Mooring loads on Indian Moored Buoy Systems at Extreme Weather

Oceans play a crucial role in regulating the global ecology. As a result, ocean monitoring is critical for understanding and forecasting natural hazards such as cyclonic storms, tsunamis, and other natural disasters. To collect continuous real-time data, several platforms such as moored buoy systems, Argo floats, drifters, and gliders are employed around the world. Moored buoys give simultaneous meteorological, surface, and subsurface measurements. The buoy systems are susceptible to vandalism, bio-fouling, corrosion, and external environmental forces due to cyclones. The design of a moored buoy with a tension recorder to gather the in-situ load caused by wind, wave, and current on the moorings is described in this paper. The numerical analysis was performed with OrcaFlex software, taking into account the moored buoy system’s varied harsh sea environmental parameters. During the Amphan cyclone, the outcome is compared to the measured tension recorder value and a difference of 1% is attained.