INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC
COMMISSION (OF UNESCO)
WORLD METEOROLOGICAL
ORGANIZATION
DATA BUOY COOPERATION PANEL
DEVELOPMENTS IN BUOY TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATIONS,
SCIENCE AND DATA APPLICATIONS
PRESENTATIONS AT THE DBCP
TECHNICAL WORKSHOP
(Perth, Australia, October 2001)
DBCP Technical Document No. 21
2002
FOREWORD
The success of the technical workshops, beginning at the eleventh session of the Data
Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP), encouraged the panel to make such workshops a regular
feature of its annual session, as a practical means of promoting cooperation and information
exchange amongst all sections of the global buoy community, including buoy deployers, data
users and communication systems providers.
Consequently, a technical workshop on: Developments In Buoy Technology, Communications,
Science And Data Applications took place during the first day and a half of the seventeenth
session of the panel, held in Perth, Australia, October 2001. Twenty eight papers were
presented to more than 50 participants during the workshop. The texts of 25 papers and
3 abstracts are included in this DBCP technical publication. In all cases the papers have been
reprinted as received, without additional editorial intervention.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AGENDA
PRESENTATIONS
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
1.
Graham Warren, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia
Use of Buoy Data in The Bureau of Meteorology's
Meteorological and Oceanographic Systems
2.
Robert Caplikas, Manager, Vaisala Melbourne, Australia
R Hibbins, Instrument Engineering, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Reliable Wind Data From Ship Board AWS
3.
Andrew Watson, Supervising Meteorologist, Bureau of Meteorology,
South Australia Regional Office
A Moored Wave Rider Buoy off the Southern Coast of
Kangaroo Island, South Australia
4.
S. T. Gille, P. P. Niiler, S. K. Y. Elipot, and L. E. Romero
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093-0230, USA
Surface and Mid-Depth Circulation of the Southern Ocean
From Drifters and Floats. (Abstract Only)
5.
Susan Wijffels, CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Australia
Ming Feng, CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Australia
Results From a Pilot Argo Float Program in the East Indian Ocean
6.
Yutaka Michida1, Hiroyuki Yoritaka2 and Toru Suzuki3
1 Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
2 Hydrographic Department, Japan Coast Guard
3 Marine Information Research Center, Japan Hydrographic Association
Surface Currents in the Subpolar Gyre of the North Pacific
Observed with Surface Drifters
7.
David Meldrum1, Duncan Mercer1, Oli Peppe1 and Martin Doble2
1 Scottish Association for Marine Science
2 Scott Polar Research Institute
Results From Orbcomm Ice Buoy Deployments
8.
V.N. Eremeev*, E. Horton**, S.V. Motyzhev*, P.- M. Poulain***, S.G. Poyarkov****,
D.M. Soloviev*, S.V. Stanichny*, A.G. Zatsepin****
* Marine Hydrophysical Institute NASU, 99011, Kapitanskaya, 2, Sevastopol, Ukraine
**Naval Oceanographic Office, 1002 Balch Boulevard, Stennis Space Center, MS 39522-5001,
USA*** Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943-5000
**** P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, 117851, Nakhimovsky, 36, Moscow, Russia
Studies of Black Sea Macro and Mesoscale Circulation with Application of Svp and Svp-B
Drifters. Present Results and Future Plans….
9.
G. Loaec1, S. Le Reste1, F. Marchese1, A. Billant2, E. Le Marchand3, T. Swinamer4
1 IFREMER - Marine Technology and Information Systems Division - Brest - France
2 IFREMER - Physical Oceanography Laboratory - Brest - France
3 MARTEC - Brest - France
4 METOCEAN Data Systems - Darmouth - Canada
PROVOR: A Range of Profiling Floats for Operational Oceanography
10.
S. Pouliquen, A. Billant, Y. Desaubies, G. Loaec, F. Gaillard , G. Maudire
IFREMER, BP70, 29280 Plouzané, France
CORIOLIS: A French Project For In Situ Operational Oceanography
11.
Peter Niiler: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla CA, USA
Andy Sybrandy: Pacific Gyre, Carlsbad, CA, USA
Analysis and Improvement of Digital Minimet Performance. (Abstract Only)
12.
David B. Gilhousen, Meteorologist, NDBC Operations Branch,
Leader, Data Products Team, USA
Eric A. Meindl, Chief, NDBC Operations Branch, USA
An Update of Data Quality Control Techniques Used By
The National Data Buoy Center
13.
Sergey Motyzhev – Marlin-Yug Ltd Venture, Ukraine.
Elizabeth Horton – Naval Oceanographic Office, USA.
Practical Steps for Decreasing of Drifter Network Cost and
Increasing of Buoy's Data Quality
14.
Gary S. Bahret, Electrical Engineer, NDBC Operations Branch,
Leader, Network Support Team, USA
David B. Gilhousen, Meteorologist, NDBC Operations Branch,
Leader, Data Products Team, USA
Eric A. Meindl, Chief, NDBC Operations Branch, USA
Moored Buoy Losses in Early 2001 as a Result of Severe
Winter Storms Around Alaska
15.
Michael K. Burdette, Oceanographer, NDBC Operations Branch,
Manager, Alaska Buoy Project, USA
Eric A. Meindl, Chief, NDBC Operations Branch, USA
The United States’ Alaska Buoy Network Expansion
16.
Robert Heinmiller, OMNET, Inc., Staunton, Virginia, U.S.A and
Ngoc Hoang, NAL Research Corp., Manassas, Virginia, U.S.A
Stephen R. Piotrowicz, Ocean.US, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A
A System for the Delivery of Data from Remote, Unattended Platforms
Using the Iridium Low Earth Orbit Satellite System
17.
Christian Ortega, CLS, Toulouse, France
Bill Woodward, Service Argos, USA
Argos Data Transmission: Strategies and Performance
18.
Ron Fordyce, PMO Manager, Environment Canada, Hamilton, Canada
Tom Vandall, Director, AXYS Environmental Systems, Victoria, Canada
Improving the Frequency and Reliability of
Global Meteorological Observations at Sea
19.
Simon Skey, Axys Technologies Inc., Sidney, B.C., Canada
Mark Blaseckie, Axys Technologies Inc., Sidney, B.C., Canada
Reo Phillips, Axys Technologies Inc., Sidney, B.C., Canada
Val Swail, Meteorological Service of Canada, Downsview, Ont., Canada
Development of a High Accuracy Temperature Sensor
20.
Gary Williams, Clearwater Instrumentation, Inc., Watertown, MA 02472 USA
Measurement Of Sea Surface Salinity From An Autonomous System
21.
Mayra C Pazos, Drifter DAC NOAA/AOML, USA
Techniques and Procedures Used to Quality Control
Drifter Data at the DAC at NOAA/AOML
22.
Jeffrey Wingenroth, Technocean, Inc., Cape Coral, Florida, USA
SVP-Barometer Drifter Performance
23.
Pierre Blouch, Centre de Meteorologie marine, Meteo-France
Evaluation of SVP-B and SVP-BW Drifters from an Operational Point of View
24.
K.Premkumar - Programme Director, National Data Buoy Programme,
National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, India
New Developments for the Data Buoy System in India
25.
P.-M. Poulain1,2, A. Sybrandy3, M. Deponte2, L. Ursella2 and P. Niiler4
1Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA
2Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste, Italy, EU
3Pacific Gyre, Inc. San Diego, California, USA
4Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA
Direct Measurements of the Water-Following Characteristics of Surface Drifters
26.
Bernard G. Petolas, P.Eng., Metocean Data Systems, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
J-CAD (JAMSTEC Compact Arctic Drifter)
27.
Peter K. Taylor, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Ewa Dunlap, Weathervane Scientific Inc., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Val R. Swail, Meteorological Service of Canada, Downsview, Ontario, Canada
On the Accuracy of Wind and Wave Measurements from Buoys
28.
Tetsuya Uwai, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
Drifting Wave Buoy Using Orbcomm Data Transmission