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3: Navigating an ocean of data

3: Navigating an ocean of data

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Events in the Atlantic Gulf Stream have a far-reaching impact on global weather systems. Understanding them is key to predicting global carbon emissions. Saildrone create and deploy uncrewed, wind and solar powered ocean vehicles to report this data in real time in one of Earth’s harshest ocean environments.

Recorded remotely in March 2021.

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Saildrone’s website https://www.saildrone.com/

Saildrone’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/saildrone/

Richard Jenkins setting the land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle in 2009 at Ivanpah Dry Lake on the California-Nevada border https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRFRQXPtXTs

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