National Data Buoy Center team helps mariners to weather storms
The Coast Guardsmen at the National Data Buoy Center leverage more than 70 years of combined Aids to Navigation experience to maintain weather buoys on navigable waterways around the country. U.S. Coast Guard file photo.
JOHN C. STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. – A team of U.S. Coast Guardsmen at the National Data Buoy Center helps to maintain a nation-wide network of data collecting weather buoys.
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Coast Guard and NOAA work together to replace Northern California weather buoy
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Aspen coordinated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to replace a faulty weather buoy 25 miles off the coast of Half Moon Bay, Calif., Thursday.
Coast Guard Cutter Aspen moored at Sector San Francisco on Yerba Buena Island, Calif., Aug. 26, 2013. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Loumania Stewart
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Coast Guard, NOAA return weather buoy to service in Southeast Alaska
SITKA, Alaska — Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration personnel repaired NOAA weather data buoy 46084 and returned it to service in Southeast Alaska Tuesday.
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Maple coordinated with NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center to complete repairs on the buoy, ensure it was functioning correctly and redeploy it 29 miles southwest of Cape Edgecumbe.
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Southern California based Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb repairs vital weather buoys
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — Coast Guard Cutter George Cobb, working with technicians from the National Data Buoy Center/NOAA have repaired several key weather-data buoys and are now on station transmitting weather and sea-state data.
“These buoys represent a portion of the weather buoy constellation off the California coast, they are vital to gathering real-time information regarding the offshore...
Coast Guard Cutter Maple assists National Data Buoy Center repair weather buoys near Sitka
SITKA, Alaska – Coast Guard Cutter Maple personnel coordinated with National Data Buoy Center personnel to complete repairs on two southeast Alaska offshore National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather buoys, 46083 and 46085 and are now on station transmitting weather and sea-state data.
Data buoys 46083 and 46085 are are used to measure and transmit air and sea temperatures,...
