Telemetry and Ocean Observing Buoy System

From: Sea Technology | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: Sweet, William V; Kinder, Jeffrey A | Copyright information

A New Buoy System to Support Storm Surge Predictions for Charleston County, South Carolina

To better understand the coastal ocean and mitigate its impact on ecosystems and communities, it is imperative to understand how the coastal ocean has behaved in the past in order to predict its behavior in the future.

This is the vision behind the Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observation and Prediction System (Caro-COOPS) initiative, a joint venture between the University of South Carolina and...

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