At this point in the year, most of the real-time buoys have been recovered and now patiently await spring However, not all on-lake assets will go “dark.” The Great Lakes region has seen an increase in both winter-only and, more importantly, year-round observing platforms over the last couple of years.
The observing platforms that GLOS expects to be reporting data on Seagull this winter include:
- Several regional met towers, such as LKSPOMET, TBIM4, and BEACH2_T
- Wave buoy SPOT-30111R (Lake Superior) operated by Michigan Tech University (MTU)
- Wave buoy SPOT-31300C (Lake Superior) operated by MTU
- Wave Buoy SPOT-31302C (Lake Michigan) operated by Sleeping Bear Surf in partnership with MTU
- Wave buoy SPOT-31963C (Lake Huron) operated by MTU
- Wave buoy SPOT-32256C (Lake Huron) operated by Bruce Power
- RBS-TOL (Lake Erie) operated by NOAA GLERL