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Data Buoys

  • Data Buoys collect Weather and Ocean data within the world's oceans.
  • Equipped to measure weather parameters such as air temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction and to report these data via satellite communications to meteorological centres for use in forecasting and climate study.
  • May be anchored (moored buoys) or allowed to drift (drifting buoys) in the open ocean currents. Data Buoys are coordinated internationally by joint programmes between the World Meteorological Organisation and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO within the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP).


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