ocean weather station

As defined by the World Meteorological Organization, a specific maritime location occupied by a ship equipped and staffed to observe weather and sea conditions and report the observations by international exchange.

Related terms:

• marine weather observation
• automatic weather station
• polar automatic weather station
• weather station
• third-order climatological station
• oceanographic station
• synoptic weather observation
• single-station analysis
• first-order station
• second-order station