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Head of Placentia Bay Buoy

Listed in Canadian Integrated Ocean Observatory System Atlantic

A 3 m. diameter meteorological / oceanographic buoy built by AXYS Environmental Technologies of Sidney, British Columbia is positioned at the head of Placentia Bay in water depth of about 35m.

Description

The buoy provides near-real time data in support of vessel operations in this high traffic area.The buoy is capable of measuring a variety of atmospheric and surface conditions: wind speed and direction, air temperature, humidity, dew point, barometric pressure, sea surface temperature, current speed, current direction, wave height, wave direction and wave period.

The buoy is also equipped with an Aids to Navigation Information System (ATONiS) allowing direct transmittal of the buoy data to a ship's bridge.*

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Note

This site was originally located at Latitude 47° 47.4' N, Longitude 54° 02.9' W. It was re-located to 47° 45.5' N, Longitude 54° 04.5' W, with an upgraded buoy platform on October 11, 2013

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Provenance · 1 source records, 6 field assertions
SourceKeyLast seenRaw
Canadian Integrated Ocean Observatory System AtlanticSMA_head_of_placentia_bay-come_by_chance_point13 d agoJSON v1
FieldAssertionExtractorEvidence
access_levelsource · cioosatlantic caconnector:cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmosphericmapping · cioosatlantic caconnector:cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0
descriptionsource · cioosatlantic caconnector:cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0/summary
spatialsource · cioosatlantic caconnector:cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0
temporalsource · cioosatlantic caconnector:cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0
titlesource · cioosatlantic caconnector:cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0/title