The Meteorological Buoy and Coastal Marine Automated Network for the United States (1998) / Chapter Skim
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5 Proposed Core Network and Recommendations
5 Proposed Core Network and Recommendations
Pages 56-63
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Because of the curvature of the earth, the preferred siting of the radars in the coastal mountains and operational requirements that limit the lowest elevation angle of the center of the radar beam to 0.5 degrees above the horizon, coastal radars may not fully detect offshore weather systems of critical interest to mariners and coastal interests. The only reliable way for forecasters to monitor rapidly changing offshore and coastal weather conditions in order to issue timely and accurate warnings of hazardous weather is through data received from the buoy/C-MAN network.
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coastal population is particularly vulnerable to the disruptive effects of coastal dooding, storm surges, intense extratropical storms, and TCs, and it therefore depends on accurate and timely warnings of severe weather. Coastal weather forecasters at NWS rely extensively on the data provided by the NOAA operated buoy/C-MAN network.
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The purpose of the proposed moored buoy addition in the Gulf of California is to permit forecasters to monitor poleward moisture surges associated with the summer monsoon of the southwestern United States. These moisture surges can be associated with widespread heavy convective rain episodes and dash nooding over the southwestern United States.
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monitoring environmental pressure, winct, anct SST conditions in a region critical to the passage ofAfrican disturbances that often grow into tropical clepressions ancITCs. Note that the ciata proviclect from the proposed moored anct drifting buoy acictitions will also be usec!
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The new modular design concept can produce a buoy platform for 25 percent of the cost of previous platforms, thus allowing for the deployment of additional platforms at current funding levels. In concert with the moored buoy array, selective air-deployments of drifting buoys should be planned and conducted to obtain critical surface observations ahead of and within specific storm systems, especially hurricanes.
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The dust-induenced satellite coot SST bias led to the conclusion that storm development potential was Tower than was really the case and is another example of why surface-based observations are necessary to complement remotely sensed observations. REVIEW OF COMPLEMENTARY OBSERVING SYSTEMS Presently no comprehensive plan exists within NOAA for integrating disparate observational systems that are crucial to weather forecasting and climate monitoring.
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The analysis will help identify priorities for platform and instrument installation, increase community use of data and forecasts, increase public awareness of the infrastructure needed to provide weather warnings and forecasts, and strengthen overall community support for the program. This analysis is part of a recommended strategy for modifying the existing MAROB plan.
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A further breakdown in the assessment of those at risk would consider populations without the means to protect themselves or retreat from advancing storms and the need to protect particularly vulnerable or valuable investments, say for reasons of national and economic security or public safety. The coastal population density and the magnitude of the seasonally varying coastal storm threat must be considered in any buoy/CMAN deployment, repair, replacement, and abandonment decisions.
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