Data · dataset
Mouth of Placentia Bay Buoy
Listed in Smart Atlantic
A 3 m. diameter meteorological / oceanographic buoy built by AXYS Environmental Technologies of Sidney, British Columbia.
Description
The buoy is positioned at the mouth of Placentia Bay in water depth of about 230 m.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.
Links
Where it is published
- ERDDAP dataset info smartatlantic.ca/erddap/info/SMA_MouthofPlacentiaBayBuoy/index.html ↗
landing page · from smartatlantic ca
Documentation and papers
- Dataset documentation smartatlantic.ca/station_alt.html?id=placentiabay_mouth ↗
documentation · from smartatlantic ca
Catalogue records · 1
- ERDDAP tabledap access form smartatlantic.ca/erddap/tabledap/SMA_MouthofPlacentiaBayBuoy.html ↗
metadata API · from smartatlantic ca
Topics
- From keywords
- Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 6 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smart Atlantic | SMA_MouthofPlacentiaBayBuoy | 5 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 |