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(RON - Rete Ondametrica Nazionale) 
 

In April 2010 Envirtech deployed the 15th, and last,  buoy of the Italian Data Buoy Network, formerly known as "Rete Ondametrica Nazionale" (PDF Paper).
Please see video clips about the buoys deployments.

The new Data Buoy Network, owned by ISPRA, the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research consists of 15 oceanographic buoys deployed along italian shores.

Italian buoys collect directional sea motion data, sea surface temperature, wind speed and direction, air pressure and humidity.

Gathered data will be available on WMO GTS, via WEB and on the Italian teletext service (RAI-1) .

LAST DATA COLLECTED
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WMO CODE

Location

61214 Ponza
61221 Cagliari
61208 Mazara
61209 Palermo
61210 Crotone
61211 Cetraro
61212 Siniscola
61216 Civitavecchia
61217 Ortona
61218 Ancona
61219 Spezia
61213 Alghero
61215 Monopoli
61207 Catania
61220 Venezia

To query GTS for charts and data quality comparison  respect the ECMWF models  please refer to the SURFACE MARINE DATA AND QC PLOTS web site maintained by Pierre Blouch from Meteo France.

More on IOC - Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) for Network Status, Google KML links etc.

At present our on line Database contains millions   records starting January 1999.To get connected to our database, please contact us at info@envirtech.org or visit the Italian Data Buoy Network official site.

www.envirtech.com

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The Italian Data Buoy Network
 
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The Italian Data Buoy Network consists of 15 oceanographic buoys, deployed along Italian coasts, on a seabed 100 meters deep. It collects directional sea wave data, meteorological data, sea surface temperature and in some cases quality parameters. Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) and hyperspectral probes will be added in the future.


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Advances in buoy technology for Wind/wave data collection and analysis
 
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Considerable advances have been made recently to reduce the cost of gathering meteorological and oceanographic data from coastal waters, especially for meteorological and oceanographic parameters such as wind speed and wave height.


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Wave measurements during range support January 2000

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Triaxys collected data comparison with a previous wave data collection survey using a Waverider directional wave buoy indicates that both buoys are acceptable for wave data collection. 


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Analysis of 12-year wave measurements by the Italian wave network

Rodolfo PISCOPIA, Roberto INGHILESI, Andrea PANIZZO,
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Also read in italian: Misure Strumentali di moto ondoso della Rete Ondametrica Nazionale: Analisi Statistica aggiornata degli eventi estremi

A modern directional wave measurement network is operating since 1989 around the Italian coasts. The remote-controlled buoy system is managed by the National Hydrological and Marine Survey with excellent results in terms of data acquisition rates, temporal coverage and reliability.  


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A Neural Network Approach to the Problem of Recovering Lost Data in a Network of Marine Buoys

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Neural Network (NN) technology provides several reliable tools for analysis in many science and technology applications. 


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The Wind and Wave atlas for the Mediterranean Sea

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Long-term climatological data over the sea are much in demand for a number of reasons, ranging from pure scientific knowledge to the important applications of, e.g., safety at sea and the design of sea structures.   The launch of ERS-1, and soon after of TOPEX/Poseidon, offered an unprecedented continuous flow of wind speed and wave height measurements.


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Wave Data Along Ship Routes in the Mediterranean Sea

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The calculation of reliable wave statistics for the probabilistic assessment of ship stability
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for the long-term probabilistic assessment of ship stability. We also discuss the problems and
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