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from space we realize that water covers

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most of planet Earth it is ocean waves

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that transfer and maintain energy in our

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atmosphere recently an international

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effort between NASA and the Office of

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Naval Research studied ocean waves off

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the coast of Virginia with aircraft

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ships and buoys it was designed to

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better understand how ocean waves

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develop and dissipate and how they

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transfer energy between the sea and air

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this information is useful in shipping

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ocean monitoring systems and weather

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much of what we presently know comes

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from research in wave tanks like the one

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at Nashua using lasers dr. northern Wan

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investigates the speed of currents below

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laboratory research along with few

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studies like this

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research vessel Creed helped determine

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how waves and currents interact the

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Creed is specially designed with

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underwater stabilizers and

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and it will see well making it a near

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perfect wave

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scattered throughout the ship are a

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variety of instruments that collect

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local weather and ocean data would

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create gathers information the total

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visits to a meteorological Dewar's in a

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because it made such an tunisians

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that's right we're eating a total item

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perhaps or six five or six feet remote

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sensing planes like NASA's c-130 can

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cover a larger area than the Creed in

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a year and have to be perfect even so

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there are exciting possibilities

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according to chief scientist dr. mark

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Donnelly the most striking of which is

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the ability to measure the surface and

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directional properties away from

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aircraft with what's called microwave

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radar systems that look down on the

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surface and either make in effect a

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stereographic map of the surface by

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sensing the elevation of aircraft all by

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scanning it's low properties in using

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that one instrument built by the

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University of Massachusetts produces

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circular radar scans that plot complete

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profiles of in researchers a color-coded

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roadmap of wave heights data from

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aircraft buoys and the ship give a high

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angle view of the study site during

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intense weather animation shows a

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storm's track with hot colors

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representing the highest waves being

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able to combine research tools like this

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will eventually

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to study

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the world from space with satellites