A Wave Rider Buoy was Deployed off Seychelles by India for Improved Ocean State Forecasts for The Indian Ocean Islands
A Wave Rider Buoy was Deployed off Seychelles by India for Improved Ocean State Forecasts for The Indian Ocean Islands
As a part of the 'Integrated Ocean Information
System' for the Indian Ocean Countries Indian National Centre for Ocean
Information Services (INCOIS), Hyderabad successfully deployed a Wave Rider
Buoy, 27 Nautical Miles off a fishing harbour at Frigate Island, Seychelles. This is part of the technical cooperation umbrella of
the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard
Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES), for which India represented
by Dr M. Rajeevan, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences is serving as Chair of
its Executive Council. It is a follow up to the ESSO-INCOIS' Ocean State
Forecasting System for Seychelles and Sri Lanka inaugurated by the Minister for
Science and Technology, Dr. Harsh Vardhan in July last year in Delhi on the
occasion of the 2nd RIMES Ministerial Conference. Ocean state
forecasts are imperative for safe navigation and operations at sea.
The buoy deployment was accomplished in coordination
with RIMES and the Seychelles National
Meteorological Services (SNMS).
To ensure the buoy safety and easy retrieval, a
'Buoy drift alert system' has also been developed and implemented. All
concerned officials from SNMS, INCOIS and RIMES, will receive the alert, in
case the buoy drifts more that 200 metres from its position.
The
ocean data collected will be useful not only to validate the Wave and Sea
Surface Temperature (SST) forecasts from INCOIS for the oceanic regions
surrounding Seychelles, in real time
but also to fine tune the forecasts further. In addition, the data from this
buoy data will be analyzed daily to track high swell events originating from
the Southern Ocean and arriving at the southwest coast of India. These
observations will help in further strengthening and enhancing our capability to
predict the occasional High Wave events (Kallakadal) that often attacks
the Kerala coast causing damages to coastal villages and fishing boats.
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