GRIB-API definition
| Name: | Significant height of combined wind waves and swell | Abbreviation: | swh | Unit: | m | paramId: | 140229 | 
UERRA details
| Definition | Better known as the Significant Wave Height. The significant wave height is defined as 4 times the square root of the integral over all directions and all frequencies of the two-dimensional wave spectrum. The integration is performed over all frequencies up to infinity. | 
| Validity | instantaneous | 
| Comment | 
WMO GRIB2 definition
| Parameter | ||
|---|---|---|
| Discipline | 10 | oceanographic products | 
| Parameter category | 0 | waves | 
| Parameter number | 3 | Significant height of combined wind waves and swell | 
| Level | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type of first fixed surface | 101 | Mean sea level | 
| Scale factor of first fixed surface | 0 | |
| Scaled value of first fixed surface | 0 | |
| Type of second fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing | 
| Scale factor of second fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing | 
| Scaled value of second fixed surface | all bits to 1 | missing |