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First South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Project Cruise in Three Years

AOML Communications — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:45:49 +0000

After two weeks at sea, the South Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (SAM) project team completed its first cruise since June 2019!

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Researchers and Forecasters Team Up to Improve Forecasts in the New Hurricane and Ocean Testbed

AOML Communications — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 21:11:46 +0000

After a year and a half of concerted effort between NOAA’s National Hurricane Center (NHC), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), and other NOAA offices, including the Weather Program Office, the Hurricane and Ocean Testbed (HOT) has been successfully launched in the newly designed William M. Lapenta Laboratory, named in memory of the late director of the National Centers for Environmental Protection. This testbed establishes a physical and virtual collaboration space for researchers and forecasters.

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PIRATA Science Team Sets New CTD and Mooring Servicing Milestones in the Midst of the Pandemic

AOML Communications — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:28:03 +0000

On December 19th, after nearly six weeks at sea, scientists aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown returned to land and docked in Praia, Cape Verde, completing the PIRATA (Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic) Northeast Extension (PNE) cruise.

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Ocean Drone Sails into Category 4 Hurricane Sam

AOML Communications — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:35:42 +0000

For the first time ever, Saildrone Inc. and NOAA have used an uncrewed surface vehicle to collect oceanic and atmospheric data from inside the eye of a hurricane. On September 30th, 2021 saildrone 1045 travelled directly into Category 4 Hurricane Sam.

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UN Ocean Decade Endorses Several AOML Collaborative Initiatives

AOML Communications — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:19:12 +0000

In 2017, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the time frame of 2021-2030 as the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, also known as the “Ocean Decade,” to address the degradation of the ocean and encourage innovative science initiatives to better understand and ultimately reverse its declining health.

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Ocean Drones Brave Hurricanes to Make Coastal Communities Safer

AOML Communications — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Saildrone is announcing a new mission to deploy five uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) from the US Virgin Islands in August to gather key data throughout the 2021 Tropical Atlantic hurricane season. The USVs will be equipped with specially designed “hurricane wings” to enable them to operate in extreme conditions. Saildrones are the only USVs capable of collecting this data and are designed to withstand winds over 70 mph and waves over 10 feet, which occur during a hurricane weather system. The five saildrones will sail into the paths of hurricanes to provide valuable real-time observations for numerical hurricane prediction models and to collect new insights into how these large and destructive weather cells grow and intensify.

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Satellite Tracking Provides Clues About South Atlantic Loggerhead ‘Lost Years’

AOML Communications — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 20:32:39 +0000

The behavior and movement of sea turtles during their first few years at sea, known as the ‘lost years’, remains largely a mystery. Researchers from NOAA-AOML, NOAA Fisheries, University of Central Florida, and Projecto TAMAR recently collaborated on a study to explore the mechanisms of dispersal in Brazilian loggerhead turtles, to fill in some of these important early life history gaps. A previous study conducted in the Gulf of Mexico debunked the historic belief that young sea turtles rely solely on riding currents as a passive mechanism of dispersal. This latest study uncovers new drivers behind the travels of young sea turtles, suggesting there may be more of an ecological implication behind their behavior than previously realized.

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