Sofar deploys Spotter Smart Moorings along coastlines

Deployment locations of Sofar Smart Moorings along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.

Sofar has started deploying Smart Moorings (Spotter buoys sensing surface waves, temperature, and barometric pressure along with water level from subsurface pressure sensors) in key locations in the Gulf and Atlantic coast to provide critical offshore observations (~20m depth) in tandem with cross-shore transects of USGS land-based water level observations to improve forecasts of hurricane impacts. Buoy data is publicly available here: https://spotters.sofarocean.com/?user-filter=3230.

A Smart Mooring is deployed by Ciara and Colin of the Sofar team.

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