Most importantly, we’re going to continue to try and make the best app we can – there are plans to add some really cool features to Bombora and I would hate to be distracted from achieving that excellence.

Bombora is an elegant, informative, and comprehensive ocean data application — built specially for surfers, boaters, and everyone else that loves the ocean. Bombora contains a wide selection of tools that provide an arsenal of information for the amateur forecasting tool-belt.

Bombora is an easy-to-use, elegant, and comprehensive ocean data application – built specially for surfers, boaters, and everyone else that loves the ocean like we do. Bombora contains a fantastic selection of tools that provide you with an arsenal of information for your forecasting tool-belt.

We’re extremely excited to share a screenshot of Bombora, our upcoming surf and ocean forecasting application for iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s taken a lot of work to get to this point, and we think things are shaping up pretty spectacularly.

NDBC’s moored buoys measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave height, dominant wave period, and average wave period are derived. Even the direction of wave propagation is measured on many moored buoys.

The list of measurements provided by buoys is rather extensive. Here’s a guide to the various measurements published by NDBC:
Wind Direction (WDIR)
Wind direction (the direction the wind is coming from in degrees clockwise from true N) during the same period used for WSPD.
Wind Speed (WSPD)
Wind speed (m/s) averaged over an eight-minute period for buoys and [...]