Extreme High Swell Events on the Moroccan Atlantic Coast

5.0 Case Study 2 » 5.4 WW111 SWH, 18 January

The WAVEWATCH III significant wave height field output from 17 January at 0000 UTC to 19 January at 1200 UTC shows an area with maximum wave height values of 9 to 14 m located from north of the Azores Islands to west of the Iberian Peninsula.

On the Moroccan Atlantic coast, the model predicts values between 6 and 9 m during the day of 18 January. These are high compared with climatology.