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OOI surface buoy successfully deployed.

OOI surface buoy successfully deployed.
OOI surface buoy successfully deployed.
OOI surface buoy successfully deployed.
OOI surface buoy successfully deployed.
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LaCapra, Véronique
OOI surface buoy successfully deployed.
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05/27/2016
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Image Of the Day caption:
This buoy is part of a Coastal Surface Mooring, one of the ten scientific moorings in the Coastal Pioneer Array of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Wind turbines and solar panels on the buoy's surface recharge batteries inside it, sending power down the mooring line to the seafloor. Sensors on the buoys gather meteorological data on the atmosphere above the ocean, while underwater instruments attached to buoys, mooring risers, and anchor frames measure currents, temperature, and other seawater properties. The data collected by the moorings are transmitted back to shore via satellite in near-real time and made freely available online.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 1, pg. 36:
At the Pioneer Array, sensors on buoys floating on the sea surface gather meteorological data on the atmosphere above the ocean, while underwater instruments attached to mooring lines and anchors measure currents, temperature, and other seawater properties.
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Photo by Véronique LaCapra
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