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July 6, 2026
Extreme Weather, El Niño 2026
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Commentary: AI Merged With Human Knowledge Produces the Best Possible Weather Forecasts
Ocean Science
February 12, 2025
How Sofar uses data assimilation to deliver the most accurate real-time marine weather intelligence
Ocean Science
January 15, 2025
Why the Weather Act Reauthorization is critical for advancing forecasting and building climate resilience in the U.S.
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May 17, 2024
Spotter Platform outperforms peer wave buoys in independent field comparison
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May 7, 2024
Footprint of the air-sea momentum transfer saturation observed by ocean wave buoy network in extreme tropical cyclones
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April 17, 2024
Continuous peak period estimates from discrete surface-wave spectra
Ocean Science
February 14, 2024
Evaluation of ICESat-2 Significant Wave Height Data with Buoy Observations in the Great Lakes and Application in Examination of Wave Model Predictions
Ocean Science
January 30, 2024
Performance of moored GPS wave buoys
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December 1, 2023
Proxy Observations of Surface Wind from a Globally Distributed Network of Wave Buoys
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November 16, 2023
Harnessing Innovation: Reauthorize the Weather Act for a Resilient Future
Ocean Science
October 9, 2023
Estimating Directional Wave Spectra Properties in Non-Breaking Waves from a UAS-Mounted Multi-beam Lidar
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October 3, 2023
Constraining chaos: Enforcing dynamical invariants in the training of reservoir computers
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September 11, 2023
Estimation and Use of Wave Information for Ship Monitoring
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September 5, 2023
Airdropped Spotters make direct observations of Hurricane Idalia to improve existing forecasts
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August 29, 2023
Saturation of Ocean Surface Wave Slopes Observed During Hurricanes
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August 4, 2023
Ocean wave buoy network in extreme tropical cyclones detects the saturation of air-sea momentum transfer
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May 3, 2023
How accounting for instability in the lower atmosphere improves forecasts of extreme waves
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April 26, 2023
An Ocean Scientist explains... Vessel Performance Models (VPM)
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April 25, 2023
Ensemble-based data assimilation of significant wave height from Sofar Spotters and satellite altimeters with a global operational wave model
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