Summary:
“The data from our buoys are a value addition to our friends in IMD as it indicates the path of the cyclone. We were only aiding them and this time too, the predictions were accurate,” said M A Atmanand, director, NIOT.The research lab has deployed a total of seven deep sea buoys and two coastal buoys along the Bay of Bengal. They were also the ones that detected signs of the system intensifying into a severe cyclonic storm. They are additional data that help us in our forecast daily,” said S Balachandran, DDG, IMD When the sensors installed in the buoys sensed the abnormal conditions at sea, they automatically switched from a normal mode of transmitting data every 30 minutes to a rapid mode of relaying..