National Data Buoy Center team helps mariners to weather storms

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. Five...

Coast Guard and NOAA work together to replace Northern California weather buoy

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 Designated...

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,...

Coast Guard deployment of NOAA buoys to improve surf and weather forecasts in Hawaii

HONOLULU — Wave and weather forecasters in Hawaii will be able to gather more information from three new buoys deployed this week by the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Kukui, possibly improving surf reports for North-facing shores in the islands.