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Bay of Islands Buoy

Listed in Smart Atlantic

A 1.7 m. meteorological/oceanographic buoy supplied by Axys Technologies of Sidney, British Columbia is located at the approach to Humber Arm, approximately 1.7 nm northwest of Woods Island, in approximately 68 metres of water.

Description

The buoy provides near-real time data in support of vessel operations in this area.The buoy is capable of measuring a variety of atmospheric and water column conditions including: wind speed and direction, air temperature, humidity, dew point, barometric pressure, water temperature, current profile, wave height, direction and period as well as wave spectral information.

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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From keywords: Ocean & Atmospheric Science

Provenance · 1 source records, 6 field assertions

Source	Key	Last seen	Raw
Smart Atlantic	SMA_bay_of_islands	11 d ago	JSON v1

Field	Assertion	Extractor	Evidence
access_level	source · smartatlantic ca	connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0
concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric	mapping · smartatlantic ca	connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0
description	source · smartatlantic ca	connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0	/summary
spatial	source · smartatlantic ca	connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0
temporal	source · smartatlantic ca	connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0
title	source · smartatlantic ca	connector:smartatlantic_ca@1.0.0	/title

Bay of Islands Buoy

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