[nws-changes] 20110810: relocation of Natl Data Buoy Center BuoyFwd: ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC

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Subject:        ADMIN NOTICE NOUS41 KWBC
Date:   Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:20:33 -0600
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Service Change Notice 11-28
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
1030 AM EDT Wed Aug 10 2011

To:        Subscribers:
           -Family of Services
           -NOAA Weather Wire Service
           -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network
           -NOAAPORT
           Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees

From:      Therese Z. Pierce
           Chief, Marine and Coastal Weather Services
           Branch

Subject:   Relocation of National Data Buoy Center Buoy
           44018 on or about October 15

On or about October 15, The United States Coast Guard
(USCG) has requested National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) buoy
44018 be relocated. Buoy 44018 is currently located
approximately 30 nautical miles east of Nantucket,
Massachusetts at 41.255 N and 69.305 W. The proposed
relocation would move the buoy to the north and west to
coordinates 42.132 N and 69.813 W or approximately 10
nautical miles east of Truro, MA.

The proposed new location will provide more efficient
response times in the USCGs search and rescue operations
in the area and thus, enhance its public safety mission.
The move will allow the USCG to react with more suitable
resources based on the observed weather conditions. Also,
the USCG believes the new location would provide excellent
sampling of northeast swells across the Gulf of Maine and
east swells from the Georges Bank. None of the measuring
parameters of the buoy will be changed, just the location.
A map showing the current and proposed locations can be
seen at the link below.

http://maps.google.com/?q=http://www.erh.noaa.gov/box/offic
ePrograms/buoy_44018_relocation.kml

The proposed location would place the buoy in a more
heavily traveled area which would also assist the National
Weather Service (NWS) in providing improved marine services
along the northeast coastal and offshore waters. The
Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen Association and the Steamship
Authority (provide ferry service to the island) have also
formally stated the relocation would not cause any
degradation of service in their opinion.

Further information on buoy 44018 can be found at:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=44018

If you have any comments on the relocation of buoy 44018,
please send, by September 6, 2011, to the following e-mail
addresses with the subject line Relocation of Buoy 44018:

Marine.Weather@xxxxxxxx

Mark.E.Ferreira@xxxxxxxx

For more information, contact:

    Wayne Presnell
    Meteorologist, Marine and Coastal Services Branch
    Silver Spring, MD 20910
    301-713-1677, ext. 103
    wayne.presnell@xxxxxxxx

National Service Change Notices are online at:

http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm

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