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| image title | Automatic buoy |
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| caption | Weather reports from across the oceans are provided by a large network of tethered buoys like this one on which is mounted a Marine Automatic Weather Station (MAWS). Ten MAWS are deployed on the western side of the UK continental shelf down into the Bay of Biscay and they form part of a wider world ocean network. In addition to wind speed and direction, air temperature and mean sea level pressure, MAWS report sea conditions. |
| code | MI017 |
| Section | Meteorological instruments |
| Subsection | Surface-based instruments |
| image credit | © NOAA |
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Can measure a multitude of weather conditions and links to others strategically placed across the globe to give actual changing situations. Atmospheric pressure, wind, rain, swell, temperature changes etc