UW APL has been testing microSWIFT buoy deployments from NOAA aircraft. This gif animation shows a successful test deployment over the Beaufort Sea from a NOAA Twin Otter. More information on the microSWIFTs is at www.apl.uw.edu/swift
The National Oceanographic Partnership Program’s (NOPP) Predicting Hurricane Coastal Impacts Project (NHCI) was mentioned in a White House press release.
From November 29 to December 1st, all ten NHCI teams gathered at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for the 2022 all-hands meeting.
Following the rapid-response air deployment of an array of buoys in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ian, team members closely monitored the data collected by the devices.