# Wave height data for Indian east coast

For my project, I am looking for wave height information. My study area is the Odisha coast of the Bay of Bengal. What I have gathered from various research papers is that significant wave height is considered for the wave height. But I could not find any reliable source of the data.

Does anyone have any idea about where can I get the data?

• check buoyweather website, wave height and wind speed data are available
– Sri
Jan 17 at 10:34

Usually, the most reliable wave data for any of these areas come from the Wavewatch III solutions. Either the global solution or the one for specific regions (there is an Indian Ocean solution). The data is available at the NCEP site (https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/validation/gefsv12/). In terms of what the right metric is for wave height, significant wave height (the average wave height of the top $$\frac{1}{3}$$ of the waves during a specific sample time) is the standard metric used in almost all applications related to wave dynamics.