Deployed off the coast of New Jersey earlier this week, the modified Wave Glider robot gathered realtime data from Sandy as the storm approached landfall Monday. Back in August, as Tropical Storm Isaac was churning toward New Orleans, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration experienced a near-miss. One of its prototype wave-powered Wave Glider robots--a proof of concept storm tracking ‘bot that NOAA plans to evolve into an entire fleet--was in the water north of Puerto Rico on ...
Deployed off the coast of New Jersey earlier this week, the modified Wave Glider robot gathered realtime data from Sandy as the storm approached landfall Monday. Back in August, as Tropical Storm Isaac was churning toward New Orleans, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration experienced a near-miss. One of its prototype wave-powered Wave Glider robots--a proof of concept storm tracking ‘bot that NOAA plans to evolve into an entire fleet--was in the water north of Puerto Rico on ...
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