Real time data

Implementation plan

This project will deliver a strategic Wave Monitoring Network around England and Wales for Flood and Coastal Managers. The summarised programme is as follows:

Phase One (14th August 2002 to 31st March 2003)

1. Three wave-monitoring buoys will be deployed at:

Gabbard - 28th August 2002
Liverpool Bay - 13th November 2002
Hastings - 26th November 2002

(Subject to weather conditions at the time)

2. The first version of a new WaveNet Website with real time data visualisation will be available for review by Defra on 7th November 2002.

The next version of the Website with data from Met Office buoys and a data download capability will be available by 31st December 2002.

wavenet

Figure 1 - The data flow model for WaveNet . Data will flow from Cefas wavebuoys to the data centre and onwards to the website and the MO. Data from the MO flows into the Cefas data Centre and onto the web for stakeholders.

Phase 2 (1st April 2003 to 31st Mar 2004)

1. New buoys will be deployed in June 2003 at sites in

Poole Bay
Dowsing
Bristol Channel (the HF Radar calibration buoy).

2. All Defra buoys will be updated with new satellite communications that will allow more frequent wave measurements updates.

3. By June 2003 the complete Network should be up and running with ad hoc 3rd part data (Figure 2).

Figure 2:WaveNet map

Figure 2 - Map of WaveNet locations (both Cefas and Met Office sites) with the "at risk" coastline in red (from HR report TR177).