PacIOOS Wave Buoy 189: Aunuu, American Samoa

Description

Wave buoy 189 measures wave height, wave direction, wave period, and water temperature in the vicinity of Aunuu, a small island off the eastern coast of Tutuila in American Samoa. Data are transmitted every half hour. Moored in water 55 meters deep, this Datawell Directional Waverider Mark III (DWR-MkIII) buoy is equipped with three accelerometers measuring north/south, east/west, and vertical displacements, allowing it to measure both wave direction and wave energy. The temperature sensor is located at the base of the 0.9 meter spherical buoy, approximately 45 cm or 18 inches below the ocean surface. Wave buoys are useful tools for forecasting local waves and are used by recreational and professional ocean users alike.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 This URL provides data access for this dataset. http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php/?station=51209
21 mcmanus.html http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/faculty/mcmanus.html
0 http://scripps.ucsd.edu/profiles/mamerrifield
27 http://pacioos.org
0 http://cdip.ucsd.edu
0 http://cdip.ucsd.edu
0 This URL provides a viewer for this dataset. http://pacioos.org/waves/buoy-aunuu/
0 http://cdip.ucsd.edu
0 This URL provides data access for this dataset. http://cdip.ucsd.edu/?nav=historic&xitem=stn_home&stn=189
0 This URL provides a viewer for this dataset. http://pacioos.org/voyager/index.html?b=-14.441965%2C-170.919796%2C-14.101253%2C-170.335118&o=wave:1::c52p0189p1

Tags

  • buoys
  • sea_water_temperature
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • temperature/humidity sensors
  • in situ/laboratory instruments
  • oceans
  • water temperature
  • pacioos
  • american samoa
  • tutuila
  • sea_surface_wave_period_at_variance_spectral_density_maximum
  • aunuu
  • pacific islands ocean observing system
  • ocean temperature
  • in situ ocean-based platforms
  • ocean waves
  • sea_surface_wave_mean_period_from_variance_spectral_density_second_frequency_moment
  • earth science
  • ocean
  • sea_surface_wave_from_direction
  • polynesia
  • significant wave height
  • temperature sensors
  • sea_surface_wave_significant_height
  • magnetic/motion sensors
  • wave speed/direction
  • time
  • wave period
  • moorings
  • pacific ocean
  • accelerometers
  • south pacific ocean

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