EUMETSAT 221d ago

Dive into a year of our dynamic ocean! This mesmerising data visualisation shows the significant wave height across the world's oceans for the entirety of 2024. Watch the world's waves in motion, from the gentle ripples of trade winds to the massive swells generated by powerful winter storms in the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic. This visualisation uses data from ocean altimetry satellites. EUMETSAT operates the Copernicus Sentinel-3, and Sentinel-6 and Jason-3 satellite, which monitor sea level, wave height, wind speed and also ocean currents. Find out more about EUMETSAT’s support for the Copernicus Programme and access ocean data. Data for this visualisation came from the Copernicus Climate Change Service which is operated by ECMWF.