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Alpena - Thunder Bay Buoy   Location: 44° 59.0406´ N,   83° 16.2648´ W,   Depth: 66.42 ft (20.245 m)

Conditions around 11:40 pm EDT on Thu, Sep 19, 2024 (03:40 GMT) NOTE: Italic values identify data that is not recent and may not reflect current conditions.

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Air Data:     Wind Speed: 6.75 kts (3.47 m/s) R.M. Young Wind Monitor Maximum Wind Speed: 7.66 kts (3.94 m/s) R.M. Young Wind Monitor Wind Direction: 169.1° (S) AirMar Weather Sensor Air Temperature: 68.6 °F (20.3 °C) CSI Temp Probe Air Pressure (sea level): 29.89 inHg (1012.17 hPa) AirMar Weather Sensor PAR Radiation: 0 umole/m^2/s Li-COR PAR Sensor       Water Near-Surface Data:     Significant Wave Height: 0.7 ft (0.22 m) Nortek AWAC Profiler Maximum Wave Height: 1.3 ft (0.39 m) Nortek AWAC Profiler Wave Zero-Crossing Period: 2.20 secs Nortek AWAC Profiler Wave Direction: 84.2° (E) Nortek AWAC Profiler       Water Temperature (near surface): 68.4 °F (20.2 °C) CSI Temp Probe       CO₂ (near surface): 158.34 ppmv Pro Oceanus Mini CO₂ Digital Sensor       Water Column Data:     Current @ 8.2 ft (2.5 m) Depth: 0.302 kts (15.5 cm/s), 293.9° (WNW) Nortek AWAC Profiler Current @ 18.0 ft (5.5 m) Depth: 0.175 kts (9.0 cm/s), 270.6° (W) Nortek AWAC Profiler Current @ 27.9 ft (8.5 m) Depth: 0.081 kts (4.2 cm/s), 332.8° (NNW) Nortek AWAC Profiler Current @ 37.7 ft (11.5 m) Depth: 0.168 kts (8.6 cm/s), 318.8° (NW) Nortek AWAC Profiler Current @ 47.6 ft (14.5 m) Depth: 0.141 kts (7.2 cm/s), 276.3° (W) Nortek AWAC Profiler Current @ 54.1 ft (16.5 m) Depth: 0.241 kts (12.4 cm/s), 20.8° (NNE) Nortek AWAC Profiler       Water Near-Bottom Data:     Water Temperature (near bottom): 45.3 °F (7.4 °C) YSI Sonde Dissolved Oxygen (near bottom): 101.11 %Sat YSI Sonde Dissolved Oxygen (near bottom): 12.1 mg/L YSI Sonde Phycocyanin (near bottom): 0.77 RFU YSI Sonde Fluorescent DOM (near bottom): -0.12 RFU YSI Sonde Total Dissolved Solids (near bottom): 136.52 mg/L YSI Sonde pH (near bottom): 0.00   (Suspect) YSI Sonde Chlorophyll (near bottom): 0.4 RFU YSI Sonde Conductivity (near bottom): 139 µS/cm YSI Sonde Specific Conductivity (near bottom): 210 µS/cm YSI Sonde Turbidity (near bottom): -0.4 NTU YSI Sonde YSI Sensor Depth: 66.07 ft (20.136 m) YSI Sonde       Water Temperature (near bottom): 45.4 °F (7.5 °C) Nortek AWAC Profiler Nortek Sensor Depth: 66.04 ft (20.13 m) Nortek AWAC Profiler       Engineering Data:     GPS Latitude: 44.984020 N AirMar Weather Sensor GPS Longitude: -83.271080 E AirMar Weather Sensor GPS Altitude: 578 ft (176 m) AirMar Weather Sensor Buoy Location Offset North: 0 ft (0 m) AirMar Weather Sensor Buoy Location Offset East: 5 ft (2 m) AirMar Weather Sensor AirMar Compass: 237.9° (WSW) AirMar Weather Sensor AirMar Pitch: 1.3° AirMar Weather Sensor AirMar Roll: 3.1° AirMar Weather Sensor       Battery Voltage: 12.3 volts   [May 15] iSAMI pH Sensor       Nortek Compass: 133.5° (SE) Nortek AWAC Profiler Nortek Pitch: 0.1° Nortek AWAC Profiler Nortek Roll: 0.3° Nortek AWAC Profiler       Solar Panel Voltage: 0.50 volts SPC Board Solar Panel Current: 0.036 amps Campbell Logger Battery Voltage: 12.24 volts SPC Board Battery Current: -1.281 amps (+=charging) Campbell Logger Current to UW Hub: 0.637 amps Campbell Logger Voltage at UW Hub: 49.71 volts SPC Board

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Steven A. Ruberg Scientist NOAA/GLERL	Ronald W. Muzzi Engineer NOAA/GLERL	Steve A. Constant Technician NOAA/GLERL	Kyle Beadle Engineer NOAA/GLERL	Russ Miller Engineer CIGLR
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