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Platforms
- Cape Lookout Buoy
The Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill is working hard on deploying their new buoy. The buoy will go
out on Cape Lookout, starting with just a communications package. Later a
meteorological package and an in-water package (measuring temperature,
salinity, and currents) will be added.
- Surface Current Radar Observations
As part of a nationwide initiative, NC-COOS is operating a surface current
radar. Operating in the HF band of the electromagnetic spectrum, our long
range SeaSonde remotely senses surface currents up to 100 miles offshore.
For more information on the system on the data, click on the link.
- Sodar Wind Profiler
 NCCOOS operates the first Sodar installation on a coastal boundary anywhere in the world. The Sodar is a Doppler acoustic vertical wind profiler, measuring wind speed and direction at 20 meter increments of elevation up to one kilometer in altitude. The Sodar analyzes acoustic reflections beamed from an "antenna" containing an array of 52 sonic transducers. Currently, the Sodar runs in a break-in mode on Bogue Sound at the UNC-CH Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City. The North Carolina Environmental Observation Network System (NC-EONS) will deploy the Sodar permanently on a tower platform now under construction in Pamlico Sound.
- Jennette's Pier Observing Partnership
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Jennette's Pier Observing Partnership (JPOP) is located on Jennette's
Pier in Nag's Head, North Carolina. JPOP is a collaborative effort to
quantitatively observe the ocean and the atmosphere while providing a
surf cam and making everything available through a kiosk interface on
the pier within the North Carolina Aquarium section. The partnership of
NCCOOS, the UNC Coastal Studies Institute, the NC Aquarium Society, the
Outer Banks Boarding Company, SurfChex, and NC SeaGrant provides a look
at the current surf conditions, air temperature, humidity, wind, and
plans to add water temperature, currents and wave information.
- Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier
The Institute of Marine Sciences of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill has installed a real time platform for measuring currents and waves at the end of the Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier. Click on the above link to see an animation of wave and current data.
- Slocum Glider
 UNC Chapel Hill has also aquired a Slocum Glider from Webb
Research. This platform looks rather like a torpedo, but glides
smoothly through the water profiling up and down and measuring
temperature and salinity along the way. Currently it is still in the
testing phase, but plans are to deploy the glider up to 5 weeks at a
time while it profiles autonomously and telemeters the data back to
land via satelite.
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NCCOOS Operates First Sodar Installation On Coastal Boundary