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Model Parameters Explained
This article helps explain the Forecasting Model's Parameters.
The settings shown here adjust the parameters our model uses to calculate your surf forecast. You can vary the weight of each variable according to your location and personal preferences.
Examples: 1. If you mostly surf reef breaks that require specific tides, then you would increase the Tide Height score from 20 to 30.
2. If you mostly surf a beach break that is only good when the tide is rising, then you would increase Tide Dynamics score from 20 to 30.
3. If you mostly surf a bay that only breaks when the swell's 10 ft. or bigger, then you would increase Swell Size score from 20 to 30.
But Most of us would keep them all near 20*****
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About TheWaveJournal.com
Surfing is more of an Art than a sport.
TheWaveJournal.com was founded in Encinitas, California, in 2008 as a Local Artist Network focused on San Diego Culture, and the Southern California Lifestyle. Based on Art & Simplicity, our original videos, events, and articles invite others to experience the creativity that each contributor lives by.
We wanted to remember the best times of our lives.When we surf, we are drawing lines on temporary canvases where the only object created is a memory. We wanted to remember these personal events to study and progress our creativeness in an easy to use, trustworthy, accurate surf journal. Thus, TheWaveJournal.com's online Surf Journal was created in 2009.
Write a Surf Journal to Remember and Learn about Your Surfing.
Whether you want to know where you've been, or find where you're going, recording your surf experiences will help you understand your "Art" more clearly......-what are my favorite conditions? - how much do I surf? -where do I surf the most? what board is the most fun?
The Wave Journal Online Surf Journal
Our free surf journal allows you to privately record everything about your surf sessions by doing most of the data collecting for you. You tell your Journal where, what, and when you surfed, and the Journal instantly grabs the applicable oceanic data from the closest available buoys. Review and edit your sessions from any computer, forever, using our secure, private, simple, and accurate online surf journal.
TheWaveJournal.com's Surf Forecasting Model
TheWaveJournal.com is dedicated to creating value for all it's Users, and so creating a surf forecasting model based on a User's Surf Journal entries was our next step.
Numerical Questionnaire
When you use your Surf Journal to document a personal surf experience, TheWaveJournal.com's Surf Forecasting Model applies the numerical questionnaire within each journal entree to that entree’s corresponding historic oceanic data. The Forecasting Model then monitors future data, and determines where and when you should expect the best conditions, every hour, for every surf spot documented in your Journal.
The Numerical Questionnaire Asks "How Much Fun You Had"
When you write a journal entry, the Forecasting Model asks you "How Much Fun?" you had during the session, on a scale from 1(meaning i didn't even paddle out) to 10(meaning It was ALL-TIME). Our Model then monitors available forecasted oceanic data, and determines where and when you should expect the best conditions every hour, for each of your surf spots. The more Journal entries with Numerical Questionnaires you submit in your Journal, the more accurate the Forecasting Model becomes.
The Wave Journal’s Surf Forecasting Model is free, and all information is kept private. Love, TheWaveJournal.com
Swell Direction
Understanding Swell Direction 
Getting Started
Start Your Online Surf Journal CLICK HERE TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT
Our free surf journal helps you privately record everything about your surf sessions by doing the data collecting for you.
Most journal entries every month wins
1. Create a private Account. 
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When it takes you to complete your Profile, click on the nearest beach to your house using the map, and then push UPDATE. The rest we will come back to later.
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Create the Board you just surfed. You only have to create a Board once, then choose from your Boards the next time you write a journal.
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Create the Surf Spot you surfed. You only have to create a Surf Spot once, then you can choose from your Surf Spots the next time you write a journal. First name your Surf Spot, and drag the map to find where you surfed, and click on the reef or sandbar inside the map, and push CREATE
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Create a New Journal entry
Choose from the scrolldowns of your Boards and Surf Spots. Tell your Journal where, what, and when you surfed, and the Journal instantly grabs the applicable oceanic data from the closest available buoys. Review and edit your sessions from any computer, forever, using our secure, private, simple, and accurate online surf journal.