Tuesday, May 15, 2012

National Data Buoy


In class we had to go check out and read an interesting web site that let us understand and see all the different buoys arount the world, it will know where a wave occurred in a period of time, for example when and where the last tsunami occurred and where the highest wave took place you can also see the height of the biggest wave and the smallest wave occurring at a point in time. What we need to do with this blogpost is to find out where and the details of the smallest and biggest wave. We need to find the sir temperature, water temperature etc. And lastly we need to figure how are these buoys so helpful to our society, like boatmen, scientists or even us.




What I really think where the highest wave occurred is probably somewhere near the coastal area. I am guessing it occurred somewhere in Europe since it is surrounded by land and not many tsunamis or earthquakes occur in that area.
These buoys can be very helpful to meteorologists because they can find out what the weather will be like in this location, rainy, windy etc. It can also detect different disasters like tsunamis. This fact may not be very helpful to me since a tsunamis is very rare in my country, well impossible. However the people who really should be checking this website more are people who are on the coasts, they are the ones who re in danger of a tsunami. Buoys can let them know if the next tsunami or big wave is arriving soon. Lastly buoys helps us and scientists to study very well waves and their patterns on the oceanic crust in different places and we can get warnings of waves if our lives may in any way be in peral. Lastly, buoys are very helpful to other people especially to boatmen for many different reasons. First, because they show them exactly where they can go and fish or to warn them about rocks, waves or different objects in the ocean.
Understanding Buoys would have helped me if I had it in two different places. Even though there are some in seas and oceans, a bigger difference would have been better. Like one in an ocean and one in a small river or pond. 
Web site we used: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/


The buoy that i found with highest wave height was a buoy at station  64045 .
These are all the detail of that buoy:                                This is the buoy:


The buoy that i found with the lowest wave height was a buoy at station 42002
These are all the details of that buoy:                                                         this is the buoy:


       

1 comment:

  1. Excellent recap of your research! :) Did you know there was a wave recorded at 22 feet near the UK?

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