37
7.12
7.51
9.31
10.04
11.06
11.34
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
96.41
1.5
88.64
2.0
76.00
2.5
62.67
3.0
48.61
3.5
35.45
4.0
25.31
4.5
17.80
5.0
11.75
5.5
7.13
6.0
4.66
6.5*
2.66
12.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 3.16

Feb
100.00
100.00
94.42
81.86
67.74
50.82
39.88
29.44
22.09
15.96
9.97
6.28
4.40
2.39
0.00
2.89

Mar
100.00
100.00
95.89
84.05
67.36
51.55
36.66
24.20
15.36
8.83
4.60
2.55
1.22
0.60
0.00
2.72

Apr
100.00
99.38
86.33
61.82
40.82
26.38
15.46
9.47
5.96
3.47
2.15
1.47
0.91
0.66
0.00
2.03

May
100.00
95.46
64.18
37.63
21.97
12.31
5.30
2.87
1.72
0.55
0.36
0.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.46

Jun
100.00
94.26
64.92
31.10
13.95
6.44
2.73
1.10
0.46
0.14
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.32

Jul
100.00
94.25
53.18
26.32
11.94
4.97
1.82
0.73
0.33
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.21

Aug
100.00
97.28
61.05
32.90
16.57
8.52
3.39
1.64
0.69
0.36
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.36

Sep
100.00
99.31
82.79
58.06
37.11
23.94
15.56
9.37
5.66
3.81
2.58
1.84
1.36
0.94
0.00
1.97

Oct
100.00
99.94
91.75
69.88
50.00
33.88
23.75
16.78
11.53
8.07
5.35
3.79
2.63
1.45
0.00
2.37

Nov
100.00
99.85
94.57
79.41
61.64
46.14
33.75
23.83
15.51
10.12
6.19
3.63
2.45
1.81
0.00
2.66

Dec
100.00
99.52
94.31
84.27
70.16
54.96
42.26
31.20
20.68
13.38
9.56
7.21
5.30
4.09
0.00
2.99

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
6.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 6.5m to 12.0m.

Year
100.00
98.26
81.54
61.21
44.49
31.80
22.35
15.44
10.39
6.84
4.36
2.82
1.90
1.21
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

NE

15%
10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14773_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

20%

NE

10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

12

5.5

6.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 12.0m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14773_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14773: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
6

10

11

56

78843

497

402

411

488

559

614

592

505

4068

78787

1368

939

932

1064

1665

1597

1518

1569

10652

74719

2130

1114

1168

1574

2871

2766

2457

2385

16465

64067

2486

782

1132

2167

3260

3347

2996

2836

19006

47602

1525

355

723

2048

2839

3122

2768

2197

15577

28596

689

92

256

1418

1691

2105

1597

1070

8918

13019

270

17

89

695

648

632

603

356

3310

4101

62

18

119

133

111

138

139

720

791

15

11

13

11

67

71

11071

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

9048

3707

4745

9584

13683

14314

12691

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14773_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 12.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

357

149

38

100

364

72

78

216

1374

78843

4239

731

476

1114

2865

1138

949

1665

13177

77469

4437

780

659

1615

3121

1871

1461

2091

16035

64292

3757

352

560

1283

2536

1813

1278

1601

13180

48257

2521

152

341

1153

1743

1528

1286

1282

10006

35077

1630

85

282

892

1364

1411

973

809

7446

25071

901

21

230

730

993

1271

724

578

5448

17625

578

30

203

564

818

909

485

399

3986

12177

452

26

107

470

511

611

356

266

2799

8191

270

60

448

376

395

242

158

1953

5392

143

42

266

299

209

163

91

1215

3439

108

20

216

164

99

71

43

726

2224

87

24

132

114

104

54

28

543

1498

235

44

252

142

93

73

116

955

955

3086

9235

15410

11524

8193

9343

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
12.0
20.0
Total

19715

2337

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14773_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14773: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 12.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

56

4068

10652

16465 19006 15577

8918

3310

720

67

78843

10

87

354

439

61

955

53

354

125

543

18

137

492

73

726

53

407

693

54

1215

31

140

1048

702

24

1953

33

61

472

1754

467

2799

15

57

227

1158

2333

194

3986

25

148

563

2662

2003

44

5448

12

103

446

1499

4479

898

7446

107

333

971

3866

4545

182

10006

256

1158

3023

6844

1880

16

735

2902

6804

5438

152

16035

34

2342

5445

4891

464

13177

14

612

665

82

12.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
1
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
13180

1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

1374
10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14773_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 12.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

15

1875

7401

13567

15790

14719

11087

6716

3788

2331

886

391

145

102

1/10

Total Samples 78843

25

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

12.0
7

297

391

169

64

23

955

60

387

80

16

543

257

412

42

14

726

28

792

324

56

13

372

1220

274

59

11

41

1532

877

176

60

33

476

2515

614

193

68

66

2519

1887

464

157

14

1036

4011

1199

481

190

4498

2642

1177

46

2971

5200

2163

42

1991

6605

3324

1203

4964

3591

628

395

195

6.5

6.0

5.5
1

1215

12

1953

22

40

18

2799

39

32

19

24

3986

135

92

72

32

19

158

259

175

96

10

7446

365

335

517

207

55

10

10006

1005

605

617

465

65

32

13180

1954

818

713

364

154

39

16

1607

871

523

246

93

45

12

53

40

30

15

5.0

4.5

4.0

3.5
4

5448

3.0

2.5

2.0

1.5
12

16035

13

13177

1.0
9

0.5
1

15

1374

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14773_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Northern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14773: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14832


58.404N, 0.733W

NEXT Grid Point 14832


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98
99.99
99.86
99.93
99.95
99.99
99.96
99.98
99.99
99.98
99.99
99.97
97.95
96.41
98.28
95.98
90.99
92.33
93.44
91.22
96.90
97.06
98.06
97.63
95.51
92.27
88.27
90.51
83.68
69.32
71.13
68.08
70.85
85.02
87.85
91.27
90.50
82.34
79.06
73.84
74.74
58.78
41.34
37.75
32.88
39.54
57.89
67.16
75.26
76.55
59.48
60.76
51.70
51.12
29.85
17.13
11.34
10.16
15.22
29.54
39.15
51.14
53.66
34.98
36.63
29.00
24.63
9.79
1.81
1.84
1.25
2.27
10.90
15.95
25.28
26.72
15.44
12.34
10.28
5.71
1.36
0.24
0.12
0.01
0.12
2.73
4.44
6.34
8.84
4.35
2.41
1.88
0.40
0.14
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.68
0.75
0.86
2.06
0.76
0.10
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.08
0.15
0.06
0.04
0.04
0.03
0.05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
12.05
11.20
10.92
9.03
7.50
7.25
7.04
7.44
9.17
9.98
11.03
11.28
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
99.52
1.0
95.38
1.5
84.94
2.0
71.64
2.5
56.99
3.0
42.96
3.5
29.66
4.0
20.59
4.5
13.33
5.0
7.93
5.5
5.47
6.0*
2.36
11.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.92

Feb
100.00
99.69
93.54
78.95
63.34
47.96
35.93
25.95
17.99
12.03
7.41
4.79
2.52
0.00
2.72

Mar
100.00
100.00
94.29
81.25
62.97
45.70
30.86
19.21
11.11
5.72
2.82
1.58
0.76
0.00
2.54

Apr
100.00
98.86
84.59
59.17
37.95
23.37
13.31
8.00
5.07
2.84
1.71
0.93
0.59
0.00
1.94

May
100.00
94.41
62.03
35.03
19.42
10.05
4.09
2.18
0.91
0.31
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.39

Jun
100.00
92.72
59.89
26.37
10.94
4.89
1.73
0.71
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.24

Jul
100.00
93.56
48.88
21.78
9.93
3.65
1.12
0.33
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.14

Aug
100.00
95.46
57.04
29.22
13.52
6.17
2.29
0.91
0.39
0.09
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.28

Sep
100.00
98.81
79.91
52.28
31.65
20.99
12.21
7.38
4.40
2.82
1.90
1.25
0.83
0.00
1.83

Oct
100.00
99.60
90.36
65.92
45.79
30.67
20.96
14.73
9.98
6.59
4.50
3.21
2.06
0.00
2.24

Nov
100.00
99.69
93.32
76.34
57.69
41.81
29.41
19.92
12.38
7.67
4.38
2.55
1.56
0.00
2.49

Dec
100.00
98.86
93.46
81.91
65.98
50.81
37.75
25.87
16.14
10.99
7.89
5.85
4.30
0.00
2.80

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
6.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 6.0m to 11.5m.

Year
100.00
97.58
79.28
57.64
40.79
28.50
19.31
12.84
8.21
5.17
3.20
2.13
1.24
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

NE

15%
10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

20%

NE

10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

11.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m
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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14832: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

27

78843

435

412

414

392

457

506

479

418

3513

78816

1296

984

919

1060

1691

1558

1479

1393

10380

75303

2219

1271

1300

1873

3049

3096

2685

2537

18030

64923

2295

811

1171

2219

3429

3619

3193

2574

19311

46893

1412

328

704

1944

2733

3375

2854

2061

15411

27582

618

85

255

1324

1764

2159

1542

994

8741

12171

210

22

108

413

619

622

560

277

2831

3430

26

66

98

84

132

122

564

599

30

35

10387

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
36
24.50
10
28.50
2
32.70
51.50
Total

8533

3919

4899

9295

13845

15032

12933

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

459

231

63

196

488

109

112

248

1906

78843

3957

1244

580

1368

3052

1443

1199

1589

14432

76937

4317

1283

824

1790

3204

2142

1693

1805

17058

62505

3291

630

693

1452

2351

1839

1568

1461

13285

45447

2114

332

388

1217

1717

1559

1327

1040

9694

32162

1269

210

350

897

1399

1396

1020

701

7242

22468

691

74

278

726

1084

1074

702

471

5100

15226

531

66

224

591

752

748

441

297

3650

10126

368

51

117

476

467

457

281

186

2403

6476

189

24

85

351

384

250

204

65

1552

4073

111

17

47

216

232

108

66

48

845

2521

95

32

195

162

107

59

38

695

1676

231

92

288

141

67

65

91

981

981

17623

4175

3773

9763

15433

11299

8737

8040

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
11.5
20.0
Total

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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14832: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

27

3513

10380

18030 19311 15411

8741

2831

564

30

78843

15

123

453

355

28

981

16

179

384

113

35

282

460

60

20

112

723

666

25

1552

17

44

318

1465

549

2403

53

163

894

2266

264

23

104

442

2127

2354

46

5100

17

44

319

1149

4568

1137

7242

83

266

783

3504

4859

199

223

814

2689

7254

2288

13

567

2466

7661

6178

179

14

1926

5674

6276

542

14432

692

1086

122

1906

11.5
6.0
695

5.5
1

845

5.0
4.5
4.0
1

3650

3.5
3.0
2.5
9694

2.0
1

13285

1.5
17058

1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14832_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

21

2573

8588

14423

16339

14207

10075

5933

3080

2184

943

299

91

59

1/10

20

Total Samples 78843

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

11.5
1

115

344

306

141

57

17

981

272

333

76

14

695

23

466

286

57

13

845

440

831

204

64

13

1552

31

1371

729

179

57

11

11

12

594

2099

589

194

66

37

28

22

17

75

2783

1326

503

168

124

77

22

11

5100

6.0

5.5

5.0

4.5
1

2403

4.0
3650

3.5

3.0
1

19

1371

3804

1052

482

141

142

117

72

18

10

13

7242

263

4842

2042

1191

401

204

403

265

60

9694

65

3522

5024

1886

1096

431

497

546

176

30

13285

37

2554

6836

3144

2123

800

762

434

271

68

27

1656

5463

3489

1798

912

598

341

86

69

11

878

497

294

81

32

78

11

10

2.5

2.0

1.5
17058

1.0
7

14432

0.5
1

21

1906

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseanth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14832_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Northern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14832: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14715


58.378N, 1.142E

NEXT Grid Point 14715


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 99.97
99.72
99.95
99.87
99.90
99.98
99.96 100.00 99.99
99.94
98.30
97.78
97.85
96.36
89.87
91.03
89.53
90.69
96.44
96.04
97.72
96.62
94.82
92.98
88.40
90.17
82.92
69.47
70.96
68.09
72.45
83.64
86.50
90.28
88.52
81.98
79.12
74.73
74.84
58.73
41.25
41.73
36.23
41.13
60.34
66.84
74.40
75.64
60.32
61.60
54.09
51.24
30.24
16.64
12.78
11.56
16.51
34.10
39.11
51.59
54.20
36.04
37.13
30.21
26.32
10.84
2.41
2.50
1.72
3.87
12.11
17.73
25.23
29.21
16.54
14.27
11.63
6.68
2.52
0.25
0.26
0.06
0.30
3.23
5.96
7.89
10.59
5.27
3.29
1.27
0.58
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.99
1.27
1.40
2.78
0.98
0.25
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.14
0.18
0.20
0.82
0.14
0.00
0.05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
12.24
11.37
11.02
9.10
7.43
7.42
7.11
7.61
9.37
10.06
11.04
11.40
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
97.33
1.5
90.62
2.0
79.23
2.5
65.85
3.0
53.39
3.5
39.63
4.0
28.97
4.5
21.03
5.0
14.75
5.5
9.92
6.0
6.46
6.5
4.30
7.0*
3.32
12.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 3.35

Feb
100.00
100.00
94.58
82.93
69.01
52.85
41.00
31.66
24.27
18.15
11.83
7.40
5.19
3.31
1.85
0.00
2.98

Mar
100.00
100.00
96.92
86.42
69.94
54.56
39.99
27.41
18.51
11.49
6.39
3.99
1.75
0.85
0.48
0.00
2.85

Apr
100.00
99.43
87.00
63.74
42.05
26.95
16.26
10.39
5.84
3.60
2.39
1.68
1.22
0.90
0.66
0.00
2.06

May
100.00
96.44
63.39
37.97
21.93
12.38
5.89
3.11
1.93
0.72
0.49
0.28
0.04
0.01
0.00
0.00
1.47

Jun
100.00
95.37
66.23
33.30
14.98
7.55
3.73
1.68
0.60
0.34
0.15
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.37

Jul
100.00
94.41
55.62
29.29
12.89
5.74
2.51
1.27
0.63
0.16
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.26

Aug
100.00
98.36
64.43
35.82
19.05
10.26
5.24
2.26
1.22
0.61
0.21
0.15
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.43

Sep
100.00
99.69
84.31
61.56
41.79
26.91
18.33
11.06
6.91
4.68
3.18
2.48
1.81
1.36
1.13
0.00
2.09

Oct
100.00
100.00
92.75
72.48
51.78
36.11
25.61
18.33
12.31
8.32
5.62
4.05
2.67
1.78
1.14
0.00
2.44

Nov
100.00
99.97
95.66
81.67
64.57
49.15
36.30
25.62
17.81
11.59
7.24
4.43
2.93
2.33
1.77
0.00
2.77

Dec
100.00
99.63
94.55
85.96
72.73
58.02
45.64
34.80
24.61
16.05
11.04
7.74
5.63
4.35
3.57
0.00
3.12

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
7.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 7.0m to 12.5m.

Year
100.00
98.60
82.63
63.36
46.55
33.78
24.42
17.21
11.92
8.01
5.25
3.50
2.30
1.59
1.16
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

NE

15%
10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

12.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 12.5m
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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14715: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
5

11

45

78843

507

484

435

494

596

546

540

435

4037

78798

1271

902

827

928

1576

1626

1496

1499

10125

74761

2343

1100

1238

1643

2821

2911

2392

2631

17079

64636

2675

668

1098

2281

3540

3194

2780

2907

19143

47557

1751

235

771

2186

2579

3128

2673

2048

15371

28414

721

58

330

1551

1713

2014

1463

1036

8886

13043

300

12

110

837

584

605

561

376

3385

4157

81

127

137

95

118

94

659

772

12

17

13

13

15

29

108

113

11061

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
2
32.70
51.50
Total

9666

3468

4837

10069

13560

14133

12049

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 12.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

414

78

41

79

220

51

46

177

1106

78843

4282

383

431

1134

2417

1035

776

2131

12589

77737

4587

281

643

1434

2994

1646

1152

2453

15190

65148

3836

101

465

1302

2610

1767

1175

2001

13257

49958

2733

47

329

1107

1665

1601

1130

1457

10069

36701

1691

16

231

833

1182

1416

1013

993

7375

26632

1070

212

781

941

1291

724

660

5688

19257

586

22

151

556

711

1060

601

487

4174

13569

462

120

482

480

779

373

376

3076

9395

273

74

453

343

505

333

192

2178

6319

153

38

289

264

316

175

141

1380

4141

130

195

166

223

125

101

948

2761

78

142

100

118

68

47

559

1813

66

68

49

56

57

37

342

1254

202

34

154

132

135

106

149

912

912

2792

9009

14274

11999

7854

11402

78843

0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
12.5
20.0
Total

20563

950

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Northern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14715: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 12.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

45

4037

10125

17079 19143 15371

8886

3385

659

108

78843

47

347

413

97

912

44

202

82

342

78

399

68

559

25

201

661

54

948

12

59

571

707

25

1380

13

31

180

1337

602

12

2178

36

108

620

1982

318

3076

22

68

226

1519

2215

122

35

180

743

2990

1717

23

5688

17

127

473

1783

4385

587

7375

108

417

1310

4189

3938

105

10069

295

1118

3504

6797

1540

779

2868

6545

4900

95

35

2233

5067

4906

348

602

463

36

12.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0

4174

3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5

13257
15190

1.0
12589

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

1106

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.0m in 0.5m intervals and 7.0 to 12.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

15

1564

6376

12845

14884

14953

11962

7697

4565

2260

835

465

287

98

1/10

24

Total Samples 78843

1/20

78843

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

12.5
1

188

433

180

68

36

912

214

106

20

22

429

92

13

559

273

600

51

18

948

16

846

444

44

19

1380

295

1508

272

35

20

11

17

20

2178

30

1300

1331

193

55

33

39

70

25

3076

315

2733

732

177

68

40

49

44

16

4174

7.0
342

6.5

6.0

5.5

5.0

4.5

4.0

3.5
2

55

2061

2521

463

159

161

104

105

49

5688

12

748

3771

1587

409

216

348

181

87

15

7375

148

3557

3429

1230

467

534

501

145

41

13

10069

42

2420

5448

2616

912

728

764

258

36

24

17

1522

6198

3567

1801

906

713

307

80

20

16

23

1105

4470

3919

1432

887

445

196

61

26

15

12

440

341

146

77

43

17

3.0

2.5

2.0
13257

1.5
15190

1.0
4

12589

0.5
2

15

1106

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Northern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14715: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Central North Sea

60N

14897
15194

14956
15138

15021

Central
North
Sea

15318
15143
15321

55N

50N

10W

5W

5E

Grid Point 14897


57.398N, 1.064E

NEXT Grid Point 14897


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.97 100.00 99.98
99.87
99.88
99.78
99.93 100.00 99.97
99.97
99.99
99.94
97.91
97.33
98.13
96.00
90.56
91.25
90.22
92.32
96.37
97.62
98.09
97.54
95.26
92.05
89.09
90.01
83.00
70.91
71.08
69.70
75.02
84.09
87.90
90.66
90.26
82.77
80.32
76.71
73.75
58.25
43.05
41.42
39.15
44.76
62.47
66.37
75.29
76.42
61.40
62.72
55.14
51.08
31.69
15.51
12.92
12.04
18.85
34.55
37.65
53.40
52.72
36.41
36.91
30.18
25.28
10.19
2.11
1.77
1.58
3.87
12.90
15.12
26.22
28.32
16.13
14.67
12.08
7.50
2.04
0.00
0.03
0.01
0.28
3.30
4.41
6.94
10.19
5.09
3.14
2.29
0.51
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.05
0.91
1.33
2.46
0.97
0.31
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.21
0.23
0.13
0.09
0.00
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
12.28
11.54
10.99
9.11
7.50
7.40
7.25
7.87
9.47
9.91
11.13
11.39
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
95.59
1.5
87.99
2.0
75.04
2.5
59.88
3.0
45.10
3.5
33.76
4.0
24.43
4.5
17.27
5.0
11.91
5.5
7.88
6.0
4.86
6.5*
3.45
11.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 3.11

Feb
100.00
99.80
93.74
79.93
63.21
51.00
39.24
29.31
21.10
14.40
10.36
6.84
4.76
3.05
0.00
2.85

Mar
100.00
100.00
95.13
81.34
64.12
48.28
34.36
23.93
15.63
9.56
5.11
2.54
0.67
0.28
0.00
2.66

Apr
100.00
98.70
83.29
60.53
39.68
25.42
15.14
9.65
5.71
3.72
2.44
1.42
1.05
0.66
0.00
1.99

May
100.00
95.22
63.40
36.69
19.54
10.47
4.66
1.97
0.51
0.16
0.09
0.06
0.04
0.03
0.00
1.41

Jun
100.00
92.58
61.91
31.73
14.21
7.25
2.96
0.79
0.25
0.15
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.31

Jul
100.00
92.32
55.08
27.61
12.32
5.33
2.24
1.06
0.33
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.23

Aug
100.00
96.74
63.55
35.27
18.85
10.19
5.30
2.38
1.08
0.33
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.41

Sep
100.00
98.84
82.55
58.29
38.95
25.20
16.40
9.92
5.66
3.98
2.62
2.02
1.53
1.06
0.00
1.99

Oct
100.00
100.00
91.08
67.40
46.79
32.40
22.32
14.61
9.17
6.21
4.21
2.82
1.64
1.22
0.00
2.28

Nov
100.00
100.00
94.57
79.09
61.40
45.93
33.55
23.32
14.74
8.52
5.45
3.49
2.30
1.57
0.00
2.63

Dec
100.00
100.00
92.55
82.18
67.89
53.51
40.01
29.63
20.68
13.72
9.18
6.18
4.82
3.55
0.00
2.91

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
6.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 6.5m to 11.5m.

Year
100.00
97.84
80.94
60.55
43.40
31.14
21.69
14.96
9.89
6.47
4.26
2.75
1.79
1.23
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

NE

15%
10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

20%

NE

10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

11.5

5.5

6.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 11.5m
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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14897: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
4

12

45

78843

414

411

415

413

465

601

550

423

3692

78798

1102

914

840

1121

1426

1650

1539

1254

9846

75106

2071

1109

1310

1698

2833

2843

2399

2587

16850

65260

2499

830

1255

2242

3334

3574

2865

3104

19703

48410

1587

312

938

1960

2459

3634

2657

2442

15989

28707

708

93

490

1283

1297

2332

1530

973

8706

12718

228

28

220

454

592

834

569

320

3245

4012

25

69

88

164

158

133

695

767

26

25

68

72

11270

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
58
24.50
1
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8672

3699

5499

9246

12507

15652

12298

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 11.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

490

188

56

174

322

127

124

223

1704

78843

4099

511

786

1028

2512

1595

881

1911

13323

77139

4547

371

1093

1313

3051

2152

1192

2355

16074

63816

3753

300

936

1300

1974

2314

1179

1769

13525

47742

2414

119

459

996

1314

2036

1061

1266

9665

34217

1611

32

414

779

1050

1631

950

986

7453

24552

862

13

321

573

733

1349

770

684

5305

17099

576

17

300

518

478

1084

495

529

3997

11794

336

11

167

321

358

789

413

303

2698

7797

153

221

252

474

244

155

1738

5099

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
239
5.0
141

99

167

166

328

167

123

1193

3361

103

40

162

119

162

85

82

757

2168

96

23

64

55

106

42

51

440

1411

98

70

75

176

140

190

971

971

4945

7686

12459

14323

7743

10627

78843

5.5
6.0
6.5
222
11.5
20.0
Total

19489

1571

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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14897: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 11.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

45

3692

9846

16850 19703 15989

8706

3245

695

68

78843

61

373

467

62

971

61

278

96

440

14

129

543

67

757

11.5
6.5
6.0
5.5
2

28

389

733

38

1193

15

115

937

651

18

1738

42

402

1816

422

2698

27

198

1255

2315

193

23

108

464

2732

1929

48

5305

50

366

1511

4643

875

7453

69

325

959

3591

4536

184

9665

223

994

3034

7171

2089

10

649

2453

6728

6073

169

29

2007

5140

5512

635

10

738

850

106

5.0
4.5
4.0
3997

3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
13525

1.5
16074

1.0
13323

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

1704
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.5m in 0.5m intervals and 6.5 to 11.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

30

2030

7598

14065

15618

14828

11359

6621

3721

1835

626

300

151

Total Samples 78843

57

1/10

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

11.5
1

370

402

130

43

25

971

31

332

57

20

440

253

451

49

757

12

833

318

27

1193

244

1236

204

47

1738

15

1455

1018

165

28

11

2698

327

2633

707

140

54

32

29

53

20

3997

49

2134

2368

371

126

95

62

54

23

22

5305

12

845

4214

1481

292

149

204

116

112

17

11

7453

178

3945

3318

1022

361

316

355

126

33

9665

41

2798

5734

2285

923

563

660

400

86

21

11

13525

20

1753

6917

3699

1704

723

714

406

99

27

1252

5235

3968

1256

801

463

236

84

18

29

756

566

191

88

30

35

6.5

6.0

5.5

5.0

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.0

1.5
16074

1.0
2

13323

0.5
1

1704

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14897_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14897: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 14956


57.336N, 0.362E

NEXT Grid Point 14956


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.97 100.00 100.00 99.87
99.92
99.87
99.99 100.00 99.99
99.97 100.00 99.96
97.47
96.99
97.89
96.11
90.60
90.43
89.81
92.34
96.87
97.65
98.30
97.85
95.18
91.53
88.43
90.54
82.83
68.61
68.73
67.15
73.96
83.56
87.51
90.22
89.56
81.84
79.23
74.66
74.01
56.93
38.30
37.45
33.69
42.78
59.31
64.24
74.86
75.06
59.11
60.53
53.36
49.69
30.22
13.79
10.52
9.10
15.76
29.78
36.03
51.06
50.31
34.07
34.06
27.73
24.29
8.65
1.66
0.85
0.70
2.93
10.85
12.76
24.38
26.64
14.56
12.66
9.64
5.77
1.25
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.22
2.85
3.32
5.91
8.54
4.16
2.48
1.48
0.28
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.74
0.78
0.94
1.78
0.71
0.24
0.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.19
0.17
0.00
0.06
0.00
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
11.95
11.21
10.84
8.95
7.27
7.11
6.95
7.64
9.18
9.69
10.97
11.10
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
99.36
1.0
94.98
1.5
85.79
2.0
71.65
2.5
56.43
3.0
41.06
3.5
30.35
4.0
20.29
4.5
14.84
5.0
9.70
5.5
6.17
6.0*
3.87
11.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.95

Feb
100.00
99.69
93.28
78.83
61.55
48.57
36.46
26.56
18.24
12.24
9.00
6.03
3.53
0.00
2.74

Mar
100.00
99.84
94.50
79.86
61.91
45.38
32.22
21.65
13.15
6.86
3.56
1.37
0.48
0.00
2.56

Apr
100.00
98.61
82.80
58.15
37.82
23.12
14.16
8.63
5.19
3.35
2.18
1.25
0.76
0.00
1.94

May
100.00
94.64
61.46
34.37
18.46
9.14
3.66
1.63
0.22
0.10
0.06
0.04
0.01
0.00
1.36

Jun
100.00
91.62
59.09
29.40
12.48
5.23
1.82
0.42
0.17
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.25

Jul
100.00
91.77
51.02
24.25
10.67
4.42
1.54
0.61
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.17

Aug
100.00
95.38
60.59
32.61
16.06
8.13
3.85
1.75
0.67
0.16
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.34

Sep
100.00
98.49
80.06
54.68
33.90
21.87
13.53
7.93
4.80
3.40
2.22
1.53
1.05
0.00
1.88

Oct
100.00
100.00
90.29
65.73
44.46
29.79
20.32
12.92
7.99
5.32
3.63
2.35
1.46
0.00
2.20

Nov
100.00
99.86
93.49
76.87
58.67
43.07
30.96
21.10
12.93
7.01
4.49
2.84
1.73
0.00
2.53

Dec
100.00
99.85
91.67
80.50
65.23
50.52
37.57
26.67
17.40
12.11
7.96
5.59
4.12
0.00
2.79

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
6.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 6.0m to 11.5m.

Year
100.00
97.41
79.33
58.30
40.97
28.71
19.68
13.29
8.38
5.42
3.54
2.24
1.41
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14956_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

20%

NE

10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

11.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14956_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 14956: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
5

29

78843

411

396

395

467

563

544

563

435

3774

78814

1159

932

947

1138

1613

1681

1677

1367

10514

75040

2223

1210

1436

1896

2960

3009

2509

2679

17922

64526

2464

893

1221

2004

3345

3834

2933

3048

19742

46604

1470

267

894

1823

2349

3732

2683

2166

15384

26862

552

111

457

1099

1313

2347

1457

866

8202

11478

211

19

169

292

494

748

518

262

2713

3276

44

69

110

117

126

515

563

21

10

44

48

10965

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
46
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8541

3832

5524

8764

12720

16018

12479

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14956_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

538

187

93

191

461

146

121

305

2042

78843

4317

750

825

1195

2787

1705

903

1772

14254

76801

4647

540

1225

1372

3085

2312

1341

2062

16584

62547

3769

404

1003

1237

1993

2383

1222

1651

13662

45963

2428

174

562

983

1374

2028

1007

1110

9666

32301

1499

27

403

715

1070

1599

942

862

7117

22635

816

14

367

565

755

1282

614

628

5041

15518

579

25

321

489

501

1056

463

439

3873

10477

355

20

165

277

381

627

301

201

2327

6604

158

175

264

372

183

143

1488

4277

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
193
5.0
164

103

160

150

246

102

93

1020

2789

103

41

146

122

144

58

42

660

1769

288

125

109

112

165

122

182

1109

1109

19696

2153

5391

7614

13055

14065

7379

9490

78843

5.5
6.0
11.5
20.0
Total

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14956_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14956: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

29

3774

10514

17922 19742 15384

8202

2713

515

44

78843

121

530

404

41

1109

11

125

468

55

30

381

574

30

1020

94

799

563

21

1488

52

347

1551

367

2327

33

143

1207

2310

174

16

93

482

2553

1865

32

5041

49

313

1346

4500

896

7117

87

271

923

3656

4580

149

9666

220

888

3025

7599

1924

13662

594

2557

7323

5979

129

16584

19

1978

5672

6112

472

14254

887

1054

94

11.5
6.0
660

5.5
1
5.0
4.5
4.0
3873

3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

2042
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14956_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

44

2559

8058

14397

16179

14414

10789

6073

3272

1936

639

282

125

Total Samples 78843

73

1/10

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

11.5
59

478

378

136

44

14

1109

276

327

41

15

660

16

671

295

32

1020

246

976

233

27

1488

16

1278

785

194

41

356

2531

707

131

47

19

20

40

20

3873

44

2166

1997

457

121

106

59

41

25

24

5041

929

3973

1380

282

133

187

102

85

18

21

7117

187

4121

3024

1129

341

253

401

153

44

9666

37

2882

5906

2143

1031

478

555

498

89

31

10

13662

26

1848

7184

3642

1873

630

736

423

160

39

15

1550

5615

3888

1432

822

500

292

128

18

43

983

557

248

103

41

50

13

6.0

5.5

5.0

4.5
2327

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.0

1.5
16584

1.0
1

14254

0.5
1

2042

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT14956_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 14956: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15194


56.748N, 1.583W

NEXT Grid Point 15194


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.94
99.97 100.00 99.97 100.00 99.99 100.00 100.00 99.99
96.05
95.34
97.71
94.78
86.97
87.13
88.35
89.23
95.82
96.44
97.73
97.63
93.58
86.72
82.65
87.09
77.62
60.04
60.11
57.63
65.31
77.05
84.02
87.89
85.57
75.93
71.44
62.52
67.90
48.88
29.59
25.12
23.11
30.71
44.71
53.91
69.09
64.49
49.21
48.61
42.87
42.61
21.17
6.98
4.21
4.71
8.37
20.06
22.93
41.70
41.08
25.34
24.69
18.62
17.99
4.53
0.12
0.03
0.12
0.93
6.64
7.35
14.04
18.20
9.40
9.16
4.56
3.59
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.67
1.49
2.38
4.54
2.28
1.18
0.35
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.17
0.61
0.12
0.55
0.26
0.06
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.15
0.00
0.01
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
10.77
9.89
10.13
8.14
6.53
6.32
6.22
6.76
8.12
8.71
9.94
9.97
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
98.40
1.0
84.13
1.5
65.88
2.0
47.00
2.5
30.29
3.0
19.31
3.5
11.24
4.0
6.22
4.5*
2.42
7.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.08

Feb
100.00
98.90
84.53
61.24
41.88
28.17
17.05
11.37
6.43
3.20
0.00
2.03

Mar
100.00
98.70
83.91
61.31
40.60
22.62
10.55
4.69
2.21
0.90
0.00
1.88

Apr
100.00
95.86
69.11
38.46
18.75
11.32
6.64
3.43
1.33
0.57
0.00
1.49

May
100.00
87.84
46.50
20.99
7.86
0.91
0.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.07

Jun
100.00
83.58
39.17
10.31
1.76
0.48
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.93

Jul
100.00
80.80
30.86
7.86
1.49
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.86

Aug
100.00
86.70
39.75
14.64
4.51
1.25
0.48
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.98

Sep
100.00
93.33
59.29
30.79
15.25
8.69
4.78
2.70
1.44
0.62
0.00
1.34

Oct
100.00
98.39
74.19
44.94
25.16
14.74
7.57
4.09
2.82
2.15
0.00
1.63

Nov
100.00
98.61
82.55
55.40
35.20
21.33
11.62
5.82
2.24
0.60
0.00
1.81

Dec
100.00
97.12
82.51
63.01
42.95
28.00
17.35
10.26
6.63
4.14
0.00
2.03

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
4.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 4.5m to 7.5m.

Year
100.00
93.14
64.58
39.46
23.45
13.91
7.91
4.44
2.42
1.21
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15194_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

7.5

3.5

4.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 7.5m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15194_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15194: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
1

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
477

530

542

663

728

754

743

614

5051

78834

1378

1224

1160

1696

2259

2240

2110

1854

13921

73783

2413

1535

1568

2144

3368

4076

3198

2761

21063

59862

1639

1065

871

1983

2876

4384

3505

2495

18818

38799

803

270

575

1090

2228

3756

2555

1294

12571

19981

323

75

278

307

914

2138

1147

427

5609

7410

99

15

22

64

308

559

358

171

1596

1801

11

22

49

63

39

186

205

10

19

19

17963

13689

9659

78843

3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
2
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

7135

4714

5017

7959

12707

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15194_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 7.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

1372

565

389

666

921

897

324

271

5405

78843

5309

2617

1756

2046

3853

3829

1709

1406

22525

73438

4390

2386

1930

1453

2801

3842

1785

1215

19802

50913

2172

1366

1303

1127

2017

2819

1155

662

12621

31111

1057

484

881

750

1368

1934

713

334

7521

18490

605

173

514

630

906

1388

347

170

4733

10969

363

78

352

351

624

697

163

107

2735

6236

202

54

332

153

395

333

68

53

1590

3501

116

41

239

90

253

172

21

26

958

1911

190

35

322

138

162

66

13

27

953

953

15776

7799

8018

7404

13300

15977

6298

4271

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
7.5
20.0
Total

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15194_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15194: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 7.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

5051

13921

21063 18818 12571

5609

1596

186

19

78843

7.5
9

12

11

71

350

369

114

17

953

12

17

183

307

373

56

958

22

80

378

645

445

15

1590

45

215

821

1290

351

2735

47

186

660

1792

1984

55

4733

41

169

567

1808

3953

980

7521

178

647

2036

5175

4533

52

12621

732

2347

6788

9096

838

19802

2255

7497

11013

1754

1833

3179

386

4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
22525

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

5405
10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15194_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 7.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

103

5783

12973

17196

15451

11949

7509

3976

2339

1303

212

29

Total Samples 78843

19

78843

1/10

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60

1/80
1/100

7.5
150

233

297

229

40

953

10

470

196

211

56

15

958

363

644

294

236

50

1590

40

1515

528

439

177

36

2735

10

1149

2179

602

513

201

78

4733

221

4125

1186

1177

594

143

64

11

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0
1
2.5
7521

2.0
1

61

4535

3439

1901

1672

470

211

242

81

12621

46

3587

7078

3235

2987

1440

556

446

349

45

16

17

19802

3488

8038

4515

3055

1550

705

601

365

187

17

102

2248

1286

837

408

258

121

80

52

12

1.5

1.0
22525

0.5
1

5405

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15194_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15194: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15138


56.361N, 0.311E

NEXT Grid Point 15138


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98 100.00 100.00 99.96
99.89
99.96 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.98
97.10
96.99
97.71
96.69
91.14
90.26
92.31
92.65
97.70
98.00
98.80
98.82
95.67
89.30
88.04
90.86
81.62
67.72
65.85
63.55
73.54
83.21
86.20
89.89
88.80
80.66
75.21
68.85
72.24
55.69
36.70
33.55
31.67
39.78
55.37
59.49
71.51
69.50
55.71
54.54
46.57
46.91
23.69
11.19
8.52
7.75
13.28
27.89
29.12
46.59
44.62
29.96
27.62
24.79
21.54
6.81
0.52
0.62
0.85
2.35
8.53
8.68
18.64
21.01
11.76
10.73
8.30
4.86
0.93
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
2.11
2.30
4.03
6.44
3.29
2.02
0.94
0.27
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.20
0.82
0.57
1.14
0.50
0.12
0.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.13
0.02
0.04
0.04
0.00
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
11.33
10.70
10.61
8.67
7.11
6.86
6.80
7.46
8.89
9.17
10.47
10.51
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
98.89
1.0
92.15
1.5
79.78
2.0
63.24
2.5
45.58
3.0
32.68
3.5
23.55
4.0
16.23
4.5
11.22
5.0
6.99
5.5*
4.35
10.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.65

Feb
100.00
99.46
90.84
72.64
55.09
40.18
28.86
20.25
14.76
10.12
6.75
4.12
0.00
2.50

Mar
100.00
100.00
93.05
73.95
54.42
39.44
26.49
17.69
10.46
5.00
1.81
0.67
0.00
2.36

Apr
100.00
97.87
79.34
53.16
30.36
18.47
10.98
6.98
4.60
2.90
1.70
1.03
0.00
1.79

May
100.00
92.77
57.60
31.97
15.89
6.81
1.48
0.33
0.12
0.06
0.03
0.00
0.00
1.28

Jun
100.00
88.58
54.14
24.65
9.77
3.67
1.10
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.17

Jul
100.00
89.21
46.34
20.21
8.56
3.51
1.25
0.25
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.10

Aug
100.00
93.41
56.44
29.41
13.16
6.32
3.06
1.27
0.31
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.26

Sep
100.00
97.58
76.40
50.22
29.78
18.27
10.35
6.13
4.07
2.48
1.59
1.13
0.00
1.74

Oct
100.00
99.90
85.27
60.82
37.78
24.47
14.51
8.23
4.59
3.18
2.14
1.52
0.00
1.99

Nov
100.00
99.92
90.65
70.42
51.70
36.62
24.55
13.81
8.10
4.68
2.78
1.82
0.00
2.29

Dec
100.00
99.87
88.47
74.87
57.65
42.95
30.27
20.82
13.96
9.08
5.72
3.75
0.00
2.52

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
5.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 5.5m to 10.5m.

Year
100.00
96.44
75.78
53.40
35.52
23.78
15.40
9.91
6.39
4.03
2.44
1.52
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

10.5

4.5

5.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.5m in 0.5m intervals and 5.5 to 10.5m
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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15138: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

14

78843

325

403

310

348

503

562

508

442

3401

78829

1354

968

954

1268

1900

1990

1795

1602

11831

75428

2282

1253

1630

1877

3194

3554

3160

2721

19671

63597

2445

1023

1182

2233

2977

4348

3193

2902

20303

43926

1328

416

653

1491

1997

3817

2780

1867

14349

23623

468

119

477

525

952

2010

1394

738

6683

9274

178

43

165

130

292

636

531

223

2198

2591

52

66

91

122

364

393

16

27

29

10624

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
23
24.50
2
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8407

4230

5375

7884

11867

16988

13468

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.5m in 0.5m intervals and 5.5 to 10.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

700

191

173

311

503

368

302

262

2810

78843

4686

899

1394

1075

3023

2268

1469

1471

16285

76033

4760

798

1683

1080

2876

2931

1753

1767

17648

59748

3994

601

1129

947

1970

2601

1521

1332

14095

42100

2262

321

757

630

1214

2021

1154

898

9257

28005

1364

105

577

495

857

1485

985

738

6606

18748

754

63

327

293

540

1172

687

494

4330

12142

434

49

260

211

369

744

469

236

2772

7812

309

31

252

98

302

445

288

138

1863

5040

175

21

209

63

205

294

180

110

1257

3177

125

169

29

73

161

107

54

723

1920

352

19

187

72

88

153

156

170

1197

1197

19915

3103

7117

5304

12020

14643

9071

7670

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
10.5
20.0
Total

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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15138: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.5m in 0.5m intervals and 5.5 to 10.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

14

3401

11831

19671 20303 14349

6683

2198

364

27

78843

1197

10.5
6

12

162

668

321

25

17

259

415

26

723

15

70

597

561

12

1257

19

275

1178

378

21

104

794

1704

146

2772

62

394

2049

1793

27

4330

40

236

1257

4233

832

6606

54

219

876

3419

4536

153

9257

216

842

2953

7859

2220

14095

517

2371

8010

6608

142

17648

1590

6710

7356

623

16285

1019

1641

141

5.5
5.0
4.5
1863

4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

2810
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.5m in 0.5m intervals and 5.5 to 10.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

76

3309

10019

16009

15916

13596

9343

5153

2749

1815

505

204

69

76

1/10

Total Samples 78843

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

10.5
300

475

265

119

32

1197

13

431

227

46

723

281

742

181

42

11

1257

1069

606

127

49

1863

314

1778

450

154

63

48

2177

1427

382

127

82

11

23

32

21

4330

863

3781

1164

383

160

120

47

57

15

6606

187

4335

2539

1130

334

191

301

135

53

14

34

9257

29

3493

5648

2133

1243

431

448

527

108

20

28

2490

7834

3408

1736

686

645

481

278

43

15

17648

1797

6719

4162

1526

887

524

439

173

42

13

16285

1481

777

324

86

21

28

10

5.5

5.0

4.5

4.0
2772

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.0
2

14095

1.5

1.0

0.5
2

76

2810

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15138_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15138: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15021


56.319N, 2.064E

NEXT Grid Point 15021


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.97
99.99
99.94
99.99
99.66
99.88
99.90
99.95 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.94
97.40
96.77
97.46
94.70
89.75
88.56
90.81
92.62
96.02
97.39
97.84
97.66
94.74
89.57
87.45
89.53
81.62
69.50
68.16
66.36
75.07
80.94
84.55
87.73
88.90
80.74
74.85
69.54
71.06
55.55
41.04
37.11
35.63
42.50
60.14
62.35
69.55
69.67
57.34
53.77
47.78
46.41
27.66
13.37
10.77
10.83
16.48
32.85
32.61
47.35
46.22
32.08
28.57
26.85
23.74
8.54
1.46
1.70
1.64
3.33
11.13
11.95
18.98
22.66
13.31
11.09
10.46
6.51
1.53
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.04
2.52
3.12
4.01
7.39
3.86
2.56
1.88
0.33
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.25
0.66
0.94
1.94
0.71
0.18
0.25
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.02
0.07
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
11.37
10.88
10.64
8.79
7.33
7.08
7.06
7.69
9.20
9.41
10.39
10.65
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
99.52
1.0
93.35
1.5
81.65
2.0
66.89
2.5
50.60
3.0
36.94
3.5
28.18
4.0
19.58
4.5
13.90
5.0
9.62
5.5
6.66
6.0*
4.63
11.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.84

Feb
100.00
100.00
91.27
73.05
57.38
44.32
32.88
24.23
17.27
12.47
9.03
5.68
3.20
0.00
2.64

Mar
100.00
100.00
94.53
76.80
57.19
42.14
30.48
21.66
14.79
8.99
4.35
1.85
0.81
0.00
2.52

Apr
100.00
98.22
80.66
55.47
35.64
21.56
12.77
8.00
5.41
3.40
2.02
1.19
0.66
0.00
1.87

May
100.00
91.98
62.25
35.60
17.51
8.46
3.69
0.85
0.16
0.10
0.06
0.03
0.00
0.00
1.36

Jun
100.00
90.82
58.78
28.29
13.38
6.54
2.92
1.05
0.20
0.11
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.27

Jul
100.00
91.04
52.79
27.19
12.50
5.90
3.20
1.12
0.19
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.22

Aug
100.00
95.06
61.38
33.18
18.48
9.58
4.97
2.78
1.24
0.49
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.38

Sep
100.00
98.36
80.08
57.16
38.83
24.66
15.65
9.37
5.83
3.73
2.48
1.79
0.97
0.00
1.95

Oct
100.00
99.60
87.50
65.66
43.13
28.97
18.42
11.02
7.14
4.83
2.90
1.94
1.18
0.00
2.14

Nov
100.00
100.00
92.70
73.69
56.44
41.40
29.38
18.87
10.29
6.10
3.87
2.67
1.71
0.00
2.45

Dec
100.00
99.66
90.05
77.57
61.02
46.07
34.18
24.48
16.83
11.26
7.38
4.67
3.43
0.00
2.67

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
6.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 6.0m to 11.5m.

Year
100.00
97.00
78.69
57.02
39.77
27.43
18.72
12.58
8.20
5.42
3.45
2.19
1.37
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

20%

NE

10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

11.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m
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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15021: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
9

12

48

78843

531

420

330

394

481

671

706

568

4101

78795

1095

920

932

1143

1588

2007

1817

1533

11035

74694

2340

1233

1316

1755

2679

3328

3084

2715

18450

63659

2511

911

1473

2151

2756

4114

3114

2887

19917

45209

1447

430

897

1762

1906

3502

2780

2075

14799

25292

541

103

529

856

919

2056

1614

832

7450

10493

193

45

299

221

281

600

638

208

2485

3043

40

29

28

56

78

161

128

525

558

13

12

33

33

13931

10963

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
8
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8707

4079

5815

8318

10672

16358

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

641

179

195

161

367

293

246

284

2366

78843

4282

675

1079

882

2496

1990

1325

1708

14437

76477

4334

645

1614

1007

2780

2765

1696

2243

17084

62040

3637

466

1171

898

1776

2360

1478

1816

13602

44956

2015

350

688

726

1212

1966

1310

1463

9730

31354

1345

125

487

524

735

1442

1080

1128

6866

21624

735

78

293

385

446

1243

852

808

4840

14758

415

33

258

294

302

916

730

502

3450

9918

257

32

243

165

226

570

419

286

2198

6468

175

21

186

115

160

365

314

216

1552

4270

107

14

197

71

72

220

207

104

992

2718

79

97

56

41

156

139

69

642

1726

252

84

37

55

121

270

262

1084

1084

18274

2626

6592

5321

10668

14407

10066

10889

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
11.5
20.0
Total

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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15021: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

48

4101

11035

18450 19917 14799

7450

2485

525

33

78843

107

507

429

30

1084

13

98

477

51

642

33

367

563

27

992

101

919

518

10

1552

36

357

1505

292

2198

16

134

1116

2070

108

3450

12

110

454

2671

1574

17

4840

66

407

1512

4194

677

6866

47

266

1033

3934

4324

125

9730

244

1083

3142

7294

1829

664

2692

7539

6034

151

17084

14

2102

5700

6110

510

14437

28

1034

1212

91

11.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
13602

1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

2366
10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15021_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 11.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

40

2276

8381

15449

15728

14382

10807

6307

3252

1306

509

259

88

Total Samples 78843

57

1/10

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

11.5
29

565

292

135

46

17

1084

279

307

44

11

642

757

190

35

992

183

1167

167

31

12

1127

859

154

40

2198

261

2474

566

101

28

12

3450

33

1662

2401

431

130

50

34

47

29

18

4840

617

3908

1482

336

226

92

71

86

34

6866

134

3771

3736

1085

373

229

256

91

36

14

9730

32

2743

5871

2425

983

481

584

331

111

28

10

13602

24

1867

7659

4070

1545

590

693

505

89

27

12

1124

5687

4659

1277

786

450

336

94

18

1126

794

242

88

47

27

6.0

5.5

5.0
1552

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.0

1.5
17084

1.0
14437

0.5
2

40

2366

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15021_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15021: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15318


55.850N, 0.911W

NEXT Grid Point 15318


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.94
99.99
99.96 100.00 100.00 99.97
99.97
99.98
96.50
95.27
97.82
95.92
88.72
87.02
88.48
89.62
96.56
96.94
97.92
97.83
94.04
86.88
82.95
89.33
79.54
59.22
58.94
57.36
67.15
77.36
83.25
87.67
83.60
76.05
70.04
63.51
68.20
48.45
26.96
24.03
22.23
29.94
45.56
53.08
67.76
62.57
48.43
45.88
40.56
42.75
18.70
6.33
3.60
3.59
7.01
19.32
21.35
40.37
39.90
24.02
24.27
18.83
16.34
3.37
0.01
0.06
0.13
0.67
6.27
5.96
13.56
17.98
8.91
8.35
5.06
2.70
0.17
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
1.37
1.49
2.30
4.44
2.15
1.23
0.35
0.19
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.55
0.08
0.31
0.23
0.00
0.05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.18
0.00
0.10
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
10.63
9.88
10.10
8.10
6.44
6.22
6.19
6.76
8.15
8.54
9.84
9.88
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
98.52
1.0
85.58
1.5
67.41
2.0
47.41
2.5
31.04
3.0
20.28
3.5
13.02
4.0
7.70
4.5*
3.63
8.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.14

Feb
100.00
99.46
85.45
61.88
41.66
26.92
17.74
11.29
7.56
5.14
0.00
2.07

Mar
100.00
99.52
85.57
62.53
42.47
26.96
15.21
7.78
2.99
1.22
0.00
1.97

Apr
100.00
96.56
72.74
40.22
20.40
11.31
6.66
4.00
2.13
0.90
0.00
1.53

May
100.00
90.17
47.36
22.32
9.52
2.27
0.09
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.10

Jun
100.00
83.16
43.43
14.81
3.94
0.74
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.98

Jul
100.00
83.30
34.54
10.71
3.38
0.96
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.92

Aug
100.00
87.63
43.98
16.85
7.22
2.36
0.46
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.04

Sep
100.00
94.01
64.74
35.74
18.73
9.26
5.08
3.04
1.96
1.16
0.00
1.42

Oct
100.00
98.34
77.35
47.98
26.35
13.67
7.10
3.63
2.69
1.69
0.00
1.66

Nov
100.00
99.18
83.78
57.85
37.41
23.63
12.96
5.93
2.78
1.33
0.00
1.88

Dec
100.00
98.36
82.68
63.59
46.91
30.20
18.88
11.81
7.09
3.93
0.00
2.09

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
4.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 4.5m to 8.5m.

Year
100.00
93.98
67.13
41.72
25.38
14.89
8.67
5.02
2.88
1.56
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15318_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

8.5

3.5

4.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.5m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15318_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15318: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

13

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
456

493

512

519

721

731

646

610

4688

78830

1564

1024

1225

1613

2190

2516

2263

1785

14180

74142

2495

1547

1700

1893

3455

4172

3762

2754

21778

59962

1920

1076

896

1815

2850

4550

3626

2511

19244

38184

874

370

504

981

1719

3617

2628

1221

11914

18940

347

142

321

229

793

1808

1267

425

5332

7026

73

28

71

60

198

495

413

175

1513

1694

14

16

42

53

30

159

181

12

22

22

17938

14673

9517

78843

3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

7745

4683

5230

7114

11943

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15318_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

1211

368

393

635

696

418

569

454

4744

78843

5291

1865

1874

1840

3399

2645

2449

1806

21169

74099

5258

1417

1898

1278

2758

2997

2648

1785

20039

52930

3168

1085

1076

837

1808

2191

1662

1054

12881

32891

1757

501

678

681

1089

1557

1336

673

8272

20010

826

186

384

416

727

1078

901

385

4903

11738

520

83

281

234

502

564

469

225

2878

6835

296

73

211

90

298

277

275

163

1683

3957

226

25

166

54

164

135

184

88

1042

2274

353

50

364

66

75

69

128

127

1232

1232

18906

5653

7325

6131

11516

11931

10621

6760

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
8.5
20.0
Total

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15318_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15318: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

13

4688

14180

21778 19244 11914

5332

1513

159

22

78843

75

501

484

145

22

1232

8.5
4.5
2

142

393

478

13

1042

16

44

376

815

423

1683

24

259

874

1595

116

2878

28

141

767

2244

1706

10

4903

48

157

637

2364

4752

312

8272

223

778

2436

6244

3189

10

698

2492

7927

8660

261

20039

2012

7910

10349

893

21169

1692

2799

246

4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
12881

1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

4744
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15318_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

97

5799

13210

17798

15643

11505

7050

3641

1951

1583

329

93

61

58

1/10

Total Samples 78843

24

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

8.5
244

287

441

187

66

1232

42

599

237

107

47

10

1042

564

659

282

115

50

10

1683

84

1716

472

397

119

86

11

1704

1969

586

389

132

79

317

4455

1490

1172

469

155

125

30

79

4864

3342

1934

1417

449

223

380

34

4016

7548

3270

2416

1217

601

388

3599

7888

4398

2547

1231

597

462

2164

1221

660

238

143

87

68

4.5

4.0

3.5
3

2878

12

4903

29

16

8272

115

33

15

28

12881

421

80

11

210

204

11

13

61

3.0

2.5

2.0

1.5
22

20039

21169

1.0

0.5
1

97

4744

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15318_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15318: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15143


55.565N, 2.250E

NEXT Grid Point 15143


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 99.97
99.96
99.72 100.00 99.97
99.98 100.00 100.00 99.97
99.96
97.76
97.61
97.30
95.74
90.22
87.39
90.39
93.22
97.16
97.76
98.46
97.36
95.01
88.90
87.02
88.36
81.96
66.42
67.31
63.71
74.89
80.52
85.99
89.26
88.22
80.16
71.76
67.94
68.81
54.70
33.46
30.48
31.31
38.53
57.53
60.67
68.83
68.86
54.32
49.13
43.87
42.25
24.48
10.41
8.63
7.89
13.40
28.89
32.34
45.48
45.52
29.27
25.06
21.53
19.94
6.25
1.11
1.25
0.73
2.57
10.11
9.76
18.67
21.33
11.47
9.79
8.15
4.32
1.45
0.01
0.08
0.07
0.03
2.16
2.67
4.72
6.68
3.32
2.00
1.80
0.18
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.14
0.64
0.80
1.28
0.56
0.09
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.00
0.06
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
10.95
10.46
10.25
8.61
6.95
6.81
6.74
7.48
8.96
9.31
10.37
10.51
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
99.16
1.0
90.21
1.5
75.69
2.0
57.89
2.5
40.93
3.0
29.98
3.5
21.97
4.0
14.00
4.5
9.80
5.0
6.25
5.5*
3.74
10.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.52

Feb
100.00
100.00
87.84
67.30
50.18
36.67
24.56
17.78
12.34
7.78
4.74
3.39
0.00
2.34

Mar
100.00
100.00
91.65
68.64
49.81
35.48
24.50
15.82
9.73
4.69
1.97
0.84
0.00
2.27

Apr
100.00
98.02
76.88
49.75
29.28
17.30
9.87
5.98
3.86
2.02
1.11
0.57
0.00
1.72

May
100.00
90.56
57.26
29.31
14.46
6.11
1.96
0.48
0.06
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.26

Jun
100.00
90.00
54.01
23.97
10.20
5.42
2.24
0.65
0.28
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.19

Jul
100.00
89.47
48.09
22.96
10.02
4.77
2.26
0.67
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.15

Aug
100.00
93.10
56.93
29.82
15.31
7.86
4.03
2.05
0.63
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.30

Sep
100.00
97.38
76.76
53.10
33.78
20.65
12.05
7.30
4.34
2.73
1.45
0.82
0.00
1.80

Oct
100.00
99.57
84.82
60.02
39.44
23.71
13.10
7.65
5.21
2.72
1.51
1.12
0.00
1.97

Nov
100.00
100.00
90.23
68.66
51.59
37.19
24.55
14.91
7.90
4.95
3.15
1.62
0.00
2.29

Dec
100.00
99.46
87.41
72.55
55.27
41.11
28.43
18.50
11.81
7.18
4.17
2.23
0.00
2.42

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
5.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 5.5m to 10.5m.

Year
100.00
96.36
75.08
51.72
34.69
23.02
14.75
9.44
5.83
3.47
2.01
1.18
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

10.5

4.5

5.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.5m in 0.5m intervals and 5.5 to 10.5m
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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15143: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
5

28

78843

398

344

403

408

504

679

662

506

3904

78815

1139

1002

1000

1243

1704

2153

1810

1656

11707

74911

2410

1354

1570

1826

3014

3894

3394

2918

20380

63204

2288

970

1399

1889

2716

4391

3396

2698

19747

42824

1263

539

740

1413

1763

3526

2776

2011

14031

23077

426

77

371

579

834

1841

1628

672

6428

9046

145

47

229

153

232

537

584

246

2173

2618

30

26

28

13

24

52

147

106

426

445

10

19

19

14406

10823

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
1
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8104

4366

5746

7525

10795

17078

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.5m in 0.5m intervals and 5.5 to 10.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

738

241

236

181

518

329

200

423

2866

78843

4728

945

1484

978

2665

2399

1664

1917

16780

75977

4769

1011

1696

856

2654

3097

2042

2292

18417

59197

3442

660

1000

712

1573

2386

1797

1862

13432

40780

1867

407

589

578

1098

1703

1477

1476

9195

27348

1083

237

456

375

629

1455

1266

1026

6527

18153

554

92

242

261

325

998

1029

684

4185

11626

308

58

240

131

276

696

690

448

2847

7441

222

43

243

84

159

339

458

311

1859

4594

106

31

124

46

96

271

319

154

1147

2735

103

27

125

25

26

95

158

98

657

1588

211

41

30

11

19

59

275

285

931

931

18131

3793

6465

4238

10038

13827

11375

10976

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
10.5
20.0
Total

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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15143: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.5m in 0.5m intervals and 5.5 to 10.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

28

3904

11707

20380 19747 14031

6428

2173

426

19

78843

90

454

367

19

931

14

144

458

41

657

10.5
5.5
5.0
1

44

412

671

15

1147

221

1219

405

1859

68

666

1966

146

2847

36

253

2144

1715

33

4185

32

201

1100

4420

764

6527

29

122

874

3511

4545

112

9195

152

712

3028

7681

1853

592

2693

8448

6561

123

1914

6618

7682

561

16780

23

1210

1524

108

2866

4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
13432

1.5
18417

1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15143_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.5m in 0.5m intervals and 5.5 to 10.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

14

21

2728

9826

17134

16784

14409

9313

4878

2221

910

329

175

55

Total Samples 78843

46

1/10

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

10.5
201

365

230

94

34

931

16

465

130

40

657

265

752

99

29

1147

1121

595

107

26

1859

370

1991

347

110

29

5.5

5.0

4.5

4.0
2847

3.5
2

30

2017

1653

356

85

26

4185

10

756

4056

1069

366

135

38

35

33

14

13

6527

121

4189

3198

874

339

202

104

63

57

15

32

9195

10

2802

6194

2215

1121

412

332

229

81

28

13432

10

1957

8615

4023

1742

715

662

502

128

44

15

1358

6890

5329

1445

736

455

381

152

31

1360

966

255

147

66

33

3.0

2.5

2.0

1.5
18417

1.0
16780

0.5
14

21

2866

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseamid97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15143_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Central North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15143: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15321


55.391N, 0.263E

NEXT Grid Point 15321


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 99.99 100.00 99.99
99.69
99.94
99.96
99.98 100.00 99.98 100.00 99.96
97.00
96.38
97.43
96.17
87.44
85.20
87.94
89.87
96.27
97.30
97.85
97.88
93.87
87.73
85.32
89.89
79.89
57.28
57.98
56.24
67.03
78.15
83.67
88.52
85.19
76.34
70.79
65.37
67.66
48.97
26.47
22.75
22.87
31.18
49.10
54.56
67.75
63.74
49.16
46.43
39.60
41.89
18.95
7.02
5.63
4.24
8.31
22.70
23.27
42.27
41.98
25.11
25.42
18.30
15.22
4.86
0.31
0.46
0.60
0.58
7.22
5.92
15.88
19.12
9.45
8.88
6.33
2.88
0.63
0.01
0.08
0.00
0.00
1.39
1.90
3.98
5.59
2.62
1.43
0.72
0.31
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.55
0.17
0.66
0.33
0.13
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.10
0.00
0.12
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
10.75
10.03
10.05
8.17
6.41
6.22
6.20
6.82
8.38
8.68
10.08
10.09
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
98.46
1.0
87.46
1.5
70.49
2.0
52.26
2.5
35.74
3.0
25.90
3.5
17.44
4.0
11.18
4.5
6.90
5.0*
3.93
9.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.32

Feb
100.00
99.92
86.82
64.15
43.77
30.54
20.26
13.49
9.62
6.16
4.58
0.00
2.18

Mar
100.00
99.84
88.12
64.37
46.13
30.50
18.64
10.82
5.32
2.63
1.08
0.00
2.09

Apr
100.00
97.36
73.22
44.62
23.94
13.71
7.86
4.57
3.10
1.87
0.85
0.00
1.60

May
100.00
89.68
50.21
25.50
11.26
3.79
1.05
0.18
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.16

Jun
100.00
85.85
44.54
18.52
7.21
2.52
0.74
0.19
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.05

Jul
100.00
85.72
39.98
14.39
6.10
2.03
0.94
0.27
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.00

Aug
100.00
89.09
48.83
21.81
9.87
5.02
1.27
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.13

Sep
100.00
95.22
70.19
43.36
24.97
12.84
7.52
4.66
2.84
1.62
0.76
0.00
1.57

Oct
100.00
99.00
80.31
52.02
32.15
16.13
7.87
4.59
2.60
1.81
1.46
0.00
1.76

Nov
100.00
99.52
86.17
62.45
43.44
29.88
18.53
9.71
5.60
3.07
1.76
0.00
2.07

Dec
100.00
98.75
84.84
66.44
50.73
36.11
23.55
15.59
9.95
5.65
3.20
0.00
2.25

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
5.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 5.0m to 9.5m.

Year
100.00
94.83
69.94
45.57
29.25
18.18
11.13
6.76
4.16
2.46
1.45
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

20%

NE

10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

9.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.0m in 0.5m intervals and 5.0 to 9.5m
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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15321: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
1

10

31

78843

442

416

401

531

773

894

759

583

4799

78812

1349

1055

1300

1635

2121

2341

2138

1886

13825

74013

2567

1409

1655

1886

3279

4095

3703

2833

21427

60188

2022

991

921

1786

2739

4422

3577

2507

18965

38761

1091

518

451

934

1587

3472

2781

1513

12347

19796

411

119

252

254

773

1642

1395

536

5382

7449

114

66

168

71

190

502

443

255

1809

2067

17

16

24

33

77

56

230

258

28

28

17411

14881

10176

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
8
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8022

4597

5163

7104

11489

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.0m in 0.5m intervals and 5.0 to 9.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

991

246

394

464

628

360

384

609

4076

78843

5446

1253

1819

1344

3381

2441

2028

1911

19623

74767

5458

1116

1679

916

2853

3056

2271

1868

19217

55144

3735

864

844

675

1742

2228

1530

1245

12863

35927

2199

515

546

531

1155

1622

1317

848

8733

23064

1107

272

314

326

639

1296

1005

594

5553

14331

631

133

241

138

463

808

658

373

3445

8778

368

76

124

98

310

468

397

215

2056

5333

251

37

125

39

179

330

223

157

1341

3277

164

49

106

23

56

124

165

106

793

1936

368

97

188

43

49

84

160

154

1143

1143

20718

4658

6380

4597

11455

12817

10138

8080

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
9.5
20.0
Total

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Central North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15321: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.0m in 0.5m intervals and 5.0 to 9.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

31

4799

13825

21427 18965 12347

5382

1809

230

28

78843

15

234

662

204

28

1143

58

302

408

22

793

9.5
5.0
4.5
1

20

158

670

485

1341

12

39

486

1300

212

2056

35

233

1382

1752

39

3445

32

126

926

3518

946

5553

50

170

800

3044

4503

164

8733

223

706

2843

6977

2100

14

698

2627

8624

7140

127

2157

8087

8792

583

25

1667

2192

192

4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
1
2.0
12863

1.5
19217

1.0
19623

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

4076
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 5.0m in 0.5m intervals and 5.0 to 9.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

120

4255

12161

17388

16027

12564

8015

4048

2198

1487

398

82

33

63

1/10

Total Samples 78843

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60

1/80
1/100

9.5
50

438

351

201

99

1143

298

332

120

38

19

882

296

93

51

495

1163

220

116

57

42

2069

822

340

92

67

1055

3077

753

361

179

62

26

23

10

182

4471

2031

1014

499

224

200

74

16

12

32

3655

4744

1823

1394

419

262

370

97

26

10

30

12863

21

2864

8224

3511

1906

1029

684

525

350

76

14

19217

2287

7933

4933

2087

1081

566

428

206

78

17

1947

1325

386

115

63

44

31

30

13

5.0
793

4.5
1341

4.0
2056

3.5
7

3445

3.0
5553

2.5
8733

2.0

1.5

1.0
19623

0.5
2

120

4076

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Central North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15321: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Southern North Sea

60N

55N
1544715327

15571

Southern
North
Sea

15631 15512

15697

50N

10W

5W

5E

Grid Point 15327


54.438N, 2.513E

NEXT Grid Point 15327


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 99.99
99.91
99.76
99.60
99.76
99.90
99.97
99.99
99.98
99.99
99.90
96.00
95.44
96.19
93.90
86.32
85.42
88.00
91.99
95.25
96.04
97.42
96.39
93.18
85.06
83.06
85.15
77.33
57.84
58.92
57.29
66.94
77.85
82.60
86.74
82.68
75.06
64.75
58.34
60.52
44.63
26.92
25.73
22.77
33.34
51.31
56.38
66.34
62.44
47.71
41.81
33.49
33.33
16.85
6.77
5.48
4.74
11.89
22.79
26.73
39.41
41.34
23.67
19.62
15.21
11.65
3.91
0.25
0.59
0.39
1.46
6.33
6.86
14.97
17.74
8.21
6.22
4.20
1.51
0.32
0.01
0.26
0.00
0.19
0.83
1.91
3.98
4.87
2.02
0.91
1.02
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.39
0.43
0.91
0.31
0.00
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.00
0.04
0.02
0.00
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
10.06
9.41
9.28
7.86
6.34
6.31
6.23
7.06
8.33
8.82
9.90
9.87
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
97.21
1.0
81.32
1.5
56.72
2.0
38.30
2.5
25.18
3.0
15.06
3.5
8.01
4.0*
4.44
8.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 1.90

Feb
100.00
98.76
76.31
47.51
31.07
19.32
11.50
6.19
3.59
0.00
1.74

Mar
100.00
99.00
78.55
49.93
30.19
16.10
8.41
3.12
0.94
0.00
1.68

Apr
100.00
96.80
63.91
32.60
13.68
6.95
3.54
1.51
0.29
0.00
1.34

May
100.00
86.97
43.96
15.57
4.86
0.94
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.02

Jun
100.00
88.01
40.12
12.87
4.15
1.05
0.32
0.23
0.00
0.00
0.99

Jul
100.00
88.62
38.62
11.28
3.54
1.02
0.25
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.96

Aug
100.00
89.21
45.19
21.15
9.08
3.00
0.81
0.31
0.00
0.00
1.10

Sep
100.00
96.67
67.39
36.94
18.56
8.30
4.21
2.07
0.69
0.00
1.42

Oct
100.00
97.58
74.41
43.71
23.54
11.58
4.74
2.69
1.64
0.00
1.56

Nov
100.00
99.20
80.68
56.44
36.27
21.88
11.47
5.63
3.01
0.00
1.84

Dec
100.00
98.06
79.57
57.47
40.13
24.82
13.99
7.29
3.06
0.00
1.89

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
4.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 4.0m to 8.0m.

Year
100.00
94.64
64.09
36.79
21.07
11.64
6.17
3.07
1.46
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15327_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

15%

NE

10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 8.0m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15327_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15327: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
14

15

12

77

78843

678

514

486

641

712

824

788

657

5300

78766

1451

1150

1351

1559

2103

2480

2238

1956

14288

73466

2611

1714

1850

1960

3055

4267

3706

2396

21559

59178

1923

1083

1292

1596

2524

4504

3637

2398

18957

37619

875

467

499

964

1536

3484

2918

1444

12187

18662

341

150

332

237

585

1521

1251

468

4885

6475

53

56

55

71

209

343

372

188

1347

1590

21

14

16

35

97

42

229

243

13

14

9562

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

7967

5163

5874

7041

10744

17470

15022

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 8.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

962

404

375

352

810

433

254

639

4229

78843

5871

1904

2197

1264

3972

3219

2350

3310

24087

74614

4474

1321

1962

1219

2978

3594

2956

3018

21522

50527

1665

594

938

695

1668

2575

2349

1910

12394

29005

671

288

368

455

920

1849

1810

1071

7432

16611

299

101

270

306

477

1221

1065

572

4311

9179

205

90

168

98

273

656

623

333

2446

4868

125

35

129

53

205

312

262

149

1270

2422

110

43

82

18

85

191

367

256

1152

1152

14382

4780

6489

4460

11388

14050

12036

11258

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
8.0
20.0
Total

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15327_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15327: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 8.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

77

5300

14288

21559 18957 12187

4885

1347

229

13

78843

158

752

226

13

1152

18

799

451

1270

8.0
4.0
1
3.5
1

368

1941

132

2446

93

2568

1634

12

4311

59

1453

5573

340

7432

12

130

1332

7494

3413

13

12394

405

2209

9571

9091

245

19

2882

9946

10418

822

24087

57

2001

1996

174

4229

3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
21522

1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15327_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 8.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

53

4340

15383

25867

19512

9070

3023

902

402

183

54

18

Total Samples 78843

27

1/10

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

8.0

395

440

235

82

1152

103

1007

145

14

1270

1457

949

27

2446

666

3453

171

11

4311

126

5312

1884

73

13

13

7432

35

4219

7103

848

107

36

27

15

28

2883

12836

4431

890

217

107

41

30

14

13

2095

11055

8302

1914

414

68

91

67

49

27

2217

1405

381

80

21

36

32

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.0

12394

1.5

27

21522

1.0

24087

0.5

53

4229

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15327_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15327: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15447


54.332N, 1.229E

NEXT Grid Point 15447


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98
99.99
99.98
99.91
99.69
99.82
99.88
99.95
99.99
99.98
99.96
99.93
95.86
95.60
96.53
94.47
88.09
87.52
87.41
91.65
94.89
95.98
97.19
97.10
93.51
86.30
83.49
84.78
78.07
58.59
59.69
58.47
65.85
77.56
83.73
86.73
84.53
75.59
64.63
61.05
62.89
45.00
27.10
24.97
23.30
32.13
49.48
55.86
66.56
63.90
47.99
41.27
34.61
34.96
18.36
6.78
4.81
4.14
10.29
23.23
25.32
40.31
41.35
23.72
20.14
14.66
11.88
3.81
0.55
0.35
0.67
1.27
6.23
5.84
15.42
19.24
8.31
6.16
4.15
1.63
0.29
0.00
0.02
0.00
0.07
0.74
1.82
3.95
5.20
1.99
0.78
1.02
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.28
0.22
0.64
0.25
0.10
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.00
0.12
0.03
0.00
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
10.11
9.53
9.39
7.94
6.42
6.32
6.25
6.93
8.30
8.72
9.93
10.01
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
97.44
1.0
82.07
1.5
59.65
2.0
40.71
2.5
28.62
3.0
18.99
3.5
10.97
4.0
6.47
4.5*
3.12
8.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.01

Feb
100.00
99.24
78.96
52.08
34.73
22.37
14.28
8.30
5.27
3.94
0.00
1.87

Mar
100.00
99.03
81.64
53.93
35.70
19.70
11.47
5.69
2.45
1.22
0.00
1.80

Apr
100.00
96.56
67.04
36.31
18.78
8.73
5.36
2.81
1.41
0.29
0.00
1.43

May
100.00
87.57
45.73
20.73
6.90
2.27
0.34
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.07

Jun
100.00
87.02
41.50
15.60
4.86
1.81
0.45
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.00

Jul
100.00
87.74
38.96
12.06
3.87
1.48
0.66
0.24
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.98

Aug
100.00
87.57
45.13
20.73
9.37
3.69
0.84
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.09

Sep
100.00
94.69
67.36
39.15
21.08
10.51
5.32
2.85
1.56
0.68
0.00
1.47

Oct
100.00
97.68
75.66
45.68
26.38
12.38
5.69
3.32
2.32
1.40
0.00
1.61

Nov
100.00
98.97
82.04
57.47
39.78
26.30
14.49
8.02
4.35
2.19
0.00
1.93

Dec
100.00
97.76
81.15
60.56
44.06
29.06
18.62
10.72
5.72
2.88
0.00
2.02

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
4.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 4.5m to 8.5m.

Year
100.00
94.23
65.51
39.42
23.80
13.87
8.01
4.41
2.45
1.30
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15447_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

8.5

3.5

4.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.5m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15447_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15447: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

16

57

78843

526

487

448

582

810

834

784

590

5061

78786

1554

1098

1192

1638

2125

2399

2269

1854

14129

73725

2778

1612

1788

2065

3181

4330

3695

2312

21761

59596

2167

1267

1069

1604

2769

4449

3588

2217

19130

37835

1101

466

494

909

1684

3255

2929

1315

12153

18705

354

171

283

212

659

1506

1202

593

4980

6552

94

78

66

75

193

300

387

183

1376

1572

13

19

15

29

69

23

171

196

11

24

25

9099

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
7
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8596

5207

5346

7095

11452

17109

14939

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

1088

409

458

477

783

292

314

726

4547

78843

6034

1611

2296

1395

3509

2712

2255

2834

22646

74296

5515

1275

1632

1232

2955

3244

2428

2287

20568

51650

2857

667

763

714

1756

1939

1892

1733

12321

31082

1272

341

381

567

1047

1511

1649

1061

7829

18761

649

188

213

321

599

990

1021

634

4615

10932

285

90

135

128

344

626

707

526

2841

6317

187

49

108

47

191

299

332

334

1547

3476

141

36

98

44

106

151

171

160

907

1929

197

101

63

20

40

64

224

313

1022

1022

18225

4767

6147

4945

11330

11828

10993

10608

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
8.5
20.0
Total

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15447_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15447: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

57

5061

14129

21761 19130 12153

4980

1376

171

24

78843

215

616

161

24

1022

40

425

435

907

8.5
4.5
4.0
1

210

1059

268

1547

10

47

924

1809

49

2841

40

416

2946

1204

4615

55

266

2132

5113

258

7829

68

413

1979

7161

2690

10

677

2575

8620

8469

224

20568

15

2354

8783

10595

898

22646

39

1958

2300

250

3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
12321

1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

4547
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15447_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

40

5139

14869

20124

17450

11701

5758

2210

847

507

121

40

14

Total Samples 78843

21

1/10

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

8.5
235

409

227

142

1022

19

654

205

28

907

500

891

136

16

1547

36

2041

650

87

18

2841

1346

2692

411

115

29

12

4615

248

5133

1645

556

171

51

18

46

4330

5009

1562

893

290

75

58

36

20

39

3610

9493

3481

2122

938

357

233

195

56

13

10

2864

9785

5647

2317

1033

416

372

137

50

17

2236

1422

395

127

87

114

68

33

22

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5
7829

2.0
12321

1.5
21

20568

1.0
22646

0.5
2

40

4547

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15447_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15447: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15571


53.587N, 1.422E

NEXT Grid Point 15571


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
99.97 100.00 100.00 99.89
99.75
99.57
99.79
99.90
99.98 100.00 99.97
99.96
99.90
96.25
95.16
95.77
94.66
87.99
87.76
87.66
90.62
93.87
95.82
97.25
96.79
93.28
84.61
82.11
83.97
75.83
62.94
59.44
61.23
64.51
75.22
83.31
87.31
83.21
75.26
62.30
57.36
58.95
43.38
29.65
25.12
24.71
30.98
48.64
55.48
64.55
63.14
46.96
37.55
31.33
29.32
15.69
7.45
4.23
3.94
10.17
20.39
24.89
38.90
40.55
21.99
17.35
11.35
9.10
3.37
0.27
0.00
0.12
1.58
4.58
6.48
13.13
17.22
7.03
4.78
4.07
1.05
0.23
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.45
1.40
3.21
4.55
1.64
0.72
0.63
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.28
0.17
0.75
0.21
0.13
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.00
0.18
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
9.77
9.15
8.98
7.77
6.60
6.30
6.33
6.87
8.04
8.68
9.75
9.85
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
95.88
1.0
71.05
1.5
45.02
2.0
26.85
2.5
14.73
3.0
6.28
3.5*
2.45
7.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 1.57

Feb
100.00
97.23
66.31
38.67
21.30
11.02
6.80
4.32
0.00
1.49

Mar
100.00
95.68
67.49
37.12
18.18
9.14
3.66
1.36
0.00
1.42

Apr
100.00
93.31
54.75
25.10
10.39
4.69
2.10
0.53
0.00
1.20

May
100.00
84.76
39.62
15.21
3.15
0.30
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.96

Jun
100.00
82.39
32.19
8.47
1.88
0.05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.88

Jul
100.00
83.40
30.01
7.14
1.69
0.43
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.87

Aug
100.00
81.77
35.02
14.83
5.65
1.33
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.95

Sep
100.00
90.49
56.65
25.88
11.73
4.97
2.02
0.77
0.00
1.22

Oct
100.00
95.16
64.60
32.98
16.19
6.74
3.21
1.64
0.00
1.36

Nov
100.00
97.73
72.36
46.11
26.10
11.87
5.19
2.64
0.00
1.56

Dec
100.00
96.49
72.79
49.03
29.03
15.43
6.99
3.18
0.00
1.62

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
3.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 3.5m to 7.0m.

Year
100.00
91.15
55.16
28.75
14.31
6.71
3.00
1.39
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15571_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

20%

NE

10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.5m in 0.5m intervals and 3.5 to 7.0m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15571_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15571: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
7

14

16

11

13

81

78843

648

544

529

587

710

846

678

672

5214

78762

1681

1168

1332

1731

2058

2341

2207

1690

14208

73548

2638

1938

1930

2087

3214

4644

3498

2367

22316

59340

2157

1529

1259

1673

2743

4668

3700

1960

19689

37024

1127

556

549

969

1519

3299

2596

1176

11791

17335

306

225

240

178

581

1226

1044

454

4254

5544

67

63

54

39

158

244

346

151

1122

1290

14

16

11

83

11

140

168

21

28

28

14186

8488

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
4
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8649

6035

5902

7278

11015

17290

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15571_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.5m in 0.5m intervals and 3.5 to 7.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

1537

670

843

692

1109

479

438

1212

6980

78843

7173

2584

2769

1711

4004

3633

2862

3635

28371

71863

4678

1721

1671

1466

2649

3335

2796

2512

20828

43492

1834

797

807

865

1473

1995

2139

1471

11381

22664

844

343

403

455

717

1205

1167

862

5996

11283

351

140

168

148

372

525

590

629

2923

5287

261

106

119

56

139

134

201

253

1269

2364

287

139

124

34

25

152

325

1095

1095

16965

6500

6904

5402

10497

11331

10345

10899

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
7.0
20.0
Total

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15571_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15571: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.5m in 0.5m intervals and 3.5 to 7.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

81

5214

14208

22316 19689 11791

4254

1122

140

28

78843

372

551

135

28

1095

169

692

402

1269

23

910

1826

162

2923

18

571

4134

1266

64

567

4935

5718

97

11381

234

1411

6510

11823

849

20828

21

2593

8794

14630

2331

60

2387

3939

590

7.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
5996

2.0
1.5
1.0
28371

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

6980
10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15571_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.5m in 0.5m intervals and 3.5 to 7.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

130

8450

20655

24996

15885

6106

1736

492

251

90

21

14

Total Samples 78843

13

1/10

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

7.0

235

456

237

152

15

1095

170

687

371

24

14

1269

1627

1138

144

564

4450

862

96

10

5996

91

6976

3414

748

103

19

20

11381

54

5840

10407

2715

1370

321

82

14

12

20828

4879

12718

6142

3284

993

209

59

27

38

10

10

28371

3516

1998

903

225

73

36

55

27

3.5

3.0

2923

2.5

2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5

130

6980

0.0

0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15571_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15571: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15631


53.529N, 0.797E

NEXT Grid Point 15631


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 99.97
99.90
99.65
99.87
99.90
99.97
99.99
99.98
99.99
99.93
96.29
96.14
95.94
94.97
88.42
88.04
87.78
91.71
94.71
96.03
97.96
97.15
93.74
85.73
83.36
84.88
76.91
63.01
58.32
61.50
65.45
75.73
83.82
88.24
84.36
75.90
62.37
58.65
59.83
43.88
28.65
24.14
24.59
29.98
47.84
54.57
65.46
64.10
46.93
37.87
31.98
30.43
16.36
6.51
3.70
3.38
9.74
18.86
23.96
38.56
41.10
21.82
17.36
11.65
8.99
3.24
0.15
0.00
0.00
1.22
4.77
5.83
12.84
17.52
6.95
4.59
3.69
0.88
0.11
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.19
1.27
2.99
4.33
1.50
0.76
0.49
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.27
0.17
0.69
0.20
0.13
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.00
0.18
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
9.81
9.25
9.06
7.83
6.56
6.23
6.33
6.86
8.03
8.63
9.78
9.92
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
93.23
1.0
58.74
1.5
33.02
2.0
15.48
2.5
5.48
3.0*
2.20
6.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 1.30

Feb
100.00
94.46
55.19
28.58
12.44
6.59
4.07
0.00
1.27

Mar
100.00
92.84
52.63
24.60
9.90
3.47
1.20
0.00
1.18

Apr
100.00
89.10
41.92
17.03
6.05
2.42
0.71
0.00
1.04

May
100.00
77.62
30.65
8.34
1.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.84

Jun
100.00
73.16
21.53
3.13
0.73
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.74

Jul
100.00
75.01
18.54
3.02
0.52
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.74

Aug
100.00
72.66
25.29
8.50
1.84
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.79

Sep
100.00
85.31
42.99
16.57
6.50
2.36
0.83
0.00
1.03

Oct
100.00
91.62
52.02
21.45
8.54
2.94
1.31
0.00
1.14

Nov
100.00
95.00
60.17
32.61
12.90
4.72
1.99
0.00
1.30

Dec
100.00
93.23
63.22
35.83
17.00
6.69
2.73
0.00
1.36

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
3.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 3.0m to 6.5m.

Year
100.00
86.04
43.50
19.34
7.72
2.87
1.24
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15631_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

6.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.0m in 0.5m intervals and 3.0 to 6.5m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15631_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15631: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

12

53

78843

585

520

501

635

611

795

618

617

4882

78790

1652

1229

1329

1626

2055

2298

2214

1666

14069

73908

2696

2054

2020

2171

3148

4770

3629

2349

22837

59839

2219

1502

1194

1643

2601

4893

3774

1974

19800

37002

1152

579

497

946

1517

3321

2568

1145

11725

17202

309

214

247

159

589

1290

1058

432

4298

5477

64

58

36

29

138

221

333

143

1022

1179

12

10

11

77

16

130

157

20

27

27

14299

8348

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
6
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8697

6168

5832

7212

10676

17611

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.0m in 0.5m intervals and 3.0 to 6.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

2759

1133

1304

898

1466

1127

848

1469

11004

78843

8528

3412

3332

1887

4034

5771

3578

2998

33540

67839

4257

1915

1654

1448

2160

3018

2756

1842

19050

34299

1745

706

701

791

1015

1790

1452

963

9163

15249

737

300

320

222

425

581

559

682

3826

6086

363

153

143

50

109

91

127

250

1286

2260

389

199

144

10

67

159

974

974

18778

7818

7598

5306

9212

12381

9387

8363

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
6.5
20.0
Total

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15631_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15631: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.0m in 0.5m intervals and 3.0 to 6.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

53

4882

14069

22837 19800 11725

4298

1022

130

27

78843

17

471

355

104

27

974

282

551

426

25

1286

86

1583

1917

238

3826

10

100

2115

5590

1345

69

515

3673

10550

4229

14

17

1935

7338

17190

7036

24

36

2878

6206

1873

11

6.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
9163

1.5
19050

1.0
33540

0.5
11004

0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15631_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.0m in 0.5m intervals and 3.0 to 6.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

10

211

12577

25908

23195

9765

4227

1733

531

349

293

30

12

Total Samples 78843

78843

1/10

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

6.5

134

90

355

205

122

67

974

584

430

237

17

13

1286

1401

1733

595

72

3826

79

6604

1909

400

106

21

23

20

9163

71

7568

8306

1756

853

363

52

47

31

7418

15264

5245

3083

1615

514

131

110

133

22

5087

2992

1636

566

244

86

97

36

26

3.0

2.5

2.0

1.5

19050

1.0

33540

0.5

10

211

11004

0.0

0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15631_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15631: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15512


53.480N, 2.405E

NEXT Grid Point 15512


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
99.94
99.93
99.97
99.83
99.70
99.38
99.70
99.78
99.95
99.99
99.94
99.97
99.84
95.01
93.46
95.09
93.61
87.99
87.01
86.60
89.50
93.52
95.47
97.05
96.28
92.54
83.38
79.60
82.49
75.14
62.71
60.25
61.01
64.09
74.20
81.94
85.69
80.96
74.25
62.42
53.90
57.71
42.46
31.00
25.05
25.31
31.31
47.10
54.66
62.85
61.08
46.20
37.43
30.61
28.86
14.25
8.11
3.72
4.14
10.19
19.69
24.78
36.65
38.10
21.34
16.81
11.09
9.01
3.51
0.30
0.39
0.18
1.73
4.00
6.92
12.89
16.40
6.92
4.84
4.05
0.90
0.40
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.52
1.42
3.06
4.55
1.64
0.84
0.61
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.16
0.31
0.79
0.23
0.10
0.05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.18
0.03
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
9.67
8.90
8.89
7.68
6.67
6.31
6.32
6.84
7.92
8.63
9.58
9.65
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
95.67
1.0
76.58
1.5
51.70
2.0
33.35
2.5
21.56
3.0
12.33
3.5
5.59
4.0*
2.47
7.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 1.76

Feb
100.00
97.50
70.07
43.00
26.11
14.99
9.41
5.86
3.13
0.00
1.61

Mar
100.00
96.85
73.54
42.59
24.89
12.94
6.81
2.51
0.87
0.00
1.56

Apr
100.00
94.86
60.29
27.21
13.00
5.99
3.15
1.59
0.15
0.00
1.29

May
100.00
86.94
43.73
18.82
6.62
1.12
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.04

Jun
100.00
86.50
39.69
12.30
3.21
0.59
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.96

Jul
100.00
87.08
37.68
10.50
2.73
0.93
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.95

Aug
100.00
85.46
41.50
19.52
8.53
3.03
1.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.05

Sep
100.00
92.93
62.82
32.21
15.46
6.62
3.27
1.34
0.68
0.00
1.33

Oct
100.00
95.89
69.72
38.78
22.21
11.08
5.32
3.05
1.67
0.00
1.50

Nov
100.00
98.44
75.12
52.99
33.07
18.72
9.38
4.74
2.39
0.00
1.73

Dec
100.00
96.70
76.58
54.29
35.60
21.77
12.51
6.57
3.02
0.00
1.80

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
4.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 4.0m to 7.5m.

Year
100.00
92.86
60.55
33.61
18.70
9.93
5.26
2.59
1.19
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15512_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
20%

NW

15%

NE

10%
5%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

7.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 7.5m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15512_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15512: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
16

20

17

13

17

23

10

10

126

78843

711

602

624

693

783

863

786

695

5757

78717

1758

1264

1271

1675

2016

2496

2211

1727

14418

72960

2575

2102

2137

2090

3159

4375

3398

2283

22119

58542

1856

1622

1338

1631

2626

4787

3704

2037

19601

36423

897

589

647

845

1498

3274

2520

1096

11366

16822

276

240

261

176

538

1254

1006

415

4166

5456

55

53

42

22

159

296

350

134

1111

1290

21

16

29

69

16

156

179

18

22

23

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
1
32.70
51.50
Total

8165

6497

6337

7145

10812

17399

14073

8415

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 7.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

1311

626

617

323

1288

357

273

833

5628

78843

6191

2751

2089

1286

4500

2902

2080

3678

25477

73215

4696

1784

1606

1126

3375

3343

2454

2852

21236

47738

1665

892

833

687

1655

2167

2112

1745

11756

26502

821

418

422

348

1030

1452

1496

932

6919

14746

322

174

240

182

554

893

721

597

3683

7827

218

98

122

73

323

417

463

391

2105

4144

158

117

61

24

172

179

230

162

1103

2039

136

111

51

72

59

244

263

936

936

15518

6971

6041

12969

11769

10073

11453

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
7.5
20.0
Total

4049

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15512_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15512: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 7.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

126

5757

14418

22119 19601 11366

4166

1111

156

22

78843

218

545

150

22

936

36

673

390

454

1489

156

129

2084

1449

17

3683

76

1448

5065

323

6919

12

163

1272

6871

3423

14

433

2140

8498

9865

299

21236

50

3059

9172

11909

1282

25477

75

2253

2939

361

7.5
4.0
1103

3.5
2105

3.0
2.5
2.0
11756

1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

5628
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15512_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 7.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

132

6485

16756

24081

19867

8762

1990

505

184

34

18

15

Total Samples 78843

10

1/10

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60

1/80
1/100

7.5

33

445

330

123

936

450

577

75

1103

34

1594

431

30

16

2105

1265

2244

171

4.0

3.5

3.0

3683

2.5

182

5184

1431

118

6919

60

4903

5565

1126

79

58

4047

11170

4456

1353

102

22

11

3448

11095

7085

3259

485

28

25

19

2976

1550

741

104

46

39

14

2.0

11756

1.5

18

12

21236

25477

1.0

0.5

132

5628

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15512_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15512: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15697


52.528N, 2.304E

NEXT Grid Point 15697


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.95
99.96
99.97
99.88
99.81
99.85
99.84
99.98
99.96
99.98 100.00 99.93
96.26
93.86
95.17
93.41
86.78
84.68
85.57
87.90
93.07
95.22
96.98
96.52
92.10
84.70
77.68
81.01
74.75
62.83
56.44
58.07
62.92
72.10
80.53
84.23
82.24
73.10
62.01
52.95
54.56
40.19
28.59
23.80
23.08
29.06
41.85
50.81
62.15
61.60
44.18
36.25
27.79
24.04
13.82
6.50
3.66
3.44
8.86
15.94
24.50
34.61
38.14
19.76
15.65
10.12
6.54
2.75
0.39
0.11
0.10
1.70
3.19
6.98
12.25
15.88
6.29
3.93
3.21
0.39
0.32
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.20
1.00
2.27
4.14
1.28
1.00
0.49
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.16
0.14
0.87
0.22
0.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.10
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
9.64
8.70
8.54
7.54
6.52
6.12
6.15
6.65
7.60
8.49
9.45
9.65
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
93.93
1.0
66.02
1.5
41.60
2.0
26.72
2.5
14.87
3.0
6.75
3.5*
2.62
6.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 1.52

Feb
100.00
92.57
57.35
33.67
18.93
10.69
5.21
3.00
0.00
1.37

Mar
100.00
93.61
57.69
29.03
14.34
6.33
1.94
0.46
0.00
1.27

Apr
100.00
91.10
47.57
20.57
8.08
3.43
1.76
0.36
0.00
1.11

May
100.00
81.40
37.20
13.25
4.45
0.52
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.94

Jun
100.00
77.73
30.32
6.40
1.27
0.26
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.83

Jul
100.00
78.46
27.53
6.33
1.22
0.27
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.82

Aug
100.00
78.68
33.69
12.88
5.06
1.48
0.18
0.00
0.00
0.91

Sep
100.00
87.90
47.50
20.51
8.78
3.41
1.10
0.31
0.00
1.10

Oct
100.00
91.43
57.80
30.31
16.13
7.89
3.63
1.18
0.00
1.29

Nov
100.00
94.23
65.93
41.44
24.12
12.05
4.34
1.87
0.00
1.48

Dec
100.00
93.64
67.98
44.97
28.41
14.62
7.33
3.12
0.00
1.56

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
3.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 3.5m to 6.0m.

Year
100.00
87.85
49.67
25.04
13.11
6.30
2.69
1.07
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15697_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

20%

NE

10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.5m in 0.5m intervals and 3.5 to 6.0m
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Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15697: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
1

15

10

54

78843

731

829

804

733

834

800

779

661

6171

78789

1645

1639

1512

1604

2165

2680

2161

1576

14982

72618

2599

2484

2065

2035

3031

4811

3401

2381

22807

57636

2001

1813

1157

1385

2389

5123

3487

1892

19247

34829

802

772

471

528

1305

3581

2175

986

10620

15582

200

215

213

75

446

1491

994

318

3952

4962

25

44

22

130

241

253

112

835

1010

10

20

32

82

158

175

13

17

17

18766

13355

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
1
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

8015

7811

6259

6374

10328

7935

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.5m in 0.5m intervals and 3.5 to 6.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

2598

1439

682

385

2302

1351

225

594

9576

78843

8335

4119

1818

1328

5082

5514

1475

2431

30102

69267

3747

2418

1018

973

2615

5373

1707

1569

19420

39165

1288

1058

437

406

1442

2883

1017

879

9410

19745

631

457

271

165

962

1799

601

481

5367

10335

288

223

177

63

540

996

321

243

2851

4968

146

164

67

17

292

345

146

100

1277

2117

138

142

46

151

123

151

81

840

840

17171

10020

4516

3345

13386

18384

5643

6378

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
6.0
20.0
Total

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Southern North Sea


Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15697: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.5m in 0.5m intervals and 3.5 to 6.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

54

6171

14982

22807 19247 10620

3952

835

158

17

78843

215

455

152

17

840

92

842

339

1277

6.0
3.5
3.0
1

10

854

1946

39

2851

373

4078

908

5367

2.5
2.0
2

14

280

4253

4821

40

9410

61

662

5723

12201

772

19420

10

2518

9180

15985

2407

44

3590

5126

813

1.5
1.0
30102

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

9576
10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15697_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.5m in 0.5m intervals and 3.5 to 6.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

37

325

10335

20906

25132

17361

3939

638

121

30

11

Total Samples 78843

78843

1/10

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60

1/80
1/100

6.0

387

327

108

18

840

122

974

181

1277

1641

1141

67

2851

300

4388

660

16

5367

43

5274

3758

317

11

46

5427

10826

2818

299

5578

13162

6929

4321

108

4711

2271

1801

313

53

29

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.0

9410

1.5

19420

1.0

30102

0.5

37

325

10

11

9576

0.0

0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Nseasth97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15697_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Southern North Sea


Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15697: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

English Channel

60N

55N

16357

50N

16700

10W

5W

English Channel

5E

Grid Point 16357


50.413N, 1.650W

NEXT Grid Point 16357


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98
99.96 100.00 99.93
99.72
99.64
99.91
99.91 100.00 99.98 100.00 99.92
93.63
93.15
94.23
91.18
83.66
81.84
82.79
82.49
88.60
91.81
97.11
97.01
89.77
78.87
75.14
74.29
71.27
51.31
47.98
52.67
53.15
63.09
73.29
82.81
86.89
67.52
56.04
48.68
49.81
40.86
23.57
21.30
19.76
22.81
33.73
45.86
57.55
66.64
40.51
31.11
26.05
23.95
18.72
4.54
5.69
4.59
6.71
13.44
22.47
29.71
35.80
18.52
13.08
9.98
6.11
4.48
0.28
0.80
0.82
0.94
2.82
6.77
11.16
17.32
6.20
4.20
3.56
0.16
0.56
0.00
0.08
0.15
0.21
0.22
1.00
1.93
5.20
1.43
0.75
1.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.02
0.48
0.18
0.07
0.05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
9.08
8.54
8.22
7.62
6.02
5.90
5.92
6.13
7.03
8.05
9.06
9.90
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
95.35
1.0
70.50
1.5
47.21
2.0
31.13
2.5
19.84
3.0
12.24
3.5
6.71
4.0*
4.12
8.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 1.71

Feb
100.00
95.12
68.55
43.10
26.08
15.42
9.08
5.63
3.90
0.00
1.61

Mar
100.00
94.32
67.05
39.96
20.75
8.84
3.44
0.81
0.13
0.00
1.43

Apr
100.00
87.88
48.77
23.78
11.43
5.37
2.36
0.99
0.34
0.00
1.16

May
100.00
71.39
26.50
7.14
1.73
0.40
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.78

Jun
100.00
66.17
22.87
9.21
3.13
1.44
0.51
0.32
0.15
0.00
0.77

Jul
100.00
67.28
21.48
6.29
1.75
0.78
0.39
0.19
0.10
0.00
0.75

Aug
100.00
65.61
24.66
10.20
4.47
1.67
0.46
0.28
0.21
0.00
0.80

Sep
100.00
77.59
36.70
17.70
8.58
3.38
1.02
0.29
0.03
0.00
0.97

Oct
100.00
88.89
51.70
28.83
16.21
8.83
4.06
2.18
0.88
0.00
1.26

Nov
100.00
97.70
68.43
42.24
26.54
14.10
7.69
2.89
0.65
0.00
1.54

Dec
100.00
96.55
75.84
52.57
35.19
23.42
15.65
9.77
5.88
0.00
1.85

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
4.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 4.0m to 8.5m.

Year
100.00
83.58
48.48
27.27
15.53
8.60
4.74
2.50
1.36
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Channel97.mdb~F2S_NEXT16357_WS/WD_77-79/89-94

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

30%

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

8.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 8.5m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Channel97.mdb~F2S_NEXT16357_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

English Channel
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 16357: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
6

10

10

14

64

78843

984

956

965

850

847

1014

1183

1205

8004

78779

1900

2215

2153

1434

1688

2729

3275

2148

17542

70775

1807

2731

2654

1511

2093

4394

4157

1946

21293

53233

1050

2108

1818

1019

1639

4476

3851

1375

17336

31940

547

919

536

363

947

3026

2700

678

9716

14604

143

222

151

70

313

1338

1252

272

3761

4888

30

26

17

12

97

428

348

24

982

1127

15

51

64

136

145

17468

16847

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
2
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

6469

9186

8301

5265

7645

7662

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 8.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

265

1141

1746

48

105

1964

7178

500

12947

78843

937

3030

3719

399

626

9721

8321

922

27675

65896

377

1443

2128

465

607

7407

3880

411

16718

38221

142

680

723

377

598

4607

1944

185

9256

21503

58

302

300

167

324

2989

1257

70

5467

12247

11

90

134

59

181

1763

801

3046

6780

15

22

76

20

77

1145

410

1766

3734

17

49

622

201

896

1968

58

870

142

1072

1072

1554

2625

31088

24134

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
8.5
20.0
Total

1805

6708

8833

2096

78843

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Channel97.mdb~F2S_NEXT16357_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

English Channel
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16357: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 8.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

64

8004

17542

21293 17336

9716

3761

982

136

78843

14

305

614

130

1072

66

613

212

896

20

461

1162

120

1766

13

138

1750

1110

33

3046

117

1248

3580

513

10

177

1000

4900

3113

56

9256

134

1239

5807

8808

728

16718

28

2684

9404

13339

2216

36

5176

6715

1016

8.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
5467

2.0
1.5
1.0
27675

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

12947
10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Channel97.mdb~F2S_NEXT16357_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.0m in 0.5m intervals and 4.0 to 8.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

24

353

7221

13030

15722

13327

10031

8158

4500

2081

1118

1780

1431

11

15

1/10

22

14

Total Samples 78843

1/20

78843

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

8.5

151

426

342

110

31

1072

56

422

357

35

12

10

896

16

451

1019

211

18

17

11

23

1766

427

1621

745

134

31

24

32

30

3046

168

2608

1878

413

112

48

40

78

116

5467

42

2688

3914

1158

457

165

144

111

257

319

9256

35

2893

7166

2572

1204

591

545

430

283

498

489

16718

4163

8699

4610

2227

1572

2295

1763

820

400

718

377

11

27675

3022

1390

1088

1563

2087

2065

787

213

121

145

65

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5

2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5

24

353

12947

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Channel97.mdb~F2S_NEXT16357_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

English Channel
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16357: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 16700


49.773N, 4.657W

NEXT Grid Point 16700


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98 100.00 100.00 99.99 100.00 99.90
99.88
99.98 100.00 100.00 99.99
99.98
95.61
96.29
96.19
94.04
87.93
87.82
88.00
86.08
90.62
93.95
95.76
96.94
92.41
83.52
82.77
81.34
76.74
61.95
59.88
57.50
55.98
69.27
76.01
84.18
88.37
73.06
59.34
56.28
57.23
49.33
29.04
24.55
25.53
25.40
37.48
49.90
61.33
68.50
45.26
35.13
30.16
27.22
22.64
7.04
6.47
4.33
7.65
12.50
23.62
33.07
43.31
21.05
16.66
13.16
7.84
6.27
0.75
1.39
0.48
1.03
1.79
5.98
11.84
19.55
7.20
5.53
4.10
0.75
1.08
0.00
0.02
0.09
0.18
0.28
0.87
1.54
6.35
1.72
0.67
1.43
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.13
0.05
0.70
0.24
0.12
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.13
0.02
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
9.60
9.20
8.77
8.25
6.56
6.44
6.28
6.34
7.24
8.26
9.29
10.34
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
99.96
1.0
97.31
1.5
82.85
2.0
65.62
2.5
50.78
3.0
38.88
3.5
26.51
4.0
19.04
4.5
12.16
5.0
7.73
5.5
4.98
6.0*
3.63
13.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.83

Feb
100.00
100.00
96.74
83.20
66.69
50.35
35.21
23.01
14.99
11.14
7.61
5.82
4.35
0.00
2.80

Mar
100.00
100.00
95.35
83.49
63.86
38.87
24.37
15.04
7.44
3.66
1.49
0.64
0.33
0.00
2.43

Apr
100.00
99.83
85.30
58.52
36.66
21.31
12.54
7.10
4.99
3.41
1.73
0.86
0.62
0.00
1.91

May
100.00
97.94
65.25
30.70
12.10
3.69
1.72
0.97
0.42
0.16
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.31

Jun
100.00
95.17
60.06
25.57
10.52
5.05
3.02
1.65
0.71
0.42
0.19
0.02
0.00
0.00
1.26

Jul
100.00
96.47
59.83
24.13
8.29
1.82
0.55
0.36
0.18
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.21

Aug
100.00
95.47
56.92
25.83
12.01
5.99
3.09
1.66
0.58
0.39
0.19
0.09
0.00
0.00
1.26

Sep
100.00
98.72
70.63
40.68
21.47
10.25
4.78
2.31
0.97
0.52
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.51

Oct
100.00
99.42
84.93
60.26
38.08
21.06
12.85
8.60
5.27
3.18
1.75
0.72
0.54
0.00
1.93

Nov
100.00
100.00
96.74
82.89
58.64
40.20
24.18
13.21
7.62
4.14
1.96
0.66
0.08
0.00
2.40

Dec
100.00
100.00
96.88
82.84
67.26
54.75
42.94
31.33
22.27
15.92
11.08
7.63
5.42
0.00
3.01

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
6.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 6.0m to 13.0m.

Year
100.00
98.57
80.39
56.59
38.28
25.21
16.93
10.94
7.02
4.58
2.80
1.77
1.23
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
60%

NW

45%

NE

30%
15%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

13

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 13.0m
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English Channel
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 16700: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
1

19

78843

956

887

722

549

540

657

739

916

5966

78824

2287

2036

1668

1218

1310

1953

2512

2275

15259

72858

2356

2708

2546

1645

1983

3984

3983

2708

21913

57599

1362

1815

1893

1257

1936

4520

4247

2060

19090

35686

493

876

712

421

1159

3377

2792

1088

10918

16596

272

78

141

105

352

1509

1434

428

4319

5678

29

42

34

17

130

403

387

126

1168

1359

20

57

86

173

191

12

17

18

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

7755

8444

7718

5222

7431

16473

16194

9606

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 13.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

16

47

107

13

69

745

120

1126

78843

434

553

1468

74

56

1354

9313

1082

14334

77717

449

912

2103

186

125

2437

11578

977

18767

63383

183

678

1203

125

229

2878

8667

470

14433

44616

99

509

705

94

206

2685

5706

301

10305

30183

78

244

336

49

151

2448

3100

123

6529

19878

46

78

148

99

130

2074

2055

94

4724

13349

20

12

78

34

83

1553

1255

59

3094

8625

11

31

44

966

817

35

1922

5531

19

27

772

552

15

1401

3609

25

11

430

336

814

2208

273

136

421

1394

17

624

327

973

973

706

1091

18563

44587

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
2
5.5
6.0
13.0
20.0
Total

1336

3053

6223

3284

78843

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English Channel
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16700: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 13.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

19

5966

15259

21913 19090 10918

4319

1168

173

17

78843

13

284

496

161

17

973

38

224

150

421

15

110

466

214

814

39

392

818

141

1401

33

177

773

827

107

1922

19

108

605

1525

782

52

3094

60

463

1378

2240

576

4724

43

249

1012

2407

2522

295

6529

149

721

2378

4561

2450

46

10305

564

2090

4886

6071

819

14433

1503

4936

8627

3662

36

14

3083

6692

4376

169

621

484

21

13.0
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
18767

1.0
14334

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

1126
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 13.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

823

3131

6056

8944

11571

13215

11091

9755

6261

4245

2065

738

469

1/10

238

164

Total Samples 78843

68

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

13.0
4

47

170

389

216

106

22

10

973

19

85

124

129

47

17

99

221

233

172

59

22

57

258

462

284

208

100

16

1401

20

212

519

402

301

259

123

21

26

12

17

10

1922

147

598

612

569

469

308

211

67

61

16

21

15

3094

20

580

884

774

830

648

398

253

117

108

54

41

17

4724

375

1209

1104

983

1080

730

496

355

94

47

28

13

12

6529

95

1724

1718

1379

1384

1504

1035

725

373

153

99

69

39

10305

24

1324

2506

1749

2081

2175

2183

1220

763

209

91

64

28

10

14433

23

1245

3126

2189

2669

3254

3058

1829

875

330

102

31

16

13

18767

688

1803

1351

1887

3113

3507

1170

533

172

68

17

12

111

57

157

243

366

137

36

10

6.0
421

5.5
814

5.0

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5
1
2.0

1.5

1.0
14334

0.5
4

1126

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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English Channel
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16700: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Celtic Sea

60N

55N

16462

16694

Celtic Sea
50N
16991

10W

5W

5E

Grid Point 16462


51.455N, 5.986W

NEXT Grid Point 16462


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
99.96 100.00 99.91 100.00 99.93
99.92
99.94
99.90
99.97 100.00 99.97 100.00 99.96
96.23
96.39
97.10
94.47
87.32
86.31
88.80
88.78
92.47
96.97
97.75
98.76
93.43
84.67
85.77
87.18
78.36
57.32
58.66
60.80
63.19
72.45
84.05
90.03
89.98
75.97
65.15
61.17
66.78
50.35
22.71
28.56
25.25
31.42
42.33
56.62
67.07
68.12
48.71
40.45
36.21
36.23
20.43
5.44
6.94
7.02
8.71
18.98
24.14
37.04
42.49
23.61
17.98
15.77
11.80
5.76
0.49
0.73
0.88
1.79
4.49
5.60
12.58
20.46
8.16
5.17
5.47
2.73
0.71
0.01
0.00
0.01
0.19
0.42
0.97
2.38
4.21
1.84
0.87
1.10
0.18
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.02
0.07
0.28
0.51
0.25
0.13
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
9.96
9.73
9.68
8.25
6.23
6.46
6.47
6.79
7.78
8.69
9.81
10.32
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
95.28
1.5
82.08
2.0
66.53
2.5
53.68
3.0
41.33
3.5
29.41
4.0
20.49
4.5
13.39
5.0
8.88
5.5
5.84
6.0*
4.00
12.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.90

Feb
100.00
100.00
96.85
82.04
66.39
52.01
39.16
26.99
17.87
11.76
8.78
6.54
5.21
0.00
2.88

Mar
100.00
99.72
93.43
82.78
67.93
46.03
29.34
19.33
12.10
7.10
3.88
2.09
1.42
0.00
2.59

Apr
100.00
99.20
80.68
54.67
33.48
20.25
11.75
7.31
4.94
3.68
2.22
1.14
0.68
0.00
1.86

May
100.00
95.77
55.68
25.72
10.23
3.66
1.96
0.85
0.16
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.22

Jun
100.00
92.18
57.53
26.30
11.90
5.19
2.07
1.05
0.57
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.24

Jul
100.00
95.14
54.99
25.58
10.85
4.42
1.66
0.45
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.21

Aug
100.00
93.89
56.33
29.03
13.70
7.05
4.45
1.88
0.88
0.58
0.25
0.13
0.10
0.00
1.30

Sep
100.00
96.99
68.33
44.89
26.73
15.48
8.30
4.20
1.88
0.94
0.39
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.58

Oct
100.00
98.06
81.97
58.95
39.39
23.68
13.88
6.78
4.56
2.99
1.90
1.15
0.58
0.00
1.92

Nov
100.00
100.00
95.39
80.49
59.10
41.48
26.84
17.52
10.85
6.28
3.27
1.64
0.69
0.00
2.47

Dec
100.00
100.00
94.32
78.96
63.77
54.09
43.06
33.42
24.19
16.22
11.54
7.21
4.93
0.00
2.97

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
6.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 6.0m to 12.5m.

Year
100.00
97.56
77.43
55.80
39.02
27.13
18.56
12.37
8.18
5.23
3.41
2.13
1.45
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
45%

NW

30%

NE

15%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

12.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 12.5m
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Celtic Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 16462: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

34

78843

732

703

640

592

541

594

648

696

5146

78809

1882

1966

1490

1168

1399

1894

2106

1858

13763

73663

2260

2269

2093

1734

2458

4151

3948

2580

21493

59900

1674

1400

1256

1481

2766

4797

4499

1923

19796

38407

630

649

297

815

1561

3812

3367

1047

12178

18611

231

124

131

265

611

1762

1424

435

4983

6433

24

27

42

57

152

471

344

134

1251

1450

13

22

36

85

31

189

199

10

10

16433

8712

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

7435

7142

5965

6121

9511

17524

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 12.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

144

322

74

87

50

473

721

49

1920

78843

1303

2232

918

225

356

4206

6077

554

15871

76923

1277

1384

642

309

534

6032

6370

511

17059

61052

814

642

319

254

579

6092

4056

472

13228

43993

381

373

51

242

400

4902

2693

335

9377

30765

212

148

64

141

349

3869

1826

148

6757

21388

148

75

46

91

271

2836

1286

125

4878

14631

61

38

40

48

183

2011

867

55

3303

9753

45

11

22

133

1479

580

48

2326

6450

23

16

72

836

439

42

1439

4124

20

14

12

39

606

303

1008

2685

365

147

533

1677

20

801

303

15

1144

1144

2993

34508

25668

2368

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
2
6.0
5
12.5
20.0
Total

4435

5246

2186

1439

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Celtic Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16462: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 12.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

34

5146

13763

21493 19796 12178

4983

1251

189

10

78843

40

416

520

158

10

1144

63

322

133

14

533

21

164

597

211

15

1008

12.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
2

62

405

748

216

1439

48

244

973

945

105

2326

21

109

566

1635

913

50

3303

47

364

1346

2426

679

15

4878

26

194

766

2450

3012

308

6757

97

377

1867

4464

2513

54

9377

316

1231

4297

6475

904

13228

870

3763

8434

3944

43

15

2914

7159

5560

223

912

960

43

4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
17059

1.0
15871

0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

1920
8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 6.0m in 0.5m intervals and 6.0 to 12.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

2373

6324

8807

9725

11237

12303

9979

8355

4103

3371

1666

298

149

1/10

95

38

Total Samples 78843

13

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

12.5
12

133

270

419

232

56

1144

36

159

149

142

40

22

183

436

173

117

60

16

101

539

386

173

135

68

18

30

392

748

427

239

284

158

30

14

2326

231

936

783

503

313

285

170

58

3303

36

974

1274

773

665

493

338

245

34

16

19

4878

536

2027

1192

860

892

528

418

220

34

25

16

6757

157

2454

1932

1254

1096

1339

531

410

181

14

38

2304

3373

1566

1549

1705

1506

513

446

152

20

29

24

13228

54

1993

4640

1866

1852

2471

1823

1357

548

294

113

15

29

17059

1661

4142

1521

1183

2246

2957

1343

515

166

82

27

10

10

658

148

182

273

377

152

78

37

6.0
533

5.5
1008

5.0
1439

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0

2.5
9377

2.0

1.5

1.0
3

15871

0.5
2

1920

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Celtic97.mdb~F2S_NEXT16462_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Celtic Sea
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16462: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 16694


50.537N, 6.783W

NEXT Grid Point 16694


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
99.99 100.00 100.00 99.98
99.99
99.98
99.96
99.97 100.00 99.99 100.00 99.99
99.99
97.53
97.69
97.67
95.64
89.68
90.17
91.16
89.78
92.73
96.16
97.76
98.24
94.50
86.04
87.05
88.78
80.71
63.49
64.55
63.59
64.27
74.31
82.95
91.19
88.98
77.92
66.39
63.54
67.58
56.19
28.29
31.90
28.00
31.66
42.21
56.72
68.23
67.40
50.58
42.60
37.53
35.27
24.20
6.95
9.24
7.22
10.35
17.52
24.92
37.93
44.83
24.81
19.59
17.48
13.06
7.14
0.46
1.25
0.90
2.08
4.57
5.81
13.64
22.69
9.01
5.27
6.99
2.67
1.58
0.00
0.00
0.16
0.25
0.56
1.25
1.64
6.42
2.21
1.03
1.71
0.16
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.07
0.03
0.18
0.20
1.02
0.36
0.07
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.08
0.09
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
10.21
9.98
9.71
8.63
6.61
6.84
6.69
6.89
7.77
8.69
9.86
10.50
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
99.28
1.5
93.04
2.0
79.99
2.5
67.29
3.0
55.89
3.5
44.31
4.0
33.80
4.5
23.39
5.0
16.36
5.5
10.27
6.0
6.89
6.5
4.99
7.0
3.35
7.5*
2.39
14.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 3.48

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.18
94.09
80.92
65.49
53.76
40.87
29.84
20.13
13.81
10.54
8.37
6.41
4.84
3.97
0.00
3.46

Mar
100.00
100.00
98.54
92.52
81.18
65.27
46.06
31.40
21.60
14.45
8.38
4.57
2.76
1.42
0.97
0.54
0.00
3.10

Apr
100.00
99.91
92.79
72.36
51.07
31.54
20.11
12.32
8.15
6.42
4.25
3.18
2.15
1.39
0.59
0.42
0.00
2.28

May
100.00
100.00
77.97
40.96
19.51
7.86
3.20
1.55
0.99
0.31
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.51

Jun
100.00
99.77
74.41
43.73
19.72
9.21
4.35
2.13
1.28
0.80
0.39
0.05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.52

Jul
100.00
99.25
74.32
37.21
16.75
6.95
2.35
1.09
0.45
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.45

Aug
100.00
98.98
75.17
40.36
20.26
10.19
5.87
3.44
1.78
0.78
0.34
0.21
0.16
0.13
0.10
0.09
0.00
1.54

Sep
100.00
99.26
83.30
57.56
36.48
22.81
11.71
6.20
2.95
1.85
1.22
0.32
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.87

Oct
100.00
100.00
91.11
72.36
52.11
35.30
20.91
13.71
8.80
5.87
3.81
2.52
1.42
0.82
0.67
0.39
0.00
2.30

Nov
100.00
100.00
99.49
93.12
77.31
56.60
38.89
26.45
17.16
9.95
6.33
2.93
1.27
0.52
0.40
0.25
0.00
2.91

Dec
100.00
100.00
99.39
90.65
76.63
64.71
53.48
42.80
34.96
26.54
19.09
14.13
9.65
6.88
5.18
4.11
0.00
3.55

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
7.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 7.5m to 14.0m.

Year
100.00
99.76
88.68
68.82
50.81
36.78
26.25
18.76
13.42
9.18
6.14
4.04
2.70
1.86
1.33
1.00
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
60%

NW

45%

NE

30%
15%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

14

6.5

7.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.5m in 0.5m intervals and 7.5 to 14m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Celtic97.mdb~F2S_NEXT16694_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Celtic Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 16694: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
1

11

78843

605

568

557

550

511

462

519

555

4327

78832

1715

1792

1495

1107

1415

1766

1966

1811

13067

74505

2299

2364

2088

1699

2313

4068

4011

2714

21556

61438

1808

1529

1480

1366

2502

4638

4675

2324

20322

39882

801

643

380

658

1569

3645

3376

1381

12453

19560

295

129

119

264

630

1763

1645

520

5365

7107

65

19

51

45

158

478

464

176

1456

1742

27

41

58

99

40

269

286

11

17

17

9144

16882

16766

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

7589

7049

6199

5691

9523

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.5m in 0.5m intervals and 7.5 to 14m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0

NE

37

18

444

861

675

708

1306

616

SW

Total

CFD

12

105

187

78843

177

167

829

5050

538

8741

78656

919

314

419

1978

9199

810

15653

69915

943

523

322

411

2027

8542

818

14202

54262

405

548

216

216

410

2101

6441

722

11059

40060

257

217

95

182

254

2127

4806

369

8307

29001

167

126

47

116

228

1611

3418

190

5903

20694

115

57

35

63

177

1290

2321

155

4213

14791

68

24

20

52

157

1100

1817

102

3340

10578

55

10

11

44

91

806

1303

76

2396

7238

28

19

23

80

517

916

70

1660

4842

15

28

395

574

29

1055

3182

260

371

10

660

2127

12

152

251

421

1467

116

135

259

1046

12

325

433

17

787

787

2453

15646

45682

3913

78843

6.5
7.0

SE

7.5
14.0
20.0
Total

2887

4154

2602

1506

NW

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Celtic Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16694: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.5m in 0.5m intervals and 7.5 to 14m

Total Samples 78843


Total

11

4327

13067

21556 20322 12453

5365

1456

269

17

78843

161

407

196

17

787

23

114

105

17

259

33

226

137

25

421

15

97

363

168

17

660

14.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
1

38

242

561

204

1055

11

30

117

495

776

220

1660

13

82

294

905

969

131

2396

29

156

711

1441

937

65

3340

76

385

1149

1886

697

17

4213

29

255

811

1988

2406

413

5903

96

400

1597

3385

2700

126

8307

194

1010

3078

5057

1699

20

11059

508

2188

5606

5396

501

14202

1483

4557

7455

2135

19

1879

4477

2345

37

130

50

5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

15653
8741
187

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Celtic97.mdb~F2S_NEXT16694_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 7.5m in 0.5m intervals and 7.5 to 14m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

547

2641

5179

6984

9636

12380

11392

10524

8716

5409

2918

1302

1/10

722

267

186

Total Samples 78843

35

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

14.0

1/100
9

56

216

302

149

33

13

787

13

34

129

51

19

259

27

104

170

68

14

22

421

15

65

245

200

69

29

29

660

62

224

320

203

120

62

39

17

1055

14

240

390

391

251

205

70

52

19

24

1660

90

481

498

429

388

217

104

99

47

33

2396

17

338

596

663

625

441

306

194

99

38

16

3340

167

713

666

632

852

559

338

150

86

28

17

4213

7.5

7.0

6.5

6.0

5.5

5.0

4.5

4.0

3.5
2

32

680

894

853

889

1040

786

379

159

116

44

27

5903

340

1513

1227

1041

1406

1333

757

408

185

56

12

19

8307

109

1896

1613

1287

1645

1946

1481

711

221

67

53

19

11059

17

1632

2463

1506

1768

2571

2226

1328

395

173

63

33

23

14202

63

1161

2776

1389

2069

3787

2436

1303

379

185

54

37

470

1448

647

833

1980

2238

768

233

99

18

13

11

31

89

24

3.0

2.5
1
2.0

1.5
3

15653

1.0
8741

0.5
2

187

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Celtic97.mdb~F2S_NEXT16694_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Celtic Sea
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16694: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 16991


49.504N, 8.078W

NEXT Grid Point 16991


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.99
99.97
99.97 100.00 99.98 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.99
97.76
97.83
97.74
96.94
90.54
92.41
91.28
92.10
95.11
95.73
97.98
98.88
95.34
88.08
87.63
89.38
84.45
68.26
69.63
66.28
66.31
78.52
82.72
90.97
90.73
80.18
66.93
63.66
67.24
57.98
32.07
35.23
29.19
32.88
48.02
57.86
70.29
69.21
52.45
42.07
36.89
34.69
27.85
7.89
10.52
7.44
9.38
16.36
28.07
39.81
47.94
25.68
20.01
15.93
13.03
7.23
1.14
1.62
0.63
2.23
4.52
7.51
15.08
22.61
9.27
5.90
6.33
2.29
2.15
0.03
0.29
0.01
0.30
1.00
1.15
2.36
8.03
2.47
0.82
1.37
0.04
0.19
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.23
0.03
0.05
1.51
0.35
0.12
0.33
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.33
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
10.26
9.93
9.71
8.91
6.90
7.15
6.76
6.97
8.04
8.87
10.04
10.78
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
99.90
1.5
97.64
2.0
88.11
2.5
72.74
3.0
62.87
3.5
53.53
4.0
40.82
4.5
31.08
5.0
22.49
5.5
15.14
6.0
9.98
6.5
6.44
7.0
4.59
7.5
3.23
8.0*
2.73
16.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 3.84

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.88
96.06
87.55
74.63
60.96
49.24
36.34
26.24
18.34
13.01
10.10
8.37
6.74
5.34
4.33
0.00
3.80

Mar
100.00
100.00
99.46
96.04
88.50
74.34
57.04
41.95
30.74
20.63
14.34
9.01
4.68
3.29
2.38
1.75
1.06
0.00
3.48

Apr
100.00
99.94
98.78
82.46
64.05
42.42
25.19
17.19
12.09
8.05
5.87
3.97
2.89
2.15
1.59
1.00
0.74
0.00
2.60

May
100.00
100.00
88.74
53.21
27.25
12.89
5.69
2.58
1.61
0.85
0.34
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.72

Jun
100.00
100.00
84.35
51.56
25.65
12.58
5.77
3.35
1.88
1.23
0.82
0.37
0.22
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.69

Jul
100.00
99.84
85.15
44.98
19.75
8.29
3.20
1.02
0.43
0.13
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.57

Aug
100.00
100.00
82.61
48.42
24.66
13.21
7.02
4.03
2.27
1.43
0.93
0.25
0.16
0.13
0.10
0.03
0.00
0.00
1.68

Sep
100.00
100.00
94.14
67.18
44.94
28.30
16.33
9.24
4.60
3.09
2.04
1.14
0.54
0.22
0.17
0.12
0.05
0.00
2.10

Oct
100.00
100.00
95.41
81.21
64.06
47.73
32.37
19.36
13.10
9.19
6.39
4.42
2.69
1.64
0.84
0.55
0.34
0.00
2.65

Nov
100.00
100.00
100.00
96.87
88.09
71.13
50.77
34.85
22.81
15.91
9.97
5.93
3.46
1.64
0.57
0.28
0.06
0.00
3.26

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
95.86
86.89
73.64
61.93
51.31
41.35
32.90
25.87
20.03
15.25
10.86
7.74
6.02
4.87
0.00
4.00

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
8.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 8.0m to 16.5m.

Year
100.00
99.98
93.99
75.81
58.93
44.15
32.29
23.86
17.26
12.51
8.92
6.10
4.14
2.88
2.04
1.51
1.17
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
60%

NW

NE

45%
30%
15%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

16.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 16.5m
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Celtic Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 16991: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
432

505

450

367

406

515

498

499

3672

78837

1613

1520

1372

1193

1429

1543

1651

1628

11949

75165

2419

2196

2286

1866

2325

3771

4052

2944

21859

63216

1869

1858

1517

1275

2532

4891

4473

2698

21113

41357

929

822

550

615

1546

3436

3228

1813

12939

20244

311

98

136

247

614

1725

1498

730

5359

7305

110

24

38

54

138

491

629

188

1672

1946

28

57

93

32

224

274

14

18

14

50

50

9033

16449

16136

10537

78843

3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
14
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

7697

7025

6349

5617

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 16.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
16.5
20.0
Total

NE

SE

SW

NW

11

Total

CFD

15

78843

286

338

524

109

73

361

2126

910

4727

78828

559

956

1252

329

326

1321

6757

2828

14328

74101

573

719

1065

418

313

1319

6273

2627

13307

59773

427

571

573

197

356

1374

5991

2170

11659

46466

257

383

326

165

235

1568

4476

1940

9350

34807

135

153

152

158

216

1342

3330

1162

6648

25457

107

87

115

99

196

1002

2858

733

5197

18809

72

37

49

88

127

834

2039

500

3746

13612

56

15

32

50

101

705

1565

307

2831

9866

66

27

13

17

84

477

1223

319

2226

7035

29

23

12

28

57

367

841

186

1543

4809

21

24

239

627

77

997

3266

11

172

395

72

662

2269

103

281

26

417

1607

71

176

15

269

1190

13

295

575

35

921

921

2142

11550

39544

13907

78843

2602

3310

4113

1675

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Celtic Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16991: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 16.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

3672

11949

21859 21113 12939

5359

1672

224

50

78843

18

205

477

171

50

921

27

104

124

13

269

45

208

151

417

29

97

288

231

13

662

10

40

264

471

200

10

997

12

34

166

449

662

214

1543

82

282

809

902

146

2226

11

37

179

482

1203

856

63

2831

82

384

857

1622

757

42

3746

21

185

678

1614

2182

498

19

5197

65

302

1168

2552

2267

290

6648

128

662

2208

3911

2337

103

9350

313

1294

3646

5071

1322

13

11659

582

2337

5482

4616

287

13307

1309

4659

6881

1465

10

1233

2369

1099

25

16.5
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

14328
4727
15

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 8.0m in 0.5m intervals and 8.0 to 16.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

38

1176

4198

6500

9652

12524

10873

9942

8771

6613

4045

2416

1/10

1214

464

318

Total Samples 78843

93

1/20

78843

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

16.5
1/100

12

161

308

286

108

14

24

921

30

85

65

43

24

269

56

142

114

47

27

10

417

36

215

131

130

45

40

27

25

12

662

116

248

205

196

96

72

26

21

997

43

308

306

271

233

131

120

65

56

1543

8.0

7.5

7.0

6.5

6.0

5.5
7

183

476

464

332

293

210

134

62

48

17

2226

51

402

514

533

457

310

303

180

54

24

2831

12

271

624

585

659

630

359

347

150

77

30

3746

80

708

794

675

788

938

639

356

124

45

39

5197

16

479

1193

886

869

1246

973

570

274

103

21

15

6648

264

1464

1536

1291

1548

1378

1179

459

118

66

30

78

1359

1877

1556

1775

2161

1726

738

244

79

36

24

11

871

2432

1950

2270

2546

1867

884

253

117

71

22

478

2554

1769

2585

3854

2015

702

222

117

10

32

687

691

658

1194

1076

305

78

5.0

4.5

4.0

3.5

3.0
1

9350

2.5
11659

2.0
2

13307

1.5
2

14328

1.0
4727

0.5
1

11

15

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Celtic Sea
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16991: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Irish Sea

60N

55N

15920

Irish Sea
16230

50N

10W

5W

5E

Grid Point 15920


53.741N, 3.805W

NEXT Grid Point 15920


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
99.88
99.98
99.99
99.95
99.91
99.72
99.60
99.61
99.78
99.97 100.00 100.00 99.87
92.20
95.44
94.29
90.84
81.15
79.48
82.72
85.88
90.59
93.20
96.00
93.43
89.56
78.11
80.28
80.85
69.88
48.85
52.41
55.29
59.58
68.29
77.25
82.21
77.46
69.13
58.47
57.12
58.07
39.41
23.77
22.08
27.74
29.94
41.87
45.80
59.49
55.63
43.20
36.36
33.61
34.27
15.21
5.96
5.25
6.21
9.26
19.97
20.91
34.38
37.51
21.51
16.69
12.19
9.98
2.97
0.40
0.62
0.54
1.30
6.53
6.33
12.67
17.43
7.28
3.84
3.67
1.46
0.39
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.16
1.17
1.36
2.30
4.64
1.58
0.51
0.81
0.10
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.25
0.45
0.35
0.34
0.23
0.06
0.26
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.00
0.13
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
9.37
9.24
9.08
7.41
5.96
5.96
6.24
6.59
7.75
8.15
9.30
9.38
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
84.56
1.0
58.01
1.5
37.58
2.0
23.12
2.5
13.02
3.0*
5.80
6.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 1.37

Feb
100.00
88.17
55.37
32.97
16.75
8.06
4.07
0.00
1.29

Mar
100.00
87.57
58.59
36.02
18.37
6.41
1.87
0.00
1.29

Apr
100.00
72.99
35.21
15.15
5.41
1.75
0.54
0.00
0.91

May
100.00
50.37
17.52
4.53
0.73
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.62

Jun
100.00
55.52
18.23
4.57
0.90
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.64

Jul
100.00
57.69
22.33
5.09
0.94
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.68

Aug
100.00
62.59
25.80
8.23
2.21
0.33
0.06
0.00
0.75

Sep
100.00
72.48
38.27
18.83
9.07
3.46
1.31
0.00
0.96

Oct
100.00
79.58
41.22
19.90
10.11
4.23
1.37
0.00
1.04

Nov
100.00
85.74
57.28
35.22
18.86
7.53
2.48
0.00
1.30

Dec
100.00
81.47
56.69
39.10
23.76
11.42
5.27
0.00
1.35

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
3.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 3.0m to 6.5m.

Year
100.00
73.13
40.29
21.37
10.83
4.68
1.89
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

NE

30%
20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0.5

1.5

2.5

6.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.0m in 0.5m intervals and 3.0 to 6.5m
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Irish Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15920: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
11

14

18

13

13

20

106

78843

793

1009

1161

926

934

1073

1104

1126

8126

78737

1707

1505

2378

1791

1737

2250

2578

2163

16109

70611

1735

1168

2229

2242

2506

3920

3905

2736

20441

54502

883

832

1283

1881

2042

4385

3903

1891

17100

34061

492

375

707

1065

1249

3479

2894

958

11219

16961

140

98

128

331

516

1597

1394

296

4500

5742

61

19

82

136

382

348

28

1059

1242

12

13

34

65

15

151

183

24

29

32

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
5
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

5827

5004

7935

8338

9146

17133

16238

9222

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.0m in 0.5m intervals and 3.0 to 6.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

1905

1747

1859

647

524

8347

3922

2236

21187

78843

1603

1229

2092

1700

1658

8114

6426

3066

25888

57656

582

652

771

1038

1164

4991

4266

1453

14917

31768

352

234

394

571

534

2851

2740

635

8311

16851

105

57

69

194

236

1834

1981

375

4851

8540

53

16

66

66

807

1075

109

2199

3689

15

11

29

511

849

44

1490

1490

5216

4227

4211

27455

21259

7918

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
31
6.5
20.0
Total

4631

3926

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Irish Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15920: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.0m in 0.5m intervals and 3.0 to 6.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

106

8126

16109

20441 17100 11219

4500

1059

151

29

78843

501

807

150

29

1490

201

1777

220

32

6.5
3.0
2199

2.5
1

63

2915

1840

4851

67

1993

5869

376

8311

16

142

2213

10311

2230

14917

662

4939

15571

4708

25888

103

7448

11022

2589

25

2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
21187

0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 3.0m in 0.5m intervals and 3.0 to 6.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

376

2235

17870

23815

18072

9849

4135

1652

585

223

23

Total Samples 78843

1/10

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

6.5

104

734

575

827

1358

14

71

1490

3.0

2199

2.5

473

3864

513

4851

74

5465

2738

34

8311

41

5782

8584

435

46

16

14917

7939

14711

1846

478

360

274

172

95

13

25888

9890

3247

1704

1403

1090

773

334

118

2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5

376

2235

21187

0.0

0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Irish Sea
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15920: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 16230


52.503N, 5.524W

NEXT Grid Point 16230


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
99.90 100.00 99.97
99.74
99.93
99.63
99.84
99.69
99.95
99.99 100.00 99.99
99.88
93.32
95.77
96.03
91.88
80.49
77.07
80.85
84.28
90.83
94.35
96.81
97.13
89.86
80.35
81.63
85.06
72.03
44.86
48.98
50.82
57.57
68.12
81.07
85.48
85.38
70.04
61.31
57.81
63.49
42.56
17.05
21.14
20.21
27.92
40.60
54.38
64.23
62.81
44.38
37.70
32.49
33.06
17.05
3.18
4.09
4.51
5.81
17.18
22.65
35.52
39.53
21.00
15.38
12.36
10.50
3.63
0.22
0.28
0.10
0.37
4.69
5.45
10.96
18.23
6.83
3.72
3.62
1.36
0.19
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.69
0.91
1.91
3.67
1.33
0.81
0.71
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.07
0.15
0.52
0.19
0.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
9.51
9.24
9.33
7.65
5.57
5.75
5.81
6.31
7.53
8.48
9.47
9.88
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
97.79
1.0
81.95
1.5
65.29
2.0
48.80
2.5
33.82
3.0
21.74
3.5
13.84
4.0
8.11
4.5*
4.50
8.0
0.00
Mean HSIG 2.15

Feb
100.00
99.14
83.61
65.07
44.35
29.49
17.71
11.15
6.80
5.01
0.00
2.10

Mar
100.00
96.33
85.23
66.70
43.34
23.75
13.25
7.23
3.59
2.03
0.00
1.97

Apr
100.00
93.05
60.91
33.53
18.25
9.67
4.48
2.22
1.33
0.51
0.00
1.37

May
100.00
76.32
32.00
12.43
3.39
1.28
0.43
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.88

Jun
100.00
76.82
34.32
12.42
4.12
1.39
0.49
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.90

Jul
100.00
74.66
32.60
11.89
3.79
0.97
0.22
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.88

Aug
100.00
80.61
38.68
16.30
6.35
2.75
0.85
0.54
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.98

Sep
100.00
84.66
54.34
31.71
16.36
8.72
4.41
1.64
0.73
0.37
0.00
1.27

Oct
100.00
95.20
69.12
45.89
24.13
11.40
5.60
3.21
1.87
0.58
0.00
1.54

Nov
100.00
98.52
84.38
62.25
40.40
22.48
13.19
7.18
4.09
1.70
0.00
1.92

Dec
100.00
98.81
78.90
63.84
50.22
37.74
25.84
15.91
9.50
4.75
0.00
2.21

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
4.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 4.5m to 8.0m.

Year
100.00
89.26
61.19
40.48
25.20
15.23
8.99
5.23
2.99
1.60
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
60%

NW

NE

45%
30%
15%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.0m
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Irish Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 16230: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
9

12

22

11

13

13

92

78843

948

980

1009

837

992

1213

972

950

7901

78751

1974

1944

1695

1374

1711

2525

2292

2115

15630

70850

1880

1733

1798

1540

2727

4318

3928

2306

20230

55220

1325

1127

887

1473

2899

5327

3914

1479

18431

34990

462

538

265

767

1589

3784

2814

958

11177

16559

145

98

111

255

610

1604

1228

283

4334

5382

39

26

12

66

119

334

263

37

896

1048

21

76

36

143

152

15508

8171

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
1
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

6783

6458

5799

6318

10667

19139

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

1382

1494

185

84

449

4117

425

332

8468

78843

3035

2747

664

354

1371

11313

1824

823

22131

70375

1560

1205

361

318

1463

9388

1423

611

16329

48244

661

663

67

252

1410

7559

934

499

12045

31915

328

337

95

151

1063

4968

663

259

7864

19870

178

150

76

96

700

3117

490

113

4920

12006

70

47

50

57

404

1962

304

68

2962

7086

44

26

13

43

258

1220

141

22

1767

4124

38

20

28

104

826

64

1092

2357

46

11

15

122

972

86

12

1265

1265

7342

6700

1515

1398

7344

45442

6354

2748

78843

0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
8.0
20.0
Total

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Irish Sea
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16230: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

92

7901

15630

20230 18431 11177

4334

896

143

78843

31

516

567

140

1265

155

722

205

8.0
4.5
1092

4.0
1

49

589

1030

90

1767

30

234

1479

1183

33

2962

35

200

968

3010

703

4920

39

133

755

3041

3725

171

7864

115

508

2574

6802

2037

12045

10

518

2046

6914

6690

151

38

3136

8845

9477

635

22131

44

4089

4060

272

8468

3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
16329

1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

8.0

10.8

13.9

17.2

20.8

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 4.5m in 0.5m intervals and 4.5 to 8.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

563

6634

10578

12662

12100

12128

10331

6926

4258

2349

211

42

19

33

1/10

Total Samples 78843

78843

1/20

1/30

1/40

1/60

1/80
1/100

8.0
90

348

457

347

10

1265

272

478

184

131

1092

171

725

465

231

143

26

4.5

4.0
1767

3.5
1

31

842

1104

487

288

159

34

13

717

1908

874

606

438

320

52

155

2668

1857

1177

854

653

454

38

2962

3.0
1

4920

2.5
8

7864

12045

2.0
3

43

2705

3618

1718

1668

1230

738

292

23

34

2649

5838

2355

2024

1827

1015

433

142

16329

3602

6781

3171

2033

2572

1720

1169

742

316

14

22131

2995

1105

789

678

1028

874

274

94

45

13

1.5

1.0

0.5
2

563

8468

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Irish Sea
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 16230: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Hebrides Shelf

60N

Hebrides Shelf
15354

15298

15482

15000

15121

15424

15609

55N

50N

10W

5W

5E

Grid Point 15000


59.399N, 6.991W

NEXT Grid Point 15000


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.94
99.99
99.99 100.00 99.99 100.00 99.99
99.99
98.13
95.45
98.06
96.69
92.77
92.72
93.16
95.01
95.39
97.48
98.30
99.24
96.04
93.19
87.58
92.02
84.76
70.85
73.33
69.94
78.65
81.98
88.50
92.42
93.52
83.87
79.69
75.26
77.56
61.79
42.89
38.90
39.12
45.06
58.80
65.91
77.50
80.42
61.83
60.73
54.86
56.20
33.41
17.51
11.76
13.46
17.54
30.86
36.08
49.60
54.76
36.31
36.12
28.83
29.83
10.32
4.59
0.97
1.60
3.94
11.81
13.12
21.11
25.90
15.62
14.54
11.14
9.23
1.51
0.61
0.00
0.04
0.52
3.15
3.12
5.82
8.17
4.80
3.48
1.94
1.12
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.79
0.43
0.65
1.45
0.82
0.48
0.25
0.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.28
0.00
0.02
0.30
0.12
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.09
0.01
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.01
12.22
11.32
11.50
9.28
7.70
7.34
7.33
7.94
9.19
9.75
10.89
11.45
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
100.00
1.5
99.46
2.0
98.13
2.5
91.23
3.0
77.66
3.5
65.14
4.0
54.03
4.5
45.37
5.0
37.82
5.5
29.62
6.0
21.94
6.5
17.68
7.0
14.33
7.5
11.95
8.0
10.21
8.5
8.47
9.0
6.53
9.5*
5.08
15.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.79

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.72
95.96
89.62
80.56
69.90
57.41
43.94
35.47
27.35
21.10
16.26
11.88
9.51
7.74
6.36
5.07
4.09
2.93
0.00
4.20

Mar
100.00
100.00
99.37
97.71
93.38
84.36
72.23
59.78
48.13
37.36
29.07
22.06
16.22
11.62
7.93
5.81
4.44
3.27
2.33
1.54
0.00
4.25

Apr
100.00
99.97
99.14
90.42
71.92
51.07
35.44
23.54
15.92
10.41
6.72
4.17
2.55
1.48
1.00
0.54
0.25
0.15
0.08
0.00
0.00
2.82

May
100.00
100.00
91.75
62.98
37.21
22.53
13.22
8.77
5.50
3.44
2.58
1.58
0.96
0.30
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.00

Jun
100.00
100.00
92.18
61.06
33.04
15.86
7.10
2.58
0.73
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.81

Jul
100.00
100.00
88.23
55.06
29.73
16.57
7.62
2.82
0.66
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.75

Aug
100.00
100.00
92.16
61.74
35.17
21.00
12.41
7.45
4.41
2.44
1.03
0.33
0.15
0.12
0.07
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.94

Sep
100.00
100.00
95.06
80.11
62.28
45.43
31.37
21.59
15.17
10.68
7.48
5.23
3.56
2.13
1.62
1.42
1.23
1.03
0.85
0.76
0.00
2.70

Oct
100.00
100.00
99.78
92.17
71.75
53.05
37.69
26.46
20.14
15.72
10.38
7.44
5.36
4.05
2.75
2.27
1.67
1.21
1.11
0.94
0.00
3.03

Nov
100.00
100.00
100.00
97.50
88.92
74.94
61.10
48.21
34.91
24.24
16.90
12.19
8.24
5.35
3.73
2.67
1.96
1.17
0.52
0.31
0.00
3.67

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.81
95.98
86.50
73.57
57.08
44.09
32.32
24.18
17.20
12.04
8.53
6.05
4.70
3.55
2.78
2.28
1.49
0.00
4.12

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
9.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 9.5m to 15.5m.

Year
100.00
100.00
96.42
82.74
67.12
53.45
41.47
31.62
23.89
18.06
13.58
10.04
7.24
5.24
3.90
3.08
2.46
1.92
1.47
1.08
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

NE

30%
20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

15.5

8.5

9.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.5m in 0.5m intervals and 9.5 to 15.5m
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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15000: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
1

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
436

401

397

424

402

331

339

384

3114

78835

895

1206

1178

1207

1174

1305

1383

1244

9592

75721

1446

1627

1727

2184

2672

3011

2813

1899

17379

66129

1487

1584

1500

2011

3345

4686

3557

1956

20126

48750

1303

761

899

1608

2465

4848

3128

1294

16306

28624

539

258

285

549

1445

3112

1820

529

8537

12318

99

56

77

199

632

1136

712

222

3133

3781

32

122

230

98

53

553

648

21

41

11

10

85

95

10

18707

13868

3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
13
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

6219

5893

6068

8216

12281

7591

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.5m in 0.5m intervals and 9.5 to 15.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.5
15.5
20.0
Total

NE

151
842
1394
1368
1274
876
690
382
306
171
131
99
51
24
16
16
11
14
32

623
2172
1680
1258
791
495
362
234
125
62
24
8
13
8
12
1

62
498
496
414
223
241
122
86
35
19
38
22

SE
2
23
103
145
204
194
184
116
80
77
35
24
16
15
5

7848

7868

2256

1223

SW

NW

30
232
541
523
523
416
322
276
133
129
101
61
41
7
2
4
2
7
1

856
3380
3905
3762
3292
2896
2302
1742
1537
1267
990
682
489
325
212
195
152
154
398

955
3377
3754
2895
2733
2371
1936
1621
1196
1011
822
626
403
249
219
187
172
120
375

120
186
397
352
416
290
243
177
120
97
77
63
48
28
27
22
15
14
47

Total
2
2820
10790
12312
10776
9446
7769
6093
4598
3529
2791
2207
1577
1060
646
488
425
352
309
853

3351

28536

25022

2739

78843

CFD
78843
78841
76021
65231
52919
42143
32697
24928
18835
14237
10708
7917
5710
4133
3073
2427
1939
1514
1162
853

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Hebrides97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15000_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15000: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.5m in 0.5m intervals and 9.5 to 15.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

15.5
9.5
9.0
8.5
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

1
1
1
5
0.3

3114

9592

17379 20126 16306

8537

3133

553

85

78843

12
10
17
21
43
76
164
303
498
924
1404
2154
2896
3308
2781
1364
326
5

76
92
134
166
190
251
440
727
1126
1301
1381
1200
877
422
135
19

432
159
161
186
213
268
362
419
409
258
160
78
24
3
1

260
43
35
40
34
41
40
21
28
9
2

63
5
4
7
4
2

853
309
352
425
488
646
1060
1577
2207
2791
3529
4598
6093
7769
9446
10776
12312
10790
2820
2
Total

1
5
1
3
8
3
4
3
44
1
10
18
78
2
5
15
124
9
15
37
238
2
27
88
465
16
47
228
875
45
170
527
1554
115
341
1005 2574
184
666
1795 3884
300
1016
3056 5020
582
2184
5042 4178
1223 3471
5026 1064
632
1636
538
9
2
1.6
3.4
5.5
8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.5m in 0.5m intervals and 9.5 to 15.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

30

644

3349

5833

10077

13186

11630

10964

8875

6029

4009

2508

1/10

1119

367

194

Total Samples 78843

25

1/20

78843

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

15.5

1/100
20

177

332

199

80

43

853

9.5
3

36

131

101

31

309

12

94

128

79

24

15

352

19

162

137

74

17

65

163

137

84

27

488

15

123

210

156

81

49

11

646

11

68

254

269

191

120

80

38

29

9.0

8.5
4

425

8.0

7.5

7.0
1060

6.5
1

46

210

441

308

244

173

101

34

16

1577

12

111

491

526

450

284

192

85

36

10

10

2207

45

254

675

591

510

285

237

111

45

34

2791

191

523

809

727

479

378

278

107

17

12

3529

41

559

841

926

773

685

505

187

48

15

16

4598

6.0

5.5

5.0

4.5

4.0
8

298

1010

1107

1086

974

789

470

195

112

37

76

953

1389

1221

1355

1377

816

343

147

72

12

6093

7769

13

448

1589

1672

1600

1816

1323

587

245

104

34

9446

3.5

3.0

2.5
3

117

1332

1780

2049

2173

1872

1019

272

77

50

17

20

1076

1848

2047

3074

2350

1161

511

130

66

20

10

419

1646

1400

2561

2744

1306

443

125

42

40

54

17

200

493

720

800

440

86

30

12

15

10776

2.0
1

12312

1.5
10790

1.0
2820

0.5
2

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Hebrides97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15000_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15000: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15354


58.854N, 12.218W

NEXT Grid Point 15354


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.99
99.99 100.00 99.99
99.97
99.99
99.99
98.58
98.12
98.79
97.65
94.29
92.99
95.00
93.25
98.12
98.12
98.49
98.45
96.81
94.40
92.32
94.65
87.04
72.84
72.41
74.98
77.64
87.41
91.04
93.06
93.35
85.89
82.52
81.48
82.24
62.15
43.44
40.68
43.44
45.26
62.99
70.23
77.90
82.17
64.45
61.79
60.38
58.89
34.22
19.05
14.03
14.98
17.45
32.21
39.80
51.33
58.21
38.42
38.76
32.55
31.37
12.43
4.87
1.53
2.32
4.20
12.05
17.90
23.01
28.42
17.39
16.09
12.16
10.47
1.79
0.34
0.40
0.31
0.39
3.44
4.94
6.51
8.15
5.39
3.72
3.62
1.39
0.23
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.63
1.18
1.13
1.15
1.07
0.85
0.68
0.37
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.22
0.04
0.11
0.19
0.20
0.13
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.02
0.09
0.02
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.01
12.53
12.05
11.90
9.46
7.81
7.46
7.69
7.95
9.53
10.30
11.08
11.66
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.5
10.0*
16.0
Mean HSIG

Jan
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
98.86
93.42
82.14
70.61
60.13
50.49
41.32
33.46
25.76
20.41
16.26
13.37
11.43
9.58
7.88
6.14
4.50
0.00
5.03

Feb
100.00
100.00
100.00
97.13
94.32
88.06
78.29
65.40
53.18
43.38
35.17
26.41
19.92
15.21
11.86
9.16
7.64
6.69
5.63
4.65
3.38
0.00
4.62

Mar
100.00
100.00
100.00
98.57
95.20
89.51
77.58
65.57
51.64
41.57
32.52
25.10
18.73
14.42
11.01
8.28
6.47
5.29
4.06
2.90
2.03
0.00
4.53

Apr
100.00
99.97
99.95
95.63
78.49
55.69
38.69
26.01
17.78
12.53
8.02
5.07
3.29
2.19
1.58
1.17
0.88
0.56
0.39
0.20
0.11
0.00
2.99

May
100.00
100.00
94.52
68.78
43.32
26.32
16.99
10.41
5.96
4.02
1.85
1.25
0.63
0.43
0.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.12

Jun
100.00
100.00
94.63
64.65
36.76
18.98
8.06
3.47
1.53
0.96
0.37
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.89

Jul
100.00
100.00
92.14
61.65
34.51
18.57
8.78
4.14
1.22
0.40
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.85

Aug
100.00
100.00
92.26
64.13
37.12
21.21
13.73
9.67
6.24
3.90
1.90
1.02
0.54
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.01

Sep
100.00
100.00
96.30
84.54
65.69
46.47
33.49
24.15
17.01
11.65
7.50
5.25
3.69
2.22
1.42
1.16
0.94
0.79
0.57
0.48
0.43
0.00
2.78

Oct
100.00
100.00
100.00
94.50
79.28
60.65
44.89
33.54
25.08
19.36
14.45
10.79
8.05
6.33
5.11
3.87
3.14
2.27
1.54
1.22
0.99
0.00
3.33

Nov
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.00
92.44
81.36
66.56
52.99
41.13
28.83
20.46
14.06
10.73
7.95
5.94
4.26
2.92
1.70
1.20
0.86
0.54
0.00
3.92

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.63
97.13
91.23
80.78
66.28
51.02
37.81
28.35
20.22
15.32
11.31
8.32
6.51
4.85
3.67
2.73
2.15
1.60
0.00
4.41

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
10.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 10.0m to 16.0m.

Year
100.00
100.00
97.46
85.59
70.94
57.46
45.67
35.89
27.55
21.15
15.92
11.84
8.85
6.69
5.11
3.97
3.18
2.53
1.99
1.54
1.12
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

NE

30%
20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
2

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

10

8.5

9.5

16

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 16.0m
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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15354: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
306

316

308

332

310

261

385

291

2509

78837

727

842

1038

1019

1127

1390

1477

992

8612

76328

1332

1458

1789

1701

2655

3246

2924

1799

16904

67716

1618

1278

1400

1980

3617

4721

3915

1995

20524

50812

1059

798

837

1534

2914

4817

3341

1279

16579

30288

481

388

363

751

1710

3017

2196

553

9459

13709

139

79

98

231

603

1175

910

168

3403

4250

37

53

86

271

189

43

687

847

35

44

33

16

143

160

12

17

3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
10
28.50
32.70
5
51.50
Total

5711

5160

5840

7606

13059

18955

15374

7138

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 16.0m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.5
10.0
16.0
20.0
Total

NE

SE

33
564
1052
1273
1135
934
812
425
327
285
119
93
46
27
25
24
21
20
9
39

318
1758
1610
1133
1007
650
347
250
191
95
49
29
13
5
7
14
13
3
2

163
381
397
387
140
141
78
59
64
90
51
22
20
12
12
5

20
151
289
291
310
243
208
166
121
107
81
36
24
16
7
10
16
13
5

7263

7494

2022

2114

S
2
61
488
1082
1191
1179
1015
946
651
536
400
307
190
141
99
58
57
46
43
43
78

SW

NW

625
2922
3426
3482
2944
2647
2334
1853
1508
1195
946
715
506
374
275
182
157
105
108
393

692
2871
3282
2521
2315
1873
1698
1453
1248
949
743
576
466
350
227
211
165
160
152
349

88
225
412
351
262
211
153
187
126
100
61
44
24
22
12
5
11
10
9
26

Total
2
2000
9360
11550
10629
9292
7714
6576
5044
4121
3221
2357
1705
1240
905
623
508
429
354
328
885

8613

26697

22301

2339

78843

CFD
78843
78841
76841
67481
55931
45302
36010
28296
21720
16676
12555
9334
6977
5272
4032
3127
2504
1996
1567
1213
885

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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15354: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 16.0m

Total Samples 78843


Total

16.0
10.0
9.5
9.0
8.5
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

2509

5
1
2
15
25
58
92
143
291
456
948
473

1
1
2
2

0.3

1.6

8612

16904 20524 16579

9459

3403

687

143

12

78843

1
6
7
22
46
58
106
162
342
603
975
1696
2561
3091
2998
2420
1279
205
1

79
67
91
139
195
264
352
572
861
1252
1609
1552
1076
837
403
104
6

344
186
196
208
218
250
377
438
387
310
228
153
76
28
4

339
58
50
53
42
35
40
31
16
13
6
3
1

106
11
8
5
4
5
1
1
1
1

11

885
328
354
429
508
623
905
1240
1705
2357
3221
4121
5044
6576
7714
9292
10629
11550
9360
2000
2
Total

1
2
3
4
2
5
5
6
13
2
6
28
1
4
92
2
16
160
15
58
328
24
132
546
79
252
974
158
596
1808
286
1180 2750
575
1964 4085
1101
3027 4923
1922
4973 3994
3232
4370
807
1206
318
3
2
3.4
5.5
8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 16.0m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

19

347

2613

5603

10289

13726

12012

11838

8857

6193

3735

2208

1/10

938

298

145

Total Samples 78843

20

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

16.0
51

1/100

20

197

322

200

90

41

164

89

27

885

328

82

168

71

27

354

24

153

147

57

22

14

11

429

43

188

112

95

54

11

508

623

1240

10.0

9.5

9.0

8.5

8.0
4

91

236

125

67

66

33

28

186

294

181

115

69

31

101

380

330

236

112

64

11

16

234

539

427

249

155

40

17

18

7.5
905

7.0

6.5
10

1705

6.0
94

570

592

504

280

213

52

31

21

2357

391

936

704

517

324

206

96

18

3221

5.5
23
5.0
3

131

804

1044

886

621

370

185

61

12

28

445

1120

1179

981

728

329

151

58

15

4121

5044

181

1139

1324

1580

1149

661

317

158

41

13

6576

4.5

4.0
5
3.5
38

716

1485

1449

1721

1274

665

254

80

28

272

1429

2100

1966

1886

1026

415

133

33

19

7714

9292

54

1098

2320

2758

2101

1368

700

134

60

23

10629

3.0

2.5

2.0
12

738

1946

2685

2910

1874

929

236

121

47

46

172

1367

1810

2362

2402

841

249

35

50

38

30

15

160

446

434

565

333

26

11550

1.5
9360

1.0
2000

0.5
2

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15354: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15121


58.788N, 7.021W

NEXT Grid Point 15121


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 99.98 100.00 99.98 100.00 99.92
99.99
99.99
99.98
99.99 100.00 100.00 99.99
97.65
95.45
97.97
96.19
91.37
92.93
94.08
93.98
95.71
97.40
98.19
99.04
95.83
92.14
86.62
92.35
84.60
71.14
74.75
71.80
76.95
82.95
88.98
92.62
92.94
83.97
78.84
74.40
77.01
62.24
44.49
40.57
40.17
45.53
60.31
66.46
76.42
79.76
62.11
58.74
54.12
56.39
32.85
19.17
13.27
14.45
18.72
32.31
36.56
50.73
53.84
36.67
34.98
29.29
29.43
10.72
5.21
1.03
1.93
4.75
11.88
12.86
21.51
25.00
15.66
14.05
9.88
9.22
1.62
0.94
0.00
0.04
0.45
3.70
2.78
5.60
7.75
4.65
3.18
1.53
1.34
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.63
0.39
0.39
1.19
0.72
0.34
0.30
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.22
0.00
0.00
0.22
0.09
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.07
0.01
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.01
12.03
11.22
11.49
9.28
7.79
7.46
7.47
7.99
9.32
9.77
10.89
11.35
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
100.00
1.5
99.31
2.0
97.15
2.5
89.38
3.0
74.09
3.5
61.43
4.0
50.87
4.5
42.18
5.0
32.99
5.5
24.66
6.0
19.70
6.5
15.71
7.0
12.76
7.5
9.68
8.0
7.67
8.5
6.44
9.0*
4.93
14.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.54

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.51
95.47
88.93
78.88
66.82
52.36
41.09
31.22
23.67
17.76
13.01
10.00
7.63
6.13
4.78
3.74
2.78
0.00
3.99

Mar
100.00
100.00
99.40
97.43
92.74
82.93
69.69
56.14
44.58
34.39
26.87
19.87
14.25
9.47
6.65
4.84
3.35
2.61
1.79
0.00
4.10

Apr
100.00
99.97
98.90
90.49
70.05
47.80
32.34
22.24
14.50
9.28
6.25
3.98
2.19
1.36
0.82
0.49
0.25
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.75

May
100.00
100.00
91.48
61.92
36.75
21.90
13.24
8.53
4.90
3.17
2.21
1.20
0.49
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.98

Jun
100.00
100.00
92.22
59.86
32.59
16.13
6.45
2.55
0.66
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.81

Jul
100.00
100.00
87.45
55.42
30.00
15.27
7.08
2.49
0.67
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.74

Aug
100.00
100.00
92.17
60.79
35.39
20.72
12.00
7.45
4.20
2.46
0.76
0.18
0.13
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.93

Sep
100.00
100.00
94.88
79.75
60.97
44.43
30.71
21.42
14.44
10.29
6.77
4.77
3.21
2.04
1.53
1.22
1.02
0.91
0.76
0.00
2.65

Oct
100.00
100.00
99.70
90.84
69.27
51.42
35.93
24.77
18.96
13.94
9.37
6.48
4.44
2.96
2.18
1.54
1.30
1.09
0.91
0.00
2.93

Nov
100.00
100.00
99.65
96.79
87.89
74.27
59.48
45.96
32.31
22.30
15.05
10.20
6.34
4.10
2.38
1.53
1.03
0.60
0.19
0.00
3.55

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.64
94.19
83.66
68.71
52.52
39.58
28.76
20.91
13.90
9.33
6.78
5.08
3.91
2.97
2.03
1.27
0.00
3.93

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
9.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 9.0m to 14.5m.

Year
100.00
100.00
96.25
82.21
66.18
52.09
39.58
29.72
22.15
16.46
12.04
8.55
6.07
4.36
3.24
2.43
1.85
1.45
1.05
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

30%

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

8.5

14.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.0m in 0.5m intervals and 9.0 to 14.5m
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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15121: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
1

11

78843

418

453

440

445

443

377

337

360

3273

78832

929

1157

1167

1244

1181

1326

1324

1028

9356

75559

1371

1669

1715

2091

2623

3054

2741

1968

17232

66203

1470

1691

1583

1842

3341

4639

3563

1928

20057

48971

1141

766

836

1477

2716

5042

3310

1281

16569

28914

445

276

324

489

1467

3272

1829

577

8679

12345

81

65

73

128

674

1118

761

198

3098

3666

16

96

222

102

45

497

568

10

32

11

10

63

71

19089

13987

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
9
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

5864

6078

6146

7733

12551

7395

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.0m in 0.5m intervals and 9.0 to 14.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
14.5
20.0
Total

NE

SE

SW

27

922

NW

Total

CFD

945

126

2
2952

78843
78841

164

663

100

2
5

861
1362

2304
1868

482
482

80
128

187
378

3401
3978

3461
3973

295
467

11071
12636

75889
64818

1417
1328

1224
780

360
248

133
110

444
440

3770
3416

3245
3128

518
417

11111
9867

52182
41071

894
624

517
343

165
120

120
51

317
239

2890
2050

2483
2288

388
248

7774
5963

31204
23430

381
290

195
78

68
54

56
35

161
61

1647
1435

1800
1379

184
154

4492
3486

17467
12975

178
137

34
21

23
28

6
5

71
39

1215
761

1120
879

99
86

2746
1956

9489
6743

62
41

9
8

9
3

540
364

639
427

90
41

1349
884

4787
3438

19
18

9
13

3
3

232
157

352
244

20
22

635
457

2554
1919

139
126

160
162

11
16

322
314

1462
1140

209

525

62

826

826

27252

27210

3244

78843

9
10
30
7825

8066

2130

731

2385

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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15121: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.0m in 0.5m intervals and 9.0 to 14.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

11

3273

9356

17232 20057 16569

8679

3098

497

63

78843

1
1

4
5

89
79

443
178

231
49

50
2

826
314

1
6

14
38

120
173

139
186

43
50

5
4

322
457

75
135

260
355

262
357

32
25

4
9

635
884

14.5
9.0
8.5
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0

6
5

9
23

38
89

241
406

642
948

391
465

22
19

1349
1956

7
7

13
21

29
66

185
439

816
1258

1343
1488

336
200

17
7

2746
3486

15
38

40
118

211
419

792
1521

2019
2851

1317
979

98
36

4492
5963

124
218

320
694

994
1747

2314
3830

3365
3181

649
196

6
1

1
2

298
630

1012
2029

3038
4978

4974
4591

1747
406

41

3
4

1298
637

3477
1621

5033
681
1

1252
9
1

5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

7774
9867
11111
12636
11071
2952
2

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.0m in 0.5m intervals and 9.0 to 14.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

50

681

3122

5811

9455

13115

12263

11742

9476

6208

3724

2038

1/10

720

289

139

Total Samples 78843

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

14.5

1/100
43

323

274

104

58

24

826

106

138

42

10

314

9.0

8.5
13

121

133

37

13

322

51

179

134

62

24

457

113

274

117

79

32

14

635

28

259

285

163

108

34

160

424

343

210

107

45

36

15

1349

88

427

545

419

252

116

61

28

13

1956

8.0

7.5

7.0
884

6.5

6.0

5.5
1

39

205

746

687

523

243

199

77

15

11

12

140

492

836

793

522

307

213

86

48

32

2746

73

381

794

937

939

575

495

213

60

12

12

4492

5.0
5

3486

4.5

4.0
9

218

824

1171

1200

1017

868

407

174

45

23

5963

110

808

1285

1361

1526

1312

734

346

182

80

26

7774

15

529

1365

1630

1703

2051

1488

707

241

93

28

11

9867

3.5
1
3.0
3
2.5
1

166

1391

1651

2035

2249

2092

1040

320

80

54

19

39

1039

1716

2011

3217

2556

1214

625

127

54

32

25

449

1490

1338

2381

3079

1503

482

154

55

62

53

22

185

412

717

935

478

131

37

19

11111

2.0
12636

1.5
11071

1.0
2952

0.5
2

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Hebrides97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15121_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15121: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15298


58.546N, 9.604W

NEXT Grid Point 15298


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.98 100.00 99.96
99.97 100.00 100.00 99.99
99.99
98.79
97.48
99.10
96.51
93.79
93.69
95.06
95.50
97.30
98.37
98.56
98.79
96.91
94.17
91.73
94.43
86.01
74.10
74.48
74.92
78.53
86.11
91.37
92.36
93.68
85.96
82.01
80.20
80.52
63.66
45.09
42.82
45.03
47.61
64.04
71.68
78.46
82.03
65.18
61.58
58.55
58.66
34.16
19.58
14.41
16.04
19.99
33.72
40.86
51.54
56.78
38.73
38.31
30.74
32.30
11.60
5.11
1.88
2.76
4.60
13.06
15.69
22.45
27.20
17.09
14.91
11.27
10.41
1.76
0.48
0.09
0.18
0.40
3.83
4.38
6.00
8.30
5.14
3.69
2.44
1.22
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.02
0.99
0.49
1.36
0.93
0.57
0.23
0.27
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.17
0.09
0.02
0.30
0.14
0.13
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.12
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.04
0.00
12.45
11.81
11.88
9.42
7.90
7.59
7.76
8.12
9.60
10.27
11.03
11.61
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
100.00
1.5
99.88
2.0
98.19
2.5
91.77
3.0
79.69
3.5
67.68
4.0
57.56
4.5
49.18
5.0
40.72
5.5
33.07
6.0
25.82
6.5
19.93
7.0
15.88
7.5
13.21
8.0
10.95
8.5
9.67
9.0
7.71
9.5
6.04
10.0*
4.74
15.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.97

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.84
96.51
93.05
85.09
73.82
61.66
50.89
40.82
31.85
24.12
18.39
14.00
10.59
8.55
7.23
6.28
5.49
4.46
3.76
0.00
4.47

Mar
100.00
100.00
99.87
98.36
94.52
87.75
75.87
62.28
50.85
41.48
32.46
24.57
18.48
14.34
10.95
7.98
6.38
5.06
4.23
3.11
2.21
0.00
4.47

Apr
100.00
99.97
99.74
93.65
75.64
53.36
36.60
25.25
16.77
11.55
7.77
4.63
2.95
1.75
1.36
1.03
0.76
0.56
0.32
0.19
0.15
0.00
2.93

May
100.00
100.00
92.92
66.97
40.26
25.68
15.52
9.56
5.71
3.93
2.32
1.45
0.81
0.37
0.19
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.08

Jun
100.00
100.00
93.30
65.69
36.84
18.21
7.42
3.30
1.71
0.93
0.49
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.89

Jul
100.00
100.00
91.98
59.67
34.08
18.57
9.73
4.05
1.43
0.49
0.15
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.85

Aug
100.00
100.00
92.87
64.42
38.03
21.12
13.88
9.81
6.45
3.63
1.58
0.51
0.15
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.02

Sep
100.00
100.00
94.75
82.44
64.77
46.40
34.60
24.55
17.19
12.24
8.61
6.20
4.03
2.98
2.22
1.76
1.30
1.03
0.91
0.77
0.62
0.00
2.80

Oct
100.00
100.00
100.00
93.65
76.98
57.98
42.38
30.43
23.71
18.17
14.22
10.61
7.54
5.62
4.21
3.09
2.27
1.81
1.46
1.12
0.90
0.00
3.24

Nov
100.00
100.00
100.00
98.16
90.86
79.21
65.40
51.62
38.64
28.21
19.71
14.20
9.95
7.15
5.31
3.89
2.62
1.60
0.93
0.43
0.25
0.00
3.84

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.52
96.65
89.35
76.76
61.39
47.36
36.25
26.75
19.19
13.28
9.81
7.75
6.17
4.63
3.69
2.99
2.58
2.08
0.00
4.30

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
10.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 10.0m to 15.5m.

Year
100.00
100.00
97.09
84.82
69.84
56.05
44.16
34.17
26.42
20.49
15.49
11.52
8.42
6.31
4.86
3.80
3.00
2.46
1.99
1.55
1.22
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

NE

30%
20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
2

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

10

8.5

9.5

15.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 15.5m
V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Hebrides97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15298_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15298: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

78843

381

312

281

328

299

251

249

327

2428

78836

930

901

1211

1064

1036

1190

1276

1028

8636

76408

1308

1547

1685

1745

2663

3055

2578

1804

16385

67772

1459

1580

1631

1883

3610

4893

3772

2026

20854

51387

1085

830

752

1391

3172

4973

3500

1358

17061

30533

510

319

294

625

1577

3510

2122

459

9416

13472

105

105

98

165

555

1245

876

175

3324

4056

18

116

286

141

33

624

732

17

35

13

22

89

108

16

19

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
26
24.50
28.50
32.70
3
51.50
Total

5806

5597

5956

7221

13046

19449

14532

7236

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 15.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.5
10.0
15.5
20.0
Total

NE

SE

47
628
1119
1388
1214
1030
763
327
323
240
139
65
32
21
39
28
16
12
4
36

518
1963
1654
1227
715
520
354
167
129
104
36
10
3
3
7
14

93
361
335
328
144
115
56
69
53
61
21
10
23
7

5
54
279
209
254
134
99
70
75
47
61
16
13
4
3

7471

7424

1676

1323

S
2
56
432
761
1056
985
808
667
497
391
326
210
146
90
53
36
25
23
21
26
35

SW

NW

683
2977
3637
3438
3192
2917
2055
1823
1619
1254
1027
747
511
322
260
167
154
151
96
474

773
2944
3535
2803
2571
2097
1904
1557
1218
1011
861
597
458
407
274
180
171
149
129
375

121
314
489
419
300
257
216
161
134
88
93
70
16
18
11
8
8
16
8
38

Total
2
2296
9673
11809
10868
9375
7878
6114
4671
3942
3131
2448
1661
1146
835
630
422
372
349
263
958

6646

27504

24014

2785

78843

CFD
78843
78841
76545
66872
55063
44195
34820
26942
20828
16157
12215
9084
6636
4975
3829
2994
2364
1942
1570
1221
958

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Hebrides97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15298_HSIG/DMDIR(FROM)_77-79/89-94

Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15298: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 15.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

15.5
10.0
9.5
9.0
8.5
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

2428

8636

16385 20854 17061

9416

3324

624

89

16

78843

2
3
13
19
34
74
126
186
343
600
926
1603
2294
3000
3368
2562
1607
295
6

90
64
94
130
164
256
308
511
839
1347
1596
1546
1144
751
435
128
13

458
144
198
178
180
231
338
387
382
340
273
120
65
24
6

313
50
42
41
41
57
27
24
16
9
3

76
2
2
2
1
2
3
1

16

958
263
349
372
422
630
835
1146
1661
2448
3131
3942
4671
6114
7878
9375
10868
11809
9673
2296
2
Total

1
2
4
6
6
27
2
10
25
1
1
10
69
26
126
2
9
38
284
17
18
123
515
13
74
215
865
1
34
142
526
1637
1
70
349
1006 2643
138
532
1915 4100
213
961
3000 5074
496
1850
4632 4536
2
1008 3353
4364
940
4
436
1345
509
2
2
0.3
1.6
3.4
5.5
8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
24.5
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

28.5

32.7

V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Hebrides97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15298_HSIG/WS_77-79/89-94

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 15.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

31

349

2840

6191

9970

13164

11948

11189

8889

6560

3955

2236

1/10

1023

299

162

Total Samples 78843

33

1/20

78843

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

15.5
1/100

166

400

263

77

42

22

147

72

17

958

263

76

178

79

12

349

10.0

9.5

9.0
3

135

161

51

17

372

31

169

126

62

24

422

630

8.5

8.0
7

103

209

131

109

45

20

24

164

271

154

87

79

31

25

835

87

293

349

219

101

67

21

1146

17

206

517

429

244

138

70

21

13

1661

103

566

616

557

286

187

76

23

27

2448

18

356

893

721

488

331

197

83

31

13

7.5
7.0

6.5

6.0

5.5
3131

5.0
5

155

782

871

805

571

433

211

89

15

28

434

1032

1017

859

767

351

107

50

21

3942

147

1001

1296

1289

999

709

418

150

66

17

11

6114

7878

4.5
4671

4.0
3.5
22

783

1656

1392

1476

1324

839

236

105

36

286

1566

1930

1697

1879

1108

595

215

60

23

77

1547

2155

2287

2095

1464

923

216

52

40

3.0
5

9375

2.5
5

10868

2.0
9

849

2226

2244

2904

2039

1014

322

98

56

48

11809

181

1459

1610

2278

2496

1060

371

95

48

38

32

9673

26

156

451

493

764

281

76

24

13

1.5

1.0
2296

0.5
2

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


V7R6M0 - Q:\C50097\Data\Phase2\Hebrides97.mdb~F2S_NEXT15298_HSIG/TP_77-79/89-94

Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15298: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15482


57.692N, 9.799W

NEXT Grid Point 15482


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.99 100.00 99.99 100.00 99.95
99.99 100.00 100.00 99.99
98.76
97.74
99.03
96.03
91.44
93.36
93.83
94.20
96.19
98.24
97.28
98.43
96.21
93.72
92.24
93.83
82.32
70.00
72.21
73.41
75.56
82.53
90.54
90.59
92.92
84.12
80.54
79.69
79.64
60.26
42.22
40.65
42.56
44.77
61.02
70.30
75.96
78.84
62.94
60.40
58.37
57.78
31.61
18.48
13.26
14.10
19.08
32.72
40.62
51.28
54.03
37.54
37.42
30.59
31.25
10.61
4.27
1.65
1.93
4.99
13.38
15.79
20.91
28.03
16.68
14.94
11.50
10.52
1.54
0.45
0.15
0.00
0.31
4.06
5.32
6.11
8.96
5.30
4.38
3.29
1.66
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.77
0.94
0.57
1.90
1.13
0.91
0.61
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.22
0.10
0.00
0.16
0.17
0.06
0.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
12.35
11.82
11.79
9.11
7.65
7.45
7.57
7.92
9.38
10.21
10.84
11.48
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
100.00
1.5
99.81
2.0
97.95
2.5
90.62
3.0
78.32
3.5
67.42
4.0
57.59
4.5
49.66
5.0
41.12
5.5
32.58
6.0
25.81
6.5
20.34
7.0
16.51
7.5
13.16
8.0
11.13
8.5
9.35
9.0
7.73
9.5
6.08
10.0*
5.08
16.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.96

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.84
96.79
92.95
85.54
74.65
62.59
51.63
40.76
32.32
23.76
18.22
13.54
10.76
9.09
7.43
6.41
5.73
4.74
3.86
0.00
4.51

Mar
100.00
100.00
99.97
98.34
94.47
87.71
74.71
62.53
51.52
41.35
32.13
25.04
18.97
15.10
11.62
9.05
7.23
5.68
4.68
3.66
2.66
0.00
4.50

Apr
100.00
99.97
99.75
93.37
75.38
52.62
35.86
24.77
15.98
10.87
7.72
5.22
3.27
2.10
1.56
1.10
0.85
0.56
0.36
0.20
0.14
0.00
2.91

May
100.00
100.00
92.92
67.02
39.02
25.02
15.10
9.01
5.86
3.66
2.20
1.28
0.75
0.27
0.07
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.06

Jun
100.00
100.00
92.99
65.46
36.64
17.02
7.45
3.66
1.88
1.13
0.71
0.20
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.89

Jul
100.00
100.00
91.89
59.47
35.02
18.45
8.81
3.82
1.31
0.55
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.85

Aug
100.00
100.00
92.19
64.48
37.12
21.41
13.67
9.92
6.44
3.90
1.49
0.57
0.15
0.10
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
2.01

Sep
100.00
100.00
94.46
82.27
61.98
45.86
34.57
25.15
17.96
12.18
8.94
5.99
4.14
2.76
2.28
1.99
1.67
1.33
1.03
0.77
0.63
0.00
2.79

Oct
100.00
100.00
100.00
92.64
76.37
58.47
42.69
31.12
24.38
19.02
14.65
10.76
7.75
6.15
4.53
3.08
2.52
2.23
1.79
1.28
0.84
0.00
3.25

Nov
100.00
100.00
100.00
97.93
90.59
79.92
65.79
50.93
37.75
27.73
19.63
13.86
9.44
6.74
4.92
3.92
2.84
2.01
1.10
0.66
0.22
0.00
3.83

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
99.12
96.34
87.46
75.45
61.08
48.27
37.43
27.14
19.85
13.83
10.22
8.69
7.02
5.38
4.36
3.75
2.84
2.34
0.00
4.32

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
10.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 10.0m to 16.5m.

Year
100.00
100.00
96.98
84.63
69.34
55.68
43.77
34.20
26.61
20.61
15.61
11.55
8.50
6.43
5.07
4.02
3.24
2.65
2.17
1.68
1.31
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

NE

30%
20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
2

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

10

8.5

9.5

16.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 16.5m
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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15482: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
1

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
329

321

382

422

398

401

373

360

2986

78837

981

1016

1201

1256

1204

1320

1347

1206

9531

75851

1501

1534

1532

1632

2590

3340

2735

1829

16693

66320

1375

1392

1338

1813

3550

4832

3773

1957

20030

49627

978

672

668

1380

3024

5007

3537

1179

16445

29597

438

273

196

597

1574

3402

2043

451

8974

13152

87

89

106

195

566

1193

868

187

3291

4178

13

20

97

330

235

46

754

887

16

51

34

15

116

133

16

17

3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
1
51.50
Total

5699

5301

5437

7318

13019

19883

14952

7234

78843

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 16.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.5
10.0
16.5
20.0
Total

NE

SE

69
620
1091
1393
1154
958
664
307
289
196
130
53
34
31
28
17
13
9
4
31

537
1884
1691
1143
625
416
255
154
137
76
54
14
7
7
6
7

105
204
215
221
91
72
73
36
44
52
12
8
4
6
9
5

16
134
264
273
275
257
113
80
92
87
45
17
8
18
3

7091

7013

1157

1682

S
2
42
422
754
896
938
749
608
509
400
259
184
144
94
48
26
24
19
27
18
21

SW

NW

683
3004
3480
3374
3134
2498
1987
1672
1468
1302
978
685
414
294
241
168
140
134
101
466

777
3002
3857
3008
2729
2293
2002
1785
1359
1107
887
644
480
413
288
239
193
206
164
467

150
469
705
457
448
300
283
186
154
120
118
68
30
10
12
8
13
12
6
44

Total
2
2379
9739
12057
10765
9394
7543
5985
4729
3943
3199
2408
1633
1071
827
613
468
378
388
293
1029

6184

26223

25900

3593

78843

CFD
78843
78841
76462
66723
54666
43901
34507
26964
20979
16250
12307
9108
6700
5067
3996
3169
2556
2088
1710
1322
1029

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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15482: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 16.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

16.5
10.0
9.5
9.0
8.5
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

2986

9531

16693 20030 16445

8974

3291

754

116

16

78843

10
4
10
23
43
83
147
195
280
606
1058
1573
2271
2858
3145
2562
1343
234

88
74
105
118
188
244
292
470
852
1232
1524
1497
1103
789
303
91
4

449
147
193
172
176
227
315
347
420
397
232
145
53
16
2

366
64
74
60
55
48
41
26
12
5
1
2

99
4
5
3
3
2

16

1029
293
388
378
468
613
827
1071
1633
2408
3199
3943
4729
5985
7543
9394
10765
12057
9739
2379
2
Total

1
2
3
9
3
29
1
3
29
7
62
2
29
137
5
42
337
13
27
161
525
18
65
314
905
37
124
537
1624
70
314
1088 2621
136
752
1903 3950
309
1057
3206 4846
3
691
2098
4800 4231
2
1191 3647
4185
714
1
521
1439
415
3
2
0.3
1.6
3.4
5.5
8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 10.0m in 0.5m intervals and 10.0 to 16.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

36

343

2525

5913

9990

13365

12097

11125

8961

6514

4052

2353

1/10

1060

302

170

Total Samples 78843

34

1/20

78843

1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

16.5
1/100

185

445

276

72

40

33

161

71

24

1029

293

93

179

78

26

388

10.0

9.5

9.0
7

155

138

56

11

378

44

180

134

62

28

13

468

13

93

203

137

101

35

24

613

21

169

251

162

107

67

24

26

75

287

291

213

95

69

23

10

1071

20

204

536

393

260

137

65

12

1633

8.5
5
8.0

7.5
827

7.0

6.5

6.0
85

612

617

499

283

187

60

22

34

2408

24

368

758

802

577

351

191

84

32

11

3199

3943

5.5

5.0
4

144

754

888

770

590

413

219

130

27

36

435

960

1018

902

738

367

180

59

21

10

171

1029

1238

1316

981

686

357

136

45

10

4.5
4729

4.0
5

5985

3.5
26

697

1580

1372

1397

1234

802

292

94

40

315

1506

1862

1680

1883

1191

622

231

67

25

7543

9394

54

1276

2212

2320

2144

1496

893

228

90

42

10765

3.0

2.5

2.0
12

724

2176

2268

3093

2215

1025

309

112

65

55

12057

155

1321

1559

2324

2612

1162

381

110

51

23

30

9739

33

176

422

556

772

266

98

33

11

1.5

1.0
2379

0.5
2

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15482: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15424


57.579N, 8.209W

NEXT Grid Point 15424


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 99.97
99.94
99.97 100.00 99.97
99.96
99.98
99.99
99.98
97.94
97.13
98.64
95.40
89.75
92.84
93.43
93.64
95.82
98.21
97.31
98.09
95.67
91.35
90.13
92.07
80.48
65.70
70.08
71.53
73.14
80.65
88.86
91.02
92.41
82.24
77.48
75.83
76.71
56.74
38.12
36.36
39.01
40.86
58.41
67.93
75.48
77.39
59.94
56.59
53.13
53.96
29.61
15.95
10.66
10.86
16.52
30.69
35.64
49.46
51.73
34.47
33.56
27.02
27.80
9.58
3.42
0.66
1.14
3.70
11.22
12.95
19.71
25.31
14.62
13.85
9.60
8.99
1.03
0.25
0.00
0.00
0.28
2.92
3.69
4.74
8.15
4.44
3.51
2.36
0.93
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.62
0.52
0.35
1.30
0.79
0.61
0.30
0.04
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.11
0.10
0.00
0.18
0.11
0.01
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.06
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
11.88
11.30
11.34
8.87
7.30
7.18
7.31
7.66
9.10
9.80
10.68
11.22
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
100.00
1.5
99.43
2.0
96.47
2.5
87.94
3.0
74.27
3.5
61.84
4.0
52.57
4.5
43.71
5.0
35.25
5.5
26.52
6.0
21.10
6.5
16.74
7.0
12.99
7.5
10.49
8.0
8.85
8.5
7.26
9.0
5.84
9.5*
4.38
14.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.62

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.28
95.77
89.60
79.72
67.48
55.68
44.18
33.90
25.02
19.23
13.82
10.79
8.60
6.79
5.83
4.79
3.86
2.95
0.00
4.12

Mar
100.00
100.00
99.64
97.62
92.96
83.37
69.94
57.02
46.59
35.96
28.34
21.09
16.13
11.61
8.81
6.62
5.23
3.91
2.91
1.48
0.00
4.20

Apr
100.00
99.98
99.29
90.07
69.05
47.74
32.03
21.30
13.92
9.17
6.35
3.98
2.30
1.54
1.07
0.63
0.40
0.29
0.12
0.03
0.00
2.75

May
100.00
100.00
90.02
61.11
34.03
21.71
12.88
7.33
4.65
2.88
1.61
0.76
0.37
0.06
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.94

Jun
100.00
100.00
91.88
61.44
32.18
15.59
6.96
2.70
1.33
0.79
0.11
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.81

Jul
100.00
100.00
89.27
54.93
32.60
15.36
6.86
2.72
0.87
0.28
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.77

Aug
100.00
100.00
91.37
60.91
33.73
20.54
12.59
8.16
4.63
2.51
1.08
0.18
0.12
0.09
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.93

Sep
100.00
100.00
93.53
79.88
58.90
44.04
31.42
23.27
15.93
11.03
7.65
5.00
3.15
2.28
1.87
1.70
1.45
1.19
0.88
0.59
0.00
2.67

Oct
100.00
100.00
99.87
90.63
71.06
52.91
36.96
26.71
20.66
15.95
10.89
7.60
5.80
3.67
2.78
2.21
1.55
1.06
0.88
0.75
0.00
3.01

Nov
100.00
100.00
100.00
97.33
88.40
75.86
61.74
46.53
33.75
23.29
16.33
10.74
6.73
4.63
3.29
2.25
1.51
0.79
0.35
0.17
0.00
3.62

Dec
100.00
100.00
100.00
98.48
94.58
83.26
68.44
54.45
41.29
30.41
21.76
15.68
10.51
8.06
6.29
4.94
4.00
3.23
2.66
1.79
0.00
4.00

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
9.5m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 9.5m to 14.5m.

Year
100.00
100.00
96.15
82.19
65.99
52.19
39.99
30.52
23.28
17.43
12.83
9.20
6.65
4.94
3.79
2.96
2.39
1.87
1.45
1.00
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
40%

NW

NE

30%
20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

14.5

8.5

9.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.5m in 0.5m intervals and 9.5 to 14.5m
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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15424: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

15

78843

330

356

503

480

521

443

403

359

3395

78828

1081

1154

1390

1364

1429

1419

1587

1168

10592

75433

1516

1691

1578

1763

2801

3385

2933

1918

17585

64841

1330

1363

1232

1782

3568

5041

3804

1959

20079

47256

954

710

529

1323

2827

4714

3323

1268

15648

27177

340

213

179

464

1565

3096

1735

433

8025

11529

50

82

76

133

519

1116

738

164

2878

3504

13

80

222

179

37

538

626

16

32

17

16

81

88

19474

14722

7325

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

5603

5571

5503

7317

13328

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.5m in 0.5m intervals and 9.5 to 14.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.5
14.5
20.0
Total

NE

SE

146
1042
1538
1586
1316
897
499
322
202
158
103
43
11
15
11
6
5
5
12

601
1663
1321
678
415
342
183
90
39
22
20

86
177
259
107
76
48
50
30
37
7
1
11
3

37
109
287
242
213
108
71
51
49
37
26

7917

5374

892

1230

S
1
64
456
758
857
715
517
469
415
300
133
106
57
25
12
16
9
3
2

4915

SW

NW

919
3487
3703
3548
3193
2572
1947
1628
1450
1211
841
492
368
252
162
151
87
139
284

917
3489
4072
3208
3116
2549
2199
1862
1347
1149
810
681
467
359
246
233
215
199
448

261
584
839
652
574
433
295
211
206
142
102
65
30
21
12
14
18
8
48

Total
1
3031
11007
12777
10878
9618
7466
5713
4609
3630
2859
2009
1349
904
659
447
413
328
353
792

26434

27566

4515

78843

CFD
78843
78842
75811
64804
52027
41149
31531
24065
18352
13743
10113
7254
5245
3896
2992
2333
1886
1473
1145
792

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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15424: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.5m in 0.5m intervals and 9.5 to 14.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

15

14.5
9.5
9.0
8.5
8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
0.0

3395

10592

17585 20079 15648

8025

2878

538

81

78843

4
4
15
33
56
83
153
286
444
912
1455
2167
2669
3075
2679
1339
267
7

63
89
90
155
164
251
392
621
1068
1425
1338
1166
766
341
93
3

381
206
179
179
176
274
306
331
374
232
153
65
19
3

264
52
41
41
42
36
29
22
6
4

73
2
2
3
1

792
353
328
413
447
659
904
1349
2009
2859
3630
4609
5713
7466
9618
10878
12777
11007
3031
1
Total

1
2
8
1
14
4
20
4
21
64
4
18
95
1
10
43
232
2
25
107
550
8
77
245
880
1
24
114
563
1558
102
354
990
2601
154
724
1905 4063
375
1099
3351 4711
5
685
2361
5131 4328
7
1310 4106
4635
942
3
734
1714
571
9
1
0.3
1.6
3.4
5.5
8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
24.5
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

28.5

32.7

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.5m in 0.5m intervals and 9.5 to 14.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

27

508

2661

5517

9348

13393

12518

11583

9626

6762

3783

2034

1/10

785

195

94

Total Samples 78843

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80

14.5

1/100
22

237

357

138

33

792

9.5
73

188

71

19

353

115

160

40

328

413

9.0

8.5
14

167

155

55

19

58

179

113

72

16

447

142

269

135

62

38

659

30

232

309

190

74

52

13

904

8.0

7.5

7.0

6.5
19

154

389

329

236

103

63

33

23

1349

75

470

583

452

213

144

55

11

2009

6.0

5.5
18

225

748

782

554

275

188

47

14

126

562

763

888

661

367

129

62

46

20

2859

3630

34

373

906

939

914

761

344

209

110

14

4609

5.0

4.5

4.0
5

133

909

1054

1237

975

777

373

162

64

19

5713

26

530

1291

1440

1483

1358

848

287

149

41

7466

330

1304

1781

1695

2031

1420

670

285

63

31

9618

14

3.5

3.0

2.5
96

1190

1754

2161

2168

1769

1204

358

101

59

15

876

1887

2088

3061

2693

1401

478

161

70

47

10878

12777

314

1273

1405

2446

3229

1529

512

174

47

33

41

11007

23

179

414

674

1054

442

148

36

12

10

21

2.0

1.5

1.0
1

3031

0.5
1

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15424: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C30 1/98

Grid Point 15609


56.609N, 7.996W

NEXT Grid Point 15609


Mean Wind Speed Percentage Exceedence Distribution
m/s
knots
0.0
0
0.3
1
1.6
4
3.4
7
5.5
11
8.0
17
10.8
22
13.9
28
17.2
34
20.8
41
24.5
48
28.5
56
32.7
64
Mean WS

BF
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
100.00 100.00 100.00 99.98
99.94
99.86
99.93 100.00 99.97
99.97 100.00 100.00
97.41
97.23
98.97
95.61
90.66
93.69
93.80
93.28
95.14
98.09
97.25
98.75
92.02
90.49
92.90
80.93
66.36
70.17
72.00
74.05
81.51
88.75
90.69
92.70
78.00
78.11
77.01
56.48
36.12
37.45
40.93
40.74
57.42
68.52
75.73
75.72
56.75
54.25
53.39
29.82
14.46
11.87
12.89
15.66
31.82
36.85
51.00
52.55
33.65
26.84
28.37
8.46
2.87
1.40
1.75
3.36
11.99
12.49
20.40
26.51
12.78
8.65
7.38
1.19
0.22
0.00
0.06
0.31
2.70
4.08
4.72
8.47
2.73
1.99
0.97
0.03
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.40
0.46
0.48
1.73
0.39
0.31
0.13
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.05
0.09
0.09
0.28
0.00
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
11.85
11.36
11.35
8.86
7.20
7.26
7.48
7.65
9.14
9.85
10.76
11.24

Year
100.00
100.00
99.97
95.82
82.67
60.08
35.00
14.79
4.20
0.73
0.11
0.00
0.00
-

Significant Wave Height Percentage Exceedence Distribution


m
Jan
0.0
100.00
0.5
100.00
1.0
99.69
1.5
99.07
2.0
93.50
2.5
81.41
3.0
68.98
3.5
59.86
4.0
50.51
4.5
41.63
5.0
31.92
5.5
24.06
6.0
18.93
6.5
15.00
7.0
11.21
7.5
9.22
8.0
7.55
8.5
6.17
9.0*
4.48
13.5
0.00
Mean HSIG 4.40

Feb
100.00
100.00
99.23
94.71
87.51
75.83
64.88
53.23
41.65
29.80
22.09
16.72
12.19
9.67
7.61
5.95
4.93
4.12
3.11
0.00
3.96

Mar
100.00
100.00
99.27
96.61
90.10
77.70
64.77
53.84
43.25
34.25
25.77
19.73
14.92
10.98
7.66
5.71
4.32
3.00
2.02
0.00
4.04

Apr
100.00
99.98
98.59
85.93
63.34
41.42
27.80
18.19
12.37
8.12
5.78
3.92
2.21
1.65
1.08
0.73
0.46
0.22
0.14
0.00
2.60

May
100.00
100.00
86.14
53.78
29.79
18.18
10.04
5.84
3.47
1.70
0.91
0.55
0.24
0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.80

Jun
100.00
100.00
88.16
56.84
28.10
13.46
6.25
2.30
1.25
0.66
0.29
0.08
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.73

Jul
100.00
100.00
86.51
51.12
31.12
14.03
6.26
2.76
1.02
0.39
0.10
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.72

Aug
100.00
100.00
87.54
56.17
31.64
17.64
10.77
6.69
4.23
2.09
0.39
0.13
0.09
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
1.84

Sep
100.00
100.00
91.51
76.71
54.66
39.95
29.17
21.22
14.46
9.91
7.10
4.66
2.98
2.15
1.71
1.50
1.27
0.97
0.51
0.00
2.55

Oct
100.00
100.00
99.03
86.72
66.90
47.97
34.45
24.60
18.58
13.79
9.44
6.69
4.75
3.44
2.35
1.75
1.36
1.11
0.90
0.00
2.87

Nov
100.00
100.00
99.61
94.14
84.80
74.35
57.67
44.14
31.17
21.23
14.38
8.63
5.11
3.60
2.39
1.44
0.96
0.77
0.52
0.00
3.47

Dec
100.00
100.00
99.88
97.37
91.67
77.93
62.95
50.03
38.89
27.49
19.13
14.23
10.13
7.89
5.88
4.78
3.88
3.03
2.23
0.00
3.85

* Note that for all significant wave height presentations, class intervals of 0.5m are used up to a value equivalent to the 1% exceedence level, in this case
9.0m. Thereafter, all higher wave heights are grouped into a single class, in this case 9.0m to 13.5m.

Year
100.00
100.00
94.56
78.98
62.62
48.17
36.85
28.44
21.65
15.88
11.41
8.26
5.95
4.52
3.31
2.58
2.05
1.61
1.15
0.00
-

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)

N
30%

NW

NE

20%
10%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
0
0.3

3.4

32.7

24.5

17.2

10.8

5.5

1.6

13.9

20.8

28.5

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)


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Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)

N
45%

NW

30%

NE

15%
0%
Variable
0.00%

SW

SE

78843 Samples

S
1

0
0.5

1.5

2.5

3.5

4.5

5.5

6.5

7.5

8.5

13.5

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.0m in 0.5m intervals and 9.0 to 13.5m
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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Roses
NEXT Grid Point 15609: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Mean Wind Direction (direction from)


N

NE

SE

SW

NW

Total

CFD

0.00
78843
0.30
2

23

78843

333

413

403

430

535

469

366

326

3275

78820

1091

1138

1116

1229

1515

1527

1576

1170

10362

75545

1932

1385

1395

1782

2668

3385

3049

2217

17813

65183

1421

1294

1105

1841

3496

4850

3750

2016

19773

47370

928

641

510

1408

2847

4729

3451

1420

15934

27597

397

215

192

605

1576

3035

1782

549

8351

11663

52

55

68

162

561

948

731

160

2737

3312

30

86

182

132

46

487

575

27

46

10

86

88

14886

7915

78843

Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

1.60
3.40
5.50
8.00
10.80
13.90
17.20
20.80
24.50
28.50
32.70
51.50
Total

6161

5150

4796

7489

13290

19156

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.0m in 0.5m intervals and 9.0 to 13.5m

Dominant Wave Direction (direction from)


0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5

NE

SE

SW

59

1100

NW

Total

CFD

1435

520

1
4287

78843
78842

410

568

151

1159
1344

950
597

330
324

326
376

311
490

2933
3279

5156
5111

1119
1380

12284
12901

74555
62271

1029
624

356
217

190
89

541
403

684
499

2951
2375

4507
3755

1133
962

11391
8924

49370
37979

343
234

175
107

63
65

227
170

371
294

1972
1587

2870
2544

610
350

6631
5351

29055
22424

151
104

44
14

58
14

117
81

301
160

1343
1221

2292
1705

248
226

4554
3525

17073
12519

73
56

12
2

13
8

28
26

136
84

870
542

1191
1030

158
74

2481
1822

8994
6513

11

24
1

35
15

339
316

658
582

51
38

1127
952

4691
3564

9
9

192
114

348
268

29
25

578
416

2612
2034

100
105

233
237

17
17

350
359

1618
1268

190

664

55

909

909

21529

34586

7012

78843

7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
13.5
20.0
Total

1
44

5536

3042

1316

2365

3457

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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual WS & WD and HSIG & DMDIR(FROM) Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15609: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.0m in 0.5m intervals and 9.0 to 13.5m

Total Samples 78843


Total

23

3275

10362

17813 19773 15934

13.5

487

86

78843

909
359

6
10

106
98

458
201

258
45

79
3

2
2

22
38

152
195

138
137

33
44

350
416

64
116

276
463

194
334

31
24

12
12

578
952

4
22

39
87

207
452

532
869

320
370

25
21

1127
1822

1
2

10
10

32
81

184
409

767
1441

1180
1418

301
164

2481
3525

4
40

33
119

193
398

747
1190

2157
2586

1324
997

96
21

4554
5351

58
139

197
468

762
1570

2080
3645

2981
2933

550
169

6631
8924

3
1

284
632

1083
2070

3024
5126

5167
4736

1809
335

21
1

14
5

1061
1054

4055
2316

5701
897

1444
14
1

9
1

8.0
7.5
7.0
6.5
6.0
5.5
5.0
4.5
4.0
3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0

0.5
0.0
0.0

2737

9.0
8.5

1.5
1.0

8351

0.3

1.6

3.4

5.5

11391
12901
12284
4287
1

8.0
10.8
13.9
17.2
20.8
Mean Wind Speed at 10 m asl (m/s)

24.5

28.5

32.7

Total

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Significant Wave Height 0.0 to 9.0m in 0.5m intervals and 9.0 to 13.5m

Lines of Constant Steepness


Total

148

952

3834

6132

9886

12740

12089

10206

8841

6615

3783

2213

1/10

1038

202

142

Total Samples 78843

21

1/20

78843
1/30

1/40

1/60
1/80
1/100

13.5
78

277

321

197

15

21

909

115

148

62

25

359

9.0

8.5
10

121

112

67

37

350

32

145

117

59

50

416

15

106

160

156

69

54

17

578

8.0

7.5

7.0
3

42

220

301

218

101

35

17

13

952

67

101

315

263

186

100

54

21

13

1127

169

293

433

424

214

182

75

16

6.5

6.0
1822

5.5
44

340

558

517

441

250

252

56

10

2481

221

529

586

790

659

414

167

76

44

27

3525

53

646

706

744

893

791

353

206

127

30

10

397

846

859

971

873

754

319

221

76

20

85

989

970

1014

1170

1140

749

265

167

61

11

6631

607

1536

1290

1462

1659

1184

686

338

101

40

8924

11391

5.0

4.5
4554

4.0
5351

3.5

3.0
1
2.5
1

164

1804

1614

1843

2055

1773

1273

562

222

40

31

21

1260

1855

1644

2765

2720

1444

744

235

131

50

27

18

589

1721

1189

2403

3333

1824

754

284

120

23

20

12284

129

337

681

581

1242

774

341

88

24

11

40

28

11

4287

2.0
3

12901

1.5

1.0

0.5
1

0.0
0.0

1.0

2.0

3.0

4.0

5.0

6.0

7.0

8.0

9.0

10.0

11.0

12.0

13.0

14.0

15.0

16.0

17.0

18.0

19.0

20.0

21.0

22.0

23.0

24.0

25.0

26.0

27.0

28.0

29.0

Total

Spectral Peak Period (s)


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Hebrides Shelf
Average Annual HSIG & WS and HSIG & TP Frequency Tables
NEXT Grid Point 15609: January-December; 1977-1979 & 1989-1994

Printed and published by the Health and Safety Executive


C0.35
8/01

ISBN 0-7176-2088-3

OTO 2001/030

35.00

9 780717 620883

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