UAVs - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/uavs/ Preparing the nation for change by studying the ocean, earth & atmosphere Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:43:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOAA_logo_512x512-150x150.png UAVs - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/uavs/ 32 32 Unlocking the ocean’s role driving hurricanes /unlocking-ocean-role-in-driving-hurricanes/ Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:14:06 +0000 /?p=20239 Scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory are now focusing on what happens where the sea meets the atmosphere to help solve the hurricane intensity problem. The place right above where the air meets the sea is called the planetary boundary layer. The ocean drives global weather. By building on past research, scientists have determined that factors in the boundary layer and underlying ocean such as salinity, temperature, currents, wave and wind patterns, precipitation, are crucial to understanding the energy that fuels a hurricane.

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