Ocean Observing and Climate
NOC SPAR Buoy
Contact: Dr Meric Srokosz
The aim of this SOLAS funded project is to develop and improve parameterisations of wave breaking and its contribution to gas exchange.
A spar buoy was developed and instrumented at NOC to simultaneously record (by video) and measure
(by capacitance wave wires) wave breaking. In addition, the buoy has been instrumented with
a system developed by the Insitute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University
of Southampton, UK to quantify the bubble populations produced by breaking waves both at the
sea surface and beneath it using acoustic methods.
The buoy has been designed to be independent of the ship with deployment periods of up to 5 days.
All data is logged internally.
The buoy was successfully trialled on Discovery cruise D313 and further deployments are expected during a second Discovery cruise in July 2007.
The Wave Buoy deployed during RRS Discovery Cruise D313
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The Wave Buoy deployed in the outer hebrides
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