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Weather map showing pressure systems, a heat map with red, green, and blue gradients, contour lines, and tracking paths across the northern Pacific region.

CUSTOMER STORIES

How The Ocean Cleanup Uses Sofar’s Metocean Data to Clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Sofar’s marine weather forecasts and Spotter buoy data help The Ocean Cleanup understand metocean conditions and plastic drift patterns near the largest accumulation of ocean plastic in the world.

Aerial view of a coastal mountainous region with a rocky shoreline and a yellow buoy floating in the ocean.

OCEAN SCIENCE

Swell Chasing: Tracking a Wave From the North Pacific to Mavericks

In April 2022, a large wave unexpectedly wiped out the lineup at Mavericks, a world-renowned surf spot in Northern California. Our Spotter buoy near the break captured compelling data about the origin and nature of the massive swell.

Scatter plot with a colored density gradient from blue to red indicating data concentration along an upward diagonal cluster.

OCEAN SCIENCE

Updated algorithm improves accuracy of Spotter’s wind velocity measurements

The Spotter buoy's updated wind algorithm greatly improves the reliability of its estimates of wind velocity, particularly at high speeds.

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