The BUOY E1

The E1 buoy, installed in Adriatic see at 6 km offshore Rimini, is the core of EMMA project and represent the fixed monitoring station. It allocates sophisticated apparatus to measure in continuum meteorological and oceanographical parameters useful to identify hypo-anoxic episodes. Operating since August 2006, it records every 30 minutes, at different depths: atmospheric pressure, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, fluorescence and turbidity.

Data, transmitted via GSM every 2 hours at EMMA's Local Information Centre (LIC), are daily validated and analysed, in order to be used into the forecasting model of hipo-anoxic events.

Results are showed on the buoy's website.