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Angeles Point buoy cleaned

Ross Timmerman

Feb 12, 2024

CDIP 248 Angeles Point, WA was cleaned of kelp. Keeping this buoy free of kelp ensures good data is recorded.

Hurricane Erin

Elevated wave activity from Hurricane Erin was measured at CDIP stations along the East Coast last week. Peak periods were longer than usual for tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean, due to Erin’s extraordinary size, which added to the power of the waves that impacted the shoreline. Attached bulletin

Aug 27, 2025

July 2025 Tsunami

The tsunami wave generated by the M 8.8 earthquake off Kamchatka was measured by the pressure sensor at station CDIP 073 Scripps Pier on 30 July 2025. Maximum peak-to-peak displacement was ~30 cm, similar to that reported by the co-located tide gauge among the NOAA operated tsunami capable sensors

Jul 30, 2025 1 min read

New Data Product: Wave Partitions

CDIP has a new wave field partitioning data product available at cdip.ucsd.edu for all our wave buoy stations, e.g. cdip.ucsd.edu/m/products/partition/?stn=071p1. To identify and plot individual wave fields as measured by the buoys, 2D spectral estimates are calculated using the maximum

Jul 28, 2025 1 min read

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