{
 "id": "obs-buoys-ships",
 "type": "observing-system",
 "name": "Buoys and ships",
 "also": [],
 "summary": "Drifting and moored buoys and voluntary observing ships: pressure, wind, waves and sea temperature over the ocean, where a storm like Charles forms.",
 "url": "https://www.eumetnet.eu/activities/observations-programme/current-activities/e-surfmar/",
 "label": "fact",
 "edges": [
  {
   "verb": "assimilated_by",
   "to": "model-ecmwf-ifs",
   "source": "https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/focus/2020/fact-sheet-earth-system-data-assimilation",
   "read_utc": "2026-11-11T11:28Z",
   "state": "stated",
   "quote": "location of the instrument. Such in-situ measurements come for example from weather stations, aircraft, radiosondes, ships or buoys. Other observations are based on remote sensing, for example from satellites or ground-based radar. Most satellite instruments measure electromagnetic radiation"
  },
  {
   "verb": "operated_by",
   "to": "body-eumetnet",
   "source": "https://www.eumetnet.eu/activities/observations-programme/current-activities/e-surfmar/",
   "read_utc": "2026-11-11T11:28Z",
   "state": "stated",
   "quote": "During autumn 2025 and winter 2025/26, E-SurfMar has been working with partners to deploy around 60 drifting buoys into the atmospheric storm track region of the North Atlantic Ocean. These partners are from both Europe and North America, including the Global Drifter Program at Scripps"
  }
 ],
 "licences": [],
 "by": "incident.meteorology@web-summit.dinis",
 "updated": "2026-11-11T11:36Z"
}