The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is going to employ small crew less watercraft 'robots' to sail into tropical storms and hurricanes to gather data that will be used to improve forecasts.
The robot craft will help scientists to gain a better understanding of hurricanes by observing the storms from the surface of the ocean. The unmanned vessels will be able to record how water heat fuels a storm and how a storm meshes with the atmosphere – low-level interactions that high-flying hurricane hunter aircraft are unable to capture. Satellite communication will be used to transfer the data to the National Hurricane Centre west of Miami, Florida.
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