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Platforms Measuring Barometric Pressure
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Number of operational buoys reporting on the GTS (2001/06 - 20016/04)
DRIFTERS BAROMETER DRIFTERS MOORINGS
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Platforms Providing Wave Observations
Timeliness of Data Delivery – Drifting Buoys
Country Contribution in Drifting Buoy Deployments
Platforms in Polar Regions
Density of Drifting Buoys in 50X50 Grid
New Deployments and Lost Buoys
Network Performance – April 2016Drifting Buoys
% coverage of 50X50 boxes( excluding marginal seas and 600N<latitude<600S areas) 56.5%
Number of active drifting buoys reporting (excluding polar regions) 1398Number of drifters deployed during the month 33% of drifters delivering data in real-time (average monthly delay <60minutes , excluding buoys in polar regions ) 42.1%
% of active drifters delivering air pressure data to the GTS (excluding polar regions) 54.2%
National/Coastal Moored Buoys
# of active moored buoys reporting data to the GTS 317% of active moored buoys with metadata available in JCOMMOPS 55.2%Number of countries operating moored buoys 13Variables disseminated to the GTS
Atmospheric variables (AT, AP, WD, WS each with25% weight) 69.1%Wave observations 82.6%Oceanographic variables (SST-50%, SubC-25%, SubT-25%) 44.3%% Network data availability 65.4%
Based on the GTS information from March 2016 received from MeteoFrance
Network Performance – April 2016
Arctic Buoys
# of active platforms reporting data to the GTS (North of 600N) 90
% of active platforms delivering data in real-time (average monthly delay <60minutes) 94.4 %
% of active platforms delivering air pressure data to the GTS 88.9 %
Antarctic Buoys
# of active platforms reporting data to the GTS (South of 500S) 148
% of active platforms delivering data in real-time (average monthly delay <60minutes) 23.6%
% of active platforms delivering air pressure data to the GTS 65.5%
GTS Data delivery format
• As of April 2016– 100 % drifting buoys reporting on the GTS in BUFR format– 35% of Moored buoys (Tropical and Coastal/National MB) on the GTS in
BUFR format
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Moored buoys reporting in BUFR/TAC - April 2016
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TAC/BUFR
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Drifting buoys reporting in BUFR/TAC - April 2016
TAC OnlyBUFR OnlyTAC/BUFR