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Mooring Dynamics

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Because of their inherent capacity of providing long-term series measurements of meteorological and oceanographic variables, a relatively large number of moored buoy systems are each year deployed in the world’s oceans.

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Berteaux, H.O. (1980). Mooring Dynamics. In: Dobson, F., Hasse, L., Davis, R. (eds) Air-Sea Interaction. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9182-5_36

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