Weather buoy tropical Pacific Ocean helped study the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Moored weather buoys range from in diameter, while drifting buoys are smaller, with diameters of . Drifting buoys are the dominant form of weather buoy in sheer number, with 1250 located worldwide. Wind data from buoys has smaller error than that from ships. There are differences in the values of sea surface temperature measurements between the two platforms as well, relating to the depth of the measurement and whether or not the water is heated by the ship which measures the quantity. The first known proposal for surface weather observations at
The North Sea in Stormy Weather works of the Skagen Painters depict the beaches, Tuxen's painting is restricted to the sea itself. The Tuxens donated the work to Skagens Museum where it is now part of the collection. The North Sea in Stormy Weather The North Sea in Stormy Weather. After Sunset. Højen () is a 1909 painting by Laurits Tuxen. Although his paintings of Skagen date from the beginning of the 20th century, Tuxen is now considered to be one of artists known as the Skagen Painters who gathered in very north of Denmark in the 1870s and 1880s. The Skagen Painters were a close-knit