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Service Change
Notice 13-3
National Weather
Service Headquarters Washington DC
1050 AM EST Thu
Jan 3 2013
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From: Mark A. Tew
Chief, Marine and Coastal Services Branch
Subject: Disestablishment of the Coastal Marine
Automated
Network Station at Cape Arago Lighthouse near Coos Bay,
Oregon in 2013
The Coastal
Marine Automated Network (C-MAN) observation station
at Cape Arago,
Oregon, (CARO3) will be decommissioned in 2013.
The station is at
the Cape Arago Lighthouse at coordinates 43.342
North 124.375
West and is operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. In
accordance with legislation signed in 2008, the Coast
Guard will
turn the lighthouse over to the confederated
tribes of Coos,
Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians in 2013.
The observation
equipment must be removed to facilitate
maintenance of the lighthouse prior to the transfer. The
National
Data Buoy Center
does not plan to re-establish the observation
station.
Alternate
stations are available to obtain wind information. The
National
Estuarine Research System operates a platform near the
entrance to Coos Bay, (CHNO3) south slough reserve.
Efforts are
underway to use this station in lieu of the Cape Arago station in
NOAA weather
radio broadcasts from the Weather Forecast Office in
Medford, Oregon.
Click on the link
below to view the approximate location
of CARO3 (labeled A) and the alternate wind
observation site
CHNO3 (labeled
B).
http://batchgeo.com/map/eab3b4e0f05d80dc437dca25d7f2daf0
For more
information on station CARO3 please click the link
below.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=caro3
For more
information on the alternate wind observation site,
station CHNO3, click the link below.
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=CHNO3
Send any comments
to the following e-mail address with the
subject line: Disestablishment of CARO3
For more
information, contact:
Wayne Presnell
Meteorologist, Marine
and Coastal Services Branch
Silver Spring, MD
20910
301-713-1677,
ext. 103
National Service
Change Notices are online at:
http://www.weather.gov/os/notif.htm
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