Havana, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) Nowadays Cuba has cutting edge technology to achieve greater effectiveness of marine and hydrometeorological forecasts, in addition to oil spills’ management at the Institute of Meteorology (INSMET).
PROVIDING the country s maritime industry with accurate weather data as well as investing heavily in climate technology is vital to reducing the risk of losses while at sea,
The nation does not have an adequate number of buoys along the southwest coast for a tsunami warning system after two buoys were destroyed at sea, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said yesterday.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration developed a monitoring system using mid-frequency buoys manufactured by Science Applications International Corp (SAIC), the bureau said, adding that Taiwan joined the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centers’ (PTWC) observation network after it purchased a monitoring system in 2018.
If large earthquakes occur in Indonesia or the South-Pacific region, the buoy system transmits data to the PTWC and the weather bureau, CWB Seismological