This year, as hurricanes race into the warming coastal waters of the U.S., an array of seagoing robots will be waiting for them.
The torpedo-shaped machines will be positioned in what amounts to no man’s land, places where no ships or humans might survive and where space satellites can’t gauge the potency of storm action.
But for the stubby-winged and narwhal-horned “Slocum ocean glider,” this is the world it was made for.
The mini-armada is one way scientists are trying to better understand how the howling storms are changing as warming oceans amplify their intensity and extend their inland reach.
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