Barometer mounted on bouy senses wave heights. As wave motion raises and lowers barometer, pressure differential is proportional to wave height. Monitoring circuit samples barometer output every half cycle of wave motion and adds magnitudes of adjacent positive and negative peaks. Resulting output signals, proportional to wave height, are transmitted to central monitoring station.
Oceanic-wave-measurement system
NASA Tech Briefs ; 5 , 2
1980-09-01
Miscellaneous
No indication
English
OCEANIC CONDITION MEASUREMENT BUOY AND OCEANIC INFORMATION MEASUREMENT DEVICE
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