THE METEOROLOGICAL STATION

In many deployments of the SeaKeeper 1000 flow through monitoring systems, a standard meteorological station is included as a component. The photo below shows a mast with a sensor suite from R.M. Young. Generating, storing, and transmitting atmospheric data simultaneously with seawater data has clear scientific advantages in terms of correlating events interactions and relationships.

The meteorological data is typically split from the transmitted ocean data and submitted to the GTS system providing National Weather Services worldwide important additional sources of near-real-time weather information. Currently work is underway with JCOMMS to transmit all of the collected data through the GS in BUFR format so that it will be available for the Global Ocean Surface Underway Database archived at IFREMER, France and MEDS Canada.

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