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NRL-developed Ocean Prediction System Steers Ice-Bound Antarctic Vessel to Open Waters
April 22, 2020 — The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Global Ocean Forecast System (GOFS) provided valuable environmental information on March 18 that helped a research icebreaking ship navigate out of Antarctic’s ice-laden waters... MORE

NRL Scientist Discovers Monstrous Black Hole Explosion
March 10, 2020 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers led a team that discovered the most energetic outburst from a supermassive black hole. ... MORE

Researchers Shed Light on Perplexing Bay of Bengal Monsoon Oscillations
February 27, 2020 — Oceanographers and meteorologists with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory concluded an ambitious field research program in collaboration with the U.S. Office of Naval Research aimed at understanding the role of the Indian Ocean on monsoon intra-seasonal oscillations (MISO), June 26... MORE

NRL meteorologist tracks transcontinental dust storms’ magnitude and impact
February 25, 2020 — The amount of dust flying out of the Sahara Desert each year is seemingly unfathomable. Every year, 14 million metric tons of transcontinental dust travels across the Atlantic Ocean, said Arunas Kuciauskas, a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory meteorologist who tracks and quantifies the Saharan Air Layer (SAL)... MORE

Navy gains a competitive edge with research into biological ocean swarms
February 21, 2020 — Tiny and frightening-looking creatures lurking throughout our world’s oceans can wreak havoc on Navy tactical decision-makers’ ability to sense the environment or plan and chart a navigation course... MORE

NRL’s remote sensing division analyzes ground characteristics in Australia
February 20, 2020 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory physical scientists, engineers, and principal investigator Andrei Abelev visited Australia in May 2019 to validate their techniques for terrain characterization... MORE

Smart Sea Gliders improve Ocean Observation and Ocean Prediction
February 18, 2020 — Scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Ocean Sciences Division are optimizing the placement of ocean gliders and the usage of glider data to improve the Navy’s ability to predict ocean conditions... MORE

NRL-built Camera Provides View into Sun’s Polar Regions
February 10, 2020 — The Solar Orbiter mission will use a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-designed and -built heliospheric camera, known as SoloHI, to provide unique perspectives and unprecedented views of the Sun’s North and South poles. The spacecraft, a NASA and European Space Agency collaboration, launched aboard an Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Feb. 9... MORE

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