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    Weather buoys are instruments which collect weather and ocean data within the world's oceans, as well as aid during emergency response to chemical spills...
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    (370 mi) off the coast of West Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea. A weather buoy, named the Soul buoy after the soul music genre, was moored at the location. The...
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    A buoy (/ˈbɔɪ, buː.i/; boy, BOO-ee) is a floating device that can have many purposes. It can be anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift with ocean currents...
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    Drifting weather buoys outnumber their moored versions by a significant amount. A weather instrument is any device that measures weather related conditions...
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  • event, a weather buoy awakens and makes contact with a passing satellite, left in orbit to greet any lifeform that encounters Earth. The lonely buoy declares...
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    cheaper weather buoys. The removal of a weather ship became a negative factor in forecasts leading up to the Great Storm of 1987. The last weather ship was...
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    country-based weather services are surface observations from automated weather stations at ground level over land and from weather buoys at sea. The World...
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    stations, and, in 1977, the last United States weather ship was replaced by a newly developed weather buoy. By 1983, data was still being collected by ships...
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  • Intracoastal Waterway. Due to USGS weather buoy off Little River Inlet, the Little River Inlet is often referred to in weather forecasts. List of rivers in...
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    The Southernmost Point Buoy is an anchored concrete buoy in Key West, Florida that claims to mark the southernmost point in the continental United States...
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    marked by nine lightships including the Frying Pan, a light tower, and a weather buoy. The Bald Head Light and the Oak Island lighthouse have also provided...
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    mariner) or by using instruments like weather buoys, wave radar or remote sensing satellites. In the case of buoy measurements, the statistics are determined...
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  • (30 m) in height, but ocean buoy monitors recorded a peak wave height of 39 ft (12 m). However, data from a series of weather buoys in the general vicinity...
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    Meteorology (redirect from Weather research)
    barometers and weather vanes (for surface-level measurements), alongside advanced tools like weather satellites, balloons, reconnaissance aircraft, buoys and radars...
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    observations from ships, weather buoys, weather satellites, and numerical weather prediction have been used to diagnose and help forecast weather over the Earth's...
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  • 40 drifting weather buoys are deployed annually. The SAWS, in cooperation with a number of other entities, is actively involved in weather control research...
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    Special mark (category Navigational buoys)
    water) Sewerage pipes Intake pipes Submarine cables Buoys, such as a Weather buoy or Mooring buoy are coloured yellow or have a yellow light to indicate...
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    ARD - Bayview, Idaho Nav Source.org - photos of LSV-2 Cutthroat - Navy ARD - Bayview, ID Lake Pend Oreille Weather Buoy - U.S. Navy Idaho Scenic Byways...
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  • Scientists. World Scientific. p. 193. ISBN 978-981-02-0421-1. "Report on Weather Buoy Readings During December Storm — 6th to 11th December". Irish Marine...
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    Moored Array in the Atlantic (PIRATA) is a system of moored observation buoys in the tropical Atlantic Ocean which collect meteorological and oceanographic...
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    "GPS Week Rollover grounds Aussie weather balloons, Boeing planes". GPS World. "Effects of GPS Rollover on Weather Buoys and C-MAN Stations" (PDF). NOAA...
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    included within the Marine Weather Review section. Within or just after the Weather Logs, a list of ship and weather buoy observations with winds greater...
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  • after crossing the Equator at the prime meridian, near the Null Island weather buoy. When a ship must cross the Equator reasonably close to one of these...
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    A Single buoy mooring (SrM) (also known as single-point mooring or SPM) is a loading buoy anchored offshore, that serves as a mooring point and interconnect...
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    A surface marker buoy, SMB, dive float or simply a blob is a buoy used by scuba divers, at the end of a line from the diver, intended to indicate the diver's...
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    convey. Thus, Earth observation or weather satellite collection platforms, ocean and atmospheric observing weather buoy platforms, monitoring of a pregnancy...
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    USCGC Maple (category Juniper-class seagoing buoy tenders)
    USCGC Maple (WLB-207) is a Juniper-class seagoing buoy tender operated by the United States Coast Guard. She was based at Sitka, Alaska for 16 years and...
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    Longitude: 9° 04' W (-9.07) NWS buoy: 62093 M4 Slieve League cliffs Donegal Bay Visitors site Donegal Bay Weather Buoy Media related to Donegal Bay at...
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    USCGC George Cobb (WLM-564) is a Keeper-class coastal buoy tender of the United States Coast Guard. Launched in 1999, she is home-ported in San Pedro,...
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  • (WFB 33 (weather buoy)), and "WFB 32" on 8 January 1942 at 02:44 at 53°24′N 13°32′W / 53.400°N 13.533°W / 53.400; -13.533 (WFB 32 (weather buoy)) in the...
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