Chini ya maji robots in the form of gliders will navigate through the North Sea taking measurements, such as salinity and temperature under a collaboration between National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the Met Office for improvement in collection and distribution of data from the North Sea.
Vipeperushi hivyo vya kisasa vinaweza kufanya kazi kwa kujitegemea kwa muda mrefu huku vihisi vyao vya kisasa vyema katika kukusanya taarifa muhimu kuhusu hali ya bahari ya Uingereza. Data iliyokusanywa na glider itakuwa muhimu ili kufahamisha hali ya baadaye ya mfano wa bahari na mifumo ya hali ya hewa, na itasaidia kufanya maamuzi katika huduma muhimu za Uingereza, kama vile utafutaji na uokoaji, kukabiliana na uchafuzi wa mazingira na viumbe hai vya baharini.
Ushirikiano unalenga kukusanya sahihi zaidi katika muda halisi bahari data ili kuboresha usahihi wa utabiri wa hali ya hewa na kutoa uchambuzi bora wa hali ya Bahari ya Kaskazini.
The new temperature and salinity measurements by the chini ya maji robots will be fed daily into Met Office forecast models. This is part of a wider programme to increase the amount of observational data for ingestion into models run on the new supercomputer and will support the continuous work by the Met Office to improve forecast accuracy.
NOC imeshirikiana na Met Office tangu miaka ya 1990, ikitengeneza miundo ya bahari ambayo inasimamia maendeleo haya katika uwezo wa kutabiri hali ya hewa. Mafanikio ya mwaka jana yamesababisha Ofisi ya Met kuongeza mkataba na NOC hivi majuzi ili kutoa vipimo hivi kwa miaka mitatu zaidi.
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chanzo:
National Oceanography Centre 2024. News – State-of-the-art chini ya maji robots to play crucial role in weather forecasting. Posted 5 March 2024. Available at https://noc.ac.uk/news/state-art-underwater-robots-play-crucial-role-weather-forecasting
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