Glider Collects Gulf Coast Data For Weather Forecasters

摘要

Scientists launched this summer an iRobot Corp. (Bedford, Massachusetts) Seagl ider approximately 24.1 kilometers east of Shell Oil Co.'s (Houston, Texas) Auger platform, near Flower Garden Banks, in the Gulf of Mexico. The research is a partnership among Shell, the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System and NOAA's National Data Buoy Center (NDBC).