DATA BUOY COOPERATION PANEL

RESEARCH, APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS INVOLVING DATABUOYS
PRESENTATIONS AT THE DBCP TECHNICAL WORKSHOP
(Trois Ilets, Martinique, October 2002)

DBCP Technical Document No. 22

2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

AGENDA

PRESENTATIONS:

1. Lucca Centurioni and Peter Niiler,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA
Surface Circulation of the Caribbean Sea Observed from Drifters1
1 Full paper is published in Geophysical Research Letters, 2003, (in press).

2. Andy Sybrandy, Pacific Gyre, Inc., San Diego, California, USA,
Peter Niiler Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA,
Dong-Kyu Lee, Pusan National University, Pussan, Korea
Salinity Observations from SVP Drifters

3. Pierre Blouch and Jean Rolland, Meteo-France
Evaluation of the WOTAN Technique on Two SVP-BW Drifters Deployed Near Moored Buoys

4. Mayra C. Pazos, Drifter Data Assembly Center, NOAA/AOML, USA
Evaluation of Drifter Transmitter, Drogue, and SST Survivability

5. Tetsuya Uwai, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
An Experiment of Drifting Wave Buoy with Long Trailing Rope

6. Julie Fletcher, MetService New Zealand, Ltd.
Recovery of SVPB Buoy 22445, New Zealand Coast

7. Ian Hunter, South African Weather Service, Pretoria
Effect of Drifting Buoy Data on Operational Marine Forecasting in the South African Weather Service2
2Paper presented by Louis Vermaak, Manager: Observations, South African Weather Service

8. K. Premkumar, Programme Director, National Data Buoy Programme, National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai, India
Real Time Data Communication Through Indian Satellites for Buoys Operating in Indian Ocean Region and the Expansion of Indian Moored Buoy Network

9. V.N. Eremeev*, E. Horton**, S.V. Motyzhev*, P.M. Poulain***, S.G. Poyarkov****, D.M. Soloviev*, S.V. Stancichny*, A.G. Zatsepin****
* Marine Hydrophysical Institute NASU, Sevastopol, Ukraine
**Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS, USA
*** Department of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA
**** P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Drifter Monitoring of Black Sea in 2001/2002

10. Eric A. Meindl, Chief, NDBC Operations Branch
David B. Gilhousen, Meteorologist, NDBC Operations Branch,
National Weather Service (NOAA) USA
A Method for Providing more Marine Observations in the Coastal Zone

11. P.W. Chan, K.K. Yeung, and Olivia S.M. Lee, Hong Kong Observatory
Experimental Use of A Weather Buoy in Wind Shear Monitoring at the Hong Kong International Airport

12. Ron McLaren, Meteorological Service of Canada
Mark Blaseckie, Axys Technologies Inc., Sidney, B.C., Canada
Operational Results Using Low Power GOES Transmitters in Moored Buoy Applications

13. Gary Williams, Clearwater Instrumentation, Inc., USA
A Comparison of WOCE Drifting Transmitting at 1 Watt and ½ Watt
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14
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14. Christian Ortega, CLS, Toulouse, France
Bill Woodward, Service Argos, USA
The New Argos PMT and How Downlink Messaging Can Work for You

15. David Meldrum and Duncan Mercer, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Scotland
First Results Using Iridium Satellite Modems For Buoy Applications

16. Bernie Petolas, METOCEAN Data Systems Limited, Canada
Using the Iridium Satellite System on a Drifting Buoy

17. Selwyn Alpert, Vaisala, Inc., USA
Vaisala’s New-Generation Shipboard Automatic Weather Station

18. Stephen R. Piotrowicz, Ph.D., Ocean.US, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Update on the U.S. Department of Defense/U.S. Navy/Office of Naval Research Program to Implement Advanced Telemetry from Oceanographic Platforms

19. Robert Bassett, Argos Data Collection System (DCS) Program Manager,
NOAA NESDIS Direct Broadcast Branch, USA
The Argos Data Collection System (DCS) in the NPOESS Era (a.doc) (b.ppt)

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TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS ISSUED WITHIN THE DATA BUOY COOPERATION PANEL SERIES