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v1rev 42013-07-04Federal Maritime and Hydrographical Agency, Germany

mean wave direction

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dominating horizontal direction of the movement of the waves with the highest probability of occurrence

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Code
AAF977
Data type
STRING_TYPE
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Version
1
Revision
4
Preferred name
mean wave direction
Definition
dominating horizontal direction of the movement of the waves with the highest probability of occurrence
Definition source
Federal Maritime and Hydrographical Agency, Germany
Note
Wave and wind direction is expressed as ‘coming from’.
Remark
In practice the direction is applied in textual form either by abbreviations of the geographic directions or in full text instead of being applied in nautical degree, i.e. degree relative to true north positive clockwise.
Drawing reference
M..35
Responsible committee
TC3, SC3D
Published in
NON_DEPENDENT_P_DET
Status level
Standard
Version release date
2015-08-17
Revision release date
2013-07-04
Version initiation date
2015-08-17
MDC_P022
STRING_TYPE
MDC_P040
A14