Sentences with phrase «collected ocean observations»

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They focused on the period starting June 3, 2010, when the riser pipe was cut at the wellhead by engineers, until July 15, 2010 — a timespan when a large number of scientific observations were collected nearby in the air and ocean.

The collection of larger than usual amounts of Arctic winter weather data in 2015 was due to two reasons: the Norwegian research vessel Lance was in the Arctic Ocean observing and collecting upper atmosphere meteorological data, and the frequency of observation and data collection was increased at some of the land - based observation stations around the Arctic.

Suomi NPP's job is to collect environmental observations of atmosphere, ocean and land for both NOAA's weather and oceanography operational missions and NASA's research mission to continue the long - term climate record to better understand Earth's climate and long - term trends.

One of these is NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland, or «OMG,» mission, which is collecting both aerial and ship - based observations of ocean temperatures and the shape of the seafloor.

This ocean data is based on 355 million measurements collected by ships and buoys, including 12 million observations obtained in 2017.

Historical observations collected from both land and oceans provide a vital resource for climatologists, who can obtain a better understanding of past weather from such records.

So, to understand the ocean for example you can make observations and collect data, but the only way you can do an «experiment» is «virtually» in a model.