Data · dataset · 2026
Head of Placentia Bay Buoy
Listed in CIOOS Atlantic Data Catalogue
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
Links
Get the data
- ERDDAP Data Subset Form smartatlantic.ca/erddap/tabledap/SMA_head_of_placentia_bay-come_by_chance_point ↗
download · from catalogue cioosatlantic ca
Where it is published
- CIOOS Atlantic Data Catalogue dataset page catalogue.cioosatlantic.ca/dataset/38882a03-33a7-45b9-b2bd-916268f1e073 ↗
landing page · from catalogue cioosatlantic ca
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API catalogue.cioosatlantic.ca/api/3/action/package_show?id=799d488a-277c-4343-822a-897b7347c… ↗
metadata API · from catalogue cioosatlantic ca
Topics
- Stated by source
- SmartAtlantic
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| CIOOS Atlantic Data Catalogue | 799d488a-277c-4343-822a-897b7347c8ad | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · catalogue cioosatlantic ca | connector:catalogue_cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[topic].ckan_group:catalogue_cioosatlantic_ca:resorg_smartatlantic | source · catalogue cioosatlantic ca | connector:catalogue_cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · catalogue cioosatlantic ca | connector:catalogue_cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · catalogue cioosatlantic ca | connector:catalogue_cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license | source · catalogue cioosatlantic ca | connector:catalogue_cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | /license_id |
| publication_date | source · catalogue cioosatlantic ca | connector:catalogue_cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · catalogue cioosatlantic ca | connector:catalogue_cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · catalogue cioosatlantic ca | connector:catalogue_cioosatlantic_ca@1.0.0 |